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Wildlife don’t recognize borders, nor does climate change. Conservation should keep up
A set of studies focused on the China-Vietnam border demonstrates that the impacts of climate change will make transboundary conservation even more important for endangered species like the Cao-Vit gibbon and tiger geckos.
Cocoa and gunshots: The struggle to save a threatened forest in Nigeria
Nigeria's Omo Forest Reserve provides important habitat for animals such as forest elephants, as well as drinking water for the city of Lagos.But the reserve has been severely deforested.
Congo government opens Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to oil exploration
Conservationists were alarmed that the government would consider opening up parks and peatlands of international importance for oil exploration.
Agriculture, mining, hunting push critically endangered gorillas to the brink
Congo serves as an essential carbon sink, storing an estimated 22.9 gigatons of carbon and is also one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots.
Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo
In the heart of Indonesian Borneo, a dwindling population of orangutans is getting a new lease on life thanks to a group of wildlife rescuers and medical professionals who have joined forces.
For these birds, climate change spells a rise in fatal conflicts
Researchers have found yet another way in which climate change has been detrimental to migrating birds.
Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis
Orangutans face a bleak future in Borneo, hammered by habitat loss to plantations and mines, poached for the illegal pet trade, and exterminated by farmers.