By Rhett Ayers Butler Conservation has long wrestled with a deceptively simple question: not whether to act, but where action will matter most. Forest restoration, protected areas, wildlife corridors, ...

The five Mekong countries lost nearly 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of tree cover in 2024, with nearly a quarter of which was primary forest, and more than 30% of losses occurring inside ...

Sacred sites are almost certainly the oldest forms of “protected areas” and there are still thought to be hundreds of thousands of them around the world contributing to global efforts to conserve ...

As professional foresters, we're astonished by the commercial forestry proposed for more than 80% of the conservation area.

Conservation has never lacked ideas. Protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, community management, certification schemes, and public campaigns have all been promoted as solutions to ...

Floodplains face increasing pressure: currently protected areas will not be sufficient to preserve the species living in them in the future, a review study conducted under the direction of the Swiss ...

Tropical forests host an estimated 62% of global terrestrial vertebrate species on less than 20% of the Earth's land area and provide resources that directly benefit ~1.5 billion people throughout the ...

The agency said it’s reassessing an aspen restoration project at the Ashley National Forest that would have included logging in some areas covered by the roadless area conservation rule. The Forest ...