BRAZIL
Forest-risk goods
Export-oriented commercial agriculture is the single largest driver of tropical deforestation, argues a new book
The spirit of los Haitises
Humans and forests stand at a bitter crossroad in the Dominican Republic, where conserving remnants of rainforests jeopardise the survival of …
Destruction as a way of sustainable farming
For centuries, the Iban tribals of Malaysia have cultivated crops by clearing trees, but without endangering the rainforests. At the centre of …
Timber tussle
Survival collars
Amazon project: fight over funds, sovereignty and forests
Brazil
MEXICO
Wielding the green whip
Mexico can't sell its "dolphin-unfriendly" tuna to USA. Japan faces punishment for exporting jewellery made of hawksbill sea turtle shell. …
McNamara shoots from the hip
Today's neo-Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent …
Debt trap
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka under pressure to let the US play a decisive role in conserving its tropical forests
El Niño effect: Even in drought-tolerant forests, seedlings more likely to die
Scientists study effects of drought, find mortality higher in evergreen forests than deciduous ones
60% of primate species now threatened with extinction, says major new study
Our closest relatives are being wiped out and it's all our fault
Soya poisoning
Messenger
Dying repositories of the world's biodiversity
Rich in flora and fauna, rain forests are nevertheless ecologically fragile. Their loss due to human depredation could result in environmental …
Shattering myths
The world's largest experiment in sustainable rainforest management is all set to shatter some age-old myths
Tree heat
Environmentalists give us one more reason to save the rainforests from being axed
Rainforest malady
HUNTING BUTTERFLIES
INDONESIA
A brewing invasion
Brazil lost rainforest the size of Jamaica in 2019-2020: Institute
There was a 9.5 per cent jump in deforestation of the Brazillian Amazon since 2019, in line with President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-…