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Despite threats to habitat, new photos provide hope for endangered Javan Leopard
“Beautiful, isn’t he?” beams Age Kridalaksana, a young Indonesian ecologist in a research station nestled in the thickly forested hills of Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park, an expanse of mountainous tropical rainforest on the...
As forests disappear, Indonesia must monitor big cats to reduce human wildlife conflict, says scientist
As Indonesia’s national parks face threats from deforestation and human encroachment, it’s vital that tigers, leopards and other large mammals be monitored as part of conservation efforts – otherwise clashes with people will...
NOW: Sustainable forests management in Central Africa
Central Africa is home to the second largest continuous block of rainforest on the planet after the Amazon Basin. The area hosts a wealth of biodiversity and provides vital regional and global ecological services.
Beyond carbon storage: the Congo Basin forest as rainmaker
Recent studies show how the Congo Basin forests help to generate rainfall both locally and on a sub-continental scale. Destruction of these extensive forests could severely disrupt this process.
Can REDD+ drive change in DR Congo?
Implementing a U.N.-backed scheme to slow forest loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be difficult, a new study says, until the government addresses corruption, a lack of state authority in some regions, and intermittent...
