News archive
February 2010
- Plant Profile: Impatiens gordonii
- Philippines: Geo-tagging reveals mining threats on the “Last frontier”
January 2010
- IUCN: Species of the day
- Ecuador: Yasuni - the most biodiverse place on Earth?
- Madagascar IN PICTURES
- Reunion: Rare orchid pollinated by cricket
- UK: The Great Fen – last chance for endangered fen plants?
- Global: IUCN warns of 'extinction crisis'
- Nymphaea tetragona: A rare and endangered plant
December 2009
- Africa: All of a Quiver
- UK: Keeping invaders out of the Forest
- Sweden: Award for Congo champion
- Global: A new approach to the IUCN Red List?
- Global: Why plants matter
- Copenhagen: Nature has the solutions
- Australia: Red Gums - victims of politics?
- Africa: UK Government shows ongoing commitment to African agriculture
- Ecuador: World's smallest orchid discovered
November 2009
- Switzerland: Korea to host next World Conservation Congress
- UK: Potential to restore billion hectares of forests around the world
- UK: "More tree planting" say scientists
- Global: Maples under threat in the wild
- Amazon: Deforestation rate drops
- Madagascar: Kew team give live updates from the field
- Chile IN PICTURES: A conservation adventure
- Chile: A Chilean conservation adventure
- Guyana: Norway pledge investment in forests
- Seychelles: More news from an Island Paradise...
- Mexico: DNA barcoding the world's plants
- USA: Disney invest in rainforest conservation
- UK: A comeback 60 years in the making
- IUCN Red List update shows up global failure to slow biodiversity loss
- Over 12,000 plants on the Red List
October 2009
- Indonesia: Greenpeace sets up base camp in rainforest
- Bulgaria: Protected area threatened as it reaches 75th anniversary
- Atlantic Forest IN PICTURES
- VIEWPOINT: Forests high on the agenda again - really forests?
- United States under pressure to protect tropical forests
- Buenos Aires: WWF call for halt to forest loss
- Buenos Aires: Forget forests at your peril - IUCN
- BiodiverCity? Or the great urban extinction?
- UK: 10 % of the World's Seeds Banked!
- UK: Where have all the Ghost Orchids gone?
- Amazon: What price a beefburger?
- Asia: 100 new species of plants in the Greater Mekong
- The future of the planet depends on its forests
September 2009
- Rainforests IN PICTURES
- Capturing the world's rainforests
- UK IN PICTURES: Conservation in unlikely places
- UK: Ecology, culture and passion
- Standing up to plantations
- South America: Exploring the land of the Jaguar
- Borneo: Penan arrested while roadblocks come down
- USA: Save the plants, save the planet
- Kenya IN PICTURES: Scenes of devastation from the Mau Forest
- Papua New Guinea: Lost world uncovered by BBC team
- UK: Cutting down trees in the name of conservation
- Kenya: Appeal to save largest forest
- UK: Lower plant strategy for Wales
- UK: Britain's forests reveal their secrets
- Peru: UN tell Peru to ask for drilling consent
- Peru: One million acres of Amazon saved
- UK: 2009 is a good vintage for Britain's rarest plants
August 2009
- Borneo: New blockades as Penan block loggers with blowpipes
- UK: Wildlife crime not taken seriously
- Chocolate and cosmetic brands stand up against palm oil
- Colorado, USA: Plant Conservation Initiative and "The Forgotten Majority"
- Peru: Government investigates illegal logging
- UK: Wildlife returns to flooded bog
- Aerial photos show loggers inside Indian reserve
- Tree planting for at risk Bangladesh
- Disappearing monkeys means a shrinking forest
- Perupetro suspend Amazon auction till October
- More success for Greenpeace campaigns
- Brazil's environment minister to step down
- Himalayas: Vulnerable new species at mountainous crossroads
- The Burren: Invasive scrub threatens Ireland's botanical jewel
- The carbon debt of palm oil
- Call for action on UN Indigenous Peoples' Day
- North America: Forests and a beetle go to war
- Penan people fight back against loggers
- What's the future of Europe's last ancient forest?
- Alcoa to bulldoze 25,000 acres
July 2009
- Restoration ecology benefits biodiversity
- Timberland follow Nike's lead on Amazon leather
- DNA barcode for plants
- Soya traders extend moratorium on Amazon destruction
- First Australian REDD deal gets go ahead in Tasmania
- REDD Alert
- Sustainable Palm Oil gets boost in China
- The Prince's Rainforests Project
- UK woodlands changing
- Tiny fraction of EU budget safeguards wildlife
June 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
- Who's going to bail out nature?
- Maunder heads east
- New database takes conservation into the 21st century
- Crunch time for the environment
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
- The future of forest monitoring?
- Protection for "lost" tribes
- The plight of Papua New Guinea's forests
- Stuttering progress at UN biodiversity gathering
May 2008
- Wildlife in severe decline
- Scottish lochs and rivers at risk from invasives
- English Wildlife "under threat"
- Don't let biofuels invade, warn top scientists
