rainforest

The past year has been a momentous time for the world’s forests, with both good and bad news.

Jaco, Costa Rica is a perfect vacation place as it has something for everyone. Lush rainforests abut sand beaches with hiking, surfing, ziplining

What big teeth you have, my dear! The better to eat insects with—and make one’s own ecological niche. Scientists have uncovered a new bat with stupendous canines in the rainforests of Lao PDR and Vietnam, aptly naming it Hypsugo dolichodon, or the long-toothed pipistrelle.

The Brazilian government has released footage showing ‘first contact’ with an isolated group of indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest.

Dr. Douglas Sheil on forest conservation: “Combine democracy with modern communication technology and improved information access, and it seems that governments will increasingly be held accountable. So will conservation.”

A technology that uses discarded mobile phones to create a real-time alert system against logging and poaching will soon be deployed in the endangered rainforests of Central Africa.

Greenpeace showed through a recently published two-year, in-depth investigation just how rampant timber laundering is in the Amazon in Brazil.

Monitoring the populations of “uncontacted” tribes via Google Earth satellite images may be a noninvasive way help insure the survival of indigenous Brazilian villages.

Deforestation and fragmentation of forests in the Amazon help create tinderbox conditions for wildfires in remnant forests and contribute to rapid and widespread loss of trees during drought years, researchers say.