Rainforest

Volunteers uncover over 650 species including the Gibellula fungus during wildlife surveys for rainforest restoration project in West Cowal.

How fossil fuels are destroying biodiversity and Indigenous people’s rights.

Meet the next generation of Indigenous Earth defenders.

Small trees that grow up in drought conditions could form the basis of more drought-resistant rainforests, new research suggests.

Legal experts ClientEarth welcome new Forest Code from the Republic of Congo government.

The story of deforestation is also the story of the globalisation.

New documentary, Second Chances, shows how even the most unlikely people can become environmental defenders.

The Amazon fire crisis has been 500 years in the making – as Brazil’s indigenous people know only too well.

Combine latest technology with local knowledge and the picture becomes clear, a comprehensive story of life on the rainforest floor.

Stripping OSINFOR of independence is a major step back in protecting the Peruvian Amazon.

The Ecuadorian government is in the process of auctioning off eight million acres of largely virgin rainforest to oil companies.

The rainforest contains eight World Heritage Sites and is critical to fighting climate change. But recent moves by the DRC government have conservationists worried. JOE SANDLER CLARKE reports for UNEARTED

The threat to our existence from the destruction of rainforests is well documented. And across the globe the battle to save them continues. JACK DAVIES reports on how the lush forests of Cambodia continue to suffer at the hands of the illegal timber trade

After decades of travelling the globe documenting environmental issues, UK photographer Edward Parker has turned his lens closer to home with a new book on the Ancient Trees of the National Trust. He talks to Arts Editor, GARY COOK

An encounter with a Colombian shaman led Peter Bunyard on a spiritual journey into and beyond the living, breathing, transpiring Amazon rainforest, providing key insights into the essential role of the great tropical forests in the workings of Gaia. He emerged re-energised from his visions - and inspired to redouble his efforts to save our wondrous planet.

An Indonesian palm oil company has been convicted of large-scale burning of protected swamp forest in Aceh - home to some of Sumatra's last orangutans.

Water, food supplies and energy production are all in jeopardy as the Amazon forest is felled for profit. And as Paul Brown writes, the damage is spreading well beyond Amazonia itself ...

This month in Sumatra, Indonesia, 1,500 armed men demolished four indigenous villages and displaced inhabitants who were not willing to surrender their land to a palm oil company.

Lone Droscher Nielsen addressed the Oxfordshire village of Wootton about the deforestation that is pushing orangutans towards extinction - all driven by the world's hunger for palm oil. Andy Morgan was deeply moved ...

Poet Lorna Crozier vists the Great Bear Rainforest in BC, Canada and finds a fragile paradise imbued with myth, meaning and magic for local indigenous peoples.

After a significant drop in the last several years, the annual deforestation rates in Brazil raised 28% for the period August 2012-July 2013, according to INPE, the Brazilian Spatial Institute.

"Most of the recently discovered plants and animals are thought to be endemic to small parts of the Amazon rainforest."

Thanks to climate change the southern Amazon rainforest is "drying out", say US researchers.

Politicians deny the existence of isolated tribes like the Mashco-Piro as oil, gas and logging exploration increasingly encroaches on their forest territory