WORLD RAINFOREST

By Rhett A. Butler  Last updated Aug 14, 2020

The Tropical Rainforest - information on tropical forests, deforestation, and biodiversity

 

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The Latest News on Rainforests

  • Scientists recognize a fourth species of giraffe (Aug 21 2025)
  • Trained sniffer dogs may have rediscovered a lost population of Sumatran rhinos in Indonesia. (Aug 20 2025)
  • How rain can reveal what lives in rainforest treetops (Aug 16 2025)
  • Indonesia’s idle land problem (Aug 13 2025)
  • What prevents deforestation? (Jul 27 2025)
  • Not too fast: The perils and promise of downlisting species (Jul 26 2025)
  • The cost of restoring mangroves (Jul 22 2025)
  • Videos capture an unlikely alliance between ocelots and opossums in the Amazon (Jul 19 2025)
  • Global forest mapping missed 396 million hectares of trees (Jul 14 2025)
  • The guardians of the Amazon who work without pay—and without fear (Jul 7 2025)
  • How one woman rose from porter to conservation leader (Jun 28 2025)
  • Camera traps and Indigenous knowledge help confirm presence of ‘lost’ echidna species (Jun 21 2025)
  • No contact, no conflict: Protecting South America’s invisible peoples (Jun 20 2025)
  • The Ugandan botanists climbing to save Africa’s forests (Jun 5 2025)
  • First-ever photo of clouded leopard eating a slow loris captured in India (Jun 3 2025)
  • More rainforest news