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We’re heading for mass extinctions in the world’s most diverse ecosystem.
What we think we know, don’t know and things that might surprise us about climate change and the environment.
Africa needs to step up the protection of its tropical forests.
The positive story of palm oil that is much less frequently heard, especially in richer countries.
Conservation won’t be successful unless we work with people living at the forest edge.
How do the products we buy affect the world’s rainforests? In the lead up to the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit held in Sydney this week, The Conversation is running a series on rainforest commodities…
Palm oil plantations have an overall negative impact on biodiversity, according to research released this week. The study, published in Nature Communications, found palm oil plantations are home to fewer…
One hectare of land in a tropical forest can hold 650 tree species – more than in all of Canada and the continental US. This has left biologists baffled for decades. Now, with advances in data analysis…
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Professor of Conservation Science, Bangor University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds and, UCL
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Emeritus Professor of Biotechnology, University of South Wales
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
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Research scientist working on savanna and forest distribution, Université de Montréal
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Head of department of Conservation Biology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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