Most popular mongabay.com news articles - September 2009

  1. Mystery 'alien-beast' in Panama is likely a sloth [15302]
  2. Alleged chupacabra likely a "Xolo" dog; story a hoax [9414]
  3. Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon [6314]
  4. World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005 [5698]
  5. New species everywhere in Papua New Guinea's 'lost' volcano [5442]
  6. Apple's Snow Leopard helps real-life cats [5106]
  7. To reproduce, parasite transforms ant into juicy red berry [3659]
  8. Kenya's pain: famine, drought, government ambivalence cripples once stable nation [2253]
  9. World Bank's IFC suspends lending to palm oil companies [1989]
  10. Dubai's artificial islands have high environmental cost [1973]
  11. Why is oil palm replacing tropical rainforests [1730]
  12. Coral reefs decimated by 2050, Great Barrier Reef's coral 95% dead [1525]
  13. Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak [1459]
  14. Social causes of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest [1423]
  15. Fashion labels drop APP after party highlights the plight of Indonesian forests [1207]
  16. Sheikh goes from collector to conservationist in effort to save the world's rarest parrot [1197]
  17. Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra [1195]
  18. Saving Africa's 'unicorn', the okapi [1176]
  19. How to save the Amazon rainforest [1110]
  20. Future threats to the Amazon rainforest [1085]
  21. Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist [966]
  22. Saving the last megafauna of Malaysia, an interview with Reuben Clements [964]
  23. Summer sea ice likely to disappear in the Arctic by 2015 [948]
  24. Dangers for journalists who expose environmental issues [911]
  25. Appalling photos reveal lemur carnage in Madagascar [warning: graphic images] [868]
  26. Mining and biodiversity offsets in Madagascar: Conservation or 'Conservation Opportunities?' [827]
  27. Biomimetics, technology that mimics nature [796]
  28. Tourism in Madagascar; Visiting the World's Most Unusual Island [793]
  29. Oil company impacts indigenous tribes, wildlife in Ecuadorian Amazon [792]
  30. Photos: snow leopard in Afghanistan [781]
  31. New carnivorous plant big enough to swallow a rat [779]
  32. Visiting the rainforest - a practical guide [778]
  33. Could a hurricane hit California? [770]
  34. Three new species discovered in mile-long underwater cave [765]
  35. Vietnam outsources deforestation to neighboring countries [762]
  36. 20% of land deforested in the Brazilian Amazon is regrowing forest [762]
  37. Will tropical trees survive climate change?, an interview with Kenneth J. Feeley [747]
  38. Employing dogs to save endangered species and places, an interview with Megan Parker [744]
  39. Tiny monkey species discovered in the Amazon rainforest [738]
  40. Palm oil developers in Papua New Guinea accused of deception in dealing with communities [738]
  41. Britain bans palm oil ad campaign [697]
  42. Brazil's plan to save the Amazon rainforest [694]
  43. Activists target Brazil's largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching [640]
  44. Cane toads increasingly a problem in Australia [620]
  45. New killer snake invades Florida [614]
  46. Ecosystems in the Philippines bounce back from the brink [602]
  47. Discovering nature's wonder in order to save it, an interview with Jaboury Ghazoul [591]
  48. Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction [585]
  49. Germany to pay Ecuador $650 million to forgo oil drilling, protect rainforest reserve [567]
  50. Working to save the 'living dead' in the Atlantic Forest, an interview with Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes [556]
  51. World's only pure blue lizard at risk of extinction [554]