Most popular mongabay.com news articles - September 2011

  1. Authorities capture the biggest crocodile ever recorded (PHOTO) [14713]
  2. Palm oil, poverty, and conservation collide in Cameroon [8134]
  3. Background: the Lacey Act and the Fish & Wildlife Service raid on Gibson Guitars [5706]
  4. Old-growth forests are irreplaceable for sustaining biodiversity [4764]
  5. Children on the frontlines: the e-waste epidemic in Africa [4520]
  6. Loving the tapir: pioneering conservation for South America's biggest animal [4277]
  7. 62% of deforested Amazon land ends up as cattle pasture [3757]
  8. New map reveals the most biodiverse place on Earth, but already threatened by oil [2958]
  9. Could blockbuster animated movies help save life on Earth? [2792]
  10. World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005 [2633]
  11. Future threats to the Amazon rainforest [2202]
  12. Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film documents how industrial logging destroys lives [1866]
  13. One of world's rarest cats caught on video for the first time [1832]
  14. How to save the Amazon rainforest [1801]
  15. Northwest Passage open as sea ice falls to lowest cover ever recorded [1738]
  16. New plan to restore 150 million hectares of forest [1672]
  17. Nobel laureate and Green Belt Movement founder Wangari Maathai dead at 71 [1633]
  18. World's oldest person discovered in Amazon rainforest [1617]
  19. Sowing the seeds to save the Patagonian Sea [1574]
  20. Why is oil palm replacing tropical rainforests [1562]
  21. Logged rainforests are a cheap conservation option [1488]
  22. Global warming could doom the walrus [1472]
  23. Climate test for Obama: 1,252 people arrested over notorious oil pipeline [1444]
  24. Visiting the rainforest - a practical guide [1429]
  25. Dubai's artificial islands have high environmental cost [1418]
  26. Deutsche Bank faces money-laundering investigation over dealings with Malaysian chief minister [1400]
  27. Featured video: Sumatran species spring to life on video camera traps [1399]
  28. Activists worldwide push for leaving the fossil fuel age behind [1387]
  29. World's only pure blue lizard at risk of extinction [1325]
  30. Organic farming can be more profitable in the long-term than conventional agriculture [1303]
  31. Meet the just discovered 'Komodo dragon' of wasps [1267]
  32. Germany proves the promise of renewable energy: hits 20 percent renewables [1243]
  33. Endangered species trafficking: What did Gibson Guitar know? [1208]
  34. Controversial study finds intensive farming partnered with strict protected areas is best for biodiversity [1208]
  35. Indigenous people blockade river against 'murderous' oil company [1191]
  36. China's new forests aren't necessarily green [1182]
  37. Famine in Africa: Can Reforestation Improve Food Security? [1178]
  38. Mass walrus haul-outs, polar bear cub mortality linked to climate change [1167]
  39. Converting rainforest to cropland in Africa reduces rainfall [1139]
  40. Coral reefs decimated by 2050, Great Barrier Reef's coral 95% dead [1098]
  41. Secrets of the Amazon: giant anacondas and floating forests, an interview with Paul Rosolie [1097]
  42. Scientists confirm ancient Egyptian knowledge: Nile crocodile is two species [1089]
  43. The heroic wolf: are wolves the key to saving the Canada lynx? [1074]
  44. Indonesia to launch REDD+ agency to tackle deforestation [1072]
  45. Peru president signs indigenous rights act into law [1054]
  46. Tribal leader to the UN: Indigenous peoples of the Amazon are in danger [1039]
  47. Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges [977]
  48. Malaysian court blocks rainforest tribes' fight against mega-dam in Borneo [971]
  49. The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation [964]
  50. Demise of passenger pigeon may be linked to rise of Lyme disease [958]