The president has previously floated the idea of opening up protected rainforest areas to agriculture, a highly controversial move

Brazil’s rich biodiversity is under attack from multiple fronts

Tanzania faces the challenge of conserving forests in a developing country with a rapidly expanding population.

Four years of scientific expeditions have uncovered previously unknown animals and plants in the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.

Greenpeace says British consumers are unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the Amazon rainforest by buying meat products from Tesco.

All eyes are fixed on Brazil’s president as she considers a forest code that could spell the end of vital parts of the Amazon and other forests.

India’s forests have long been at the centre of a development-versus-conservation debate in the rising Asian power.

Vast swathes of the western Amazon are to be opened up for oil and gas exploration, putting some of the planet’s most biodiverse forests at risk.

Amazing pictures showed a handful of warriors from an ”undiscovered tribe” on the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Or so the story was told and sold.