News archive
November 2011
October 2011
- UK: Director of Kew to return to Australia after six years
- Borneo: Scientists work hand-in-hand with loggers to investigate forest fragments
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
- Seychelles: First country in world to protect half of its territory
- Global: The Red List of Rhododendrons
- UK: Mapping the UK palm oil supply chain
April 2011
March 2011
- Global: Calling all nature photographers, IUCN
- UK: The first in-depth study of a rare juniper
- Philippines: Tragedy in Palawan unites environmental campaigners
- Global: Beautiful film launches International Year of Forests
February 2011
- South Africa: Proposed reforms in cycad trade may not go far enough
- UK: Charities say the fight is not yet over for England's woods
- UK: Unceremonious retreat on the great forest sale
- Global: State of the world's forests 2011
- Brazil: First photos of uncontacted tribe deep in the Amazon
December 2010
- Review: Discoveries of 2010
- Mozambique: Kew find new mistletoe from slopes of Mount Mabu
- Mexico: Hopeful end to Cancun climate talks
- Norway: Money pledged to save crop wild relatives
- UK: Mistletoe under threat says National Trust
- Mexico: Call to reverse the world's degraded forests
- UK IN PICTURES: Botanical rarities from Breckland
- UK: Glorious diversity found in ancient farming landscape
- UK: The Atlantic Forest comes to chilly Britain
November 2010
- UK: A rare fungus and the forgotten Kingdom
- Indonesia: Forests to fall in the name of climate?
- UK: Richard Mabey in conversation with Stephen Hopper
- Cambodia: New pitcher plant from remote Cardamom Mountains
- India: Survival's "real Avatar" film scoops award
- Seychelles: Latest conservation news from the islands
- UK: The flower of the fields that marks Remembrance Day
- Indonesia: Greenpeace urge Obama to support forests
- Indonesia: Round Table talks begin while palm oil production rises
- Philippines: Expanding Oil Palm aggression in Palawan Reserve
- Global: BGCI celebrate strengthened GSPC
- Japan: COP10 ends on a relative high
October 2010
- Asia: The state of plant conservation
- Costa Rica: Country receives prestigious award for biodiversity laws
- UK: The great forest sale?
- Japan: Conservation organisations take opportunity to speak out
- Global: Implementing GSPC Target 8, a report by BGCI
- Japan: Honest, but optimistic, opening statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf
- Japan: Biodiversity summit opens
- Brazil: Community botany in the heart of the Amazon
- UK: Funding in the bank for woodland home of rare plant
- Kenya: Threatened grasslands protected on Kinangop Plateau
- Papua New Guinea: Incredible new species from remote mountain range
- Brazil: Green Party candidate polls well in Presidential first round vote
- The Sampled Red List IN PICTURES
September 2010
- Global: Important study of world’s plants shows strength of UK science
- UK: Nepalese Ambassador visits RBGE
- South America: Re-writing the history of Andean Dry Forests
- UK: New book for woodland managers
- Philippines: Major setback in Palawan campaign
- Global: World species list under review
- Mexico IN PICTURES: The Ahuehuete Tree
- UK: On Her Majesty's Botanical Service
- UK: The fall and continued rise of a rare sedge
- Global: Which plant species would you save?
- UK: Blue pimpernel found flourishing
- UK: Managing water for life
- USA: New logo for Conservation International
- Global: A fair deal for wild collected plants?
- UK: PlantNetwork gets to grips with contemporary issues
- Hawai‘i: Extinct is forever (but not for this lobelia)
- USA: Losing Paradise travels on to Smithsonian
- Africa: Freshwater species under threat
- Global: World's first society for fungal conservation
- UK: Is it getting too warm for the Tufted Saxifrage?
August 2010
- Italy: Endangered sedge is treated to a new home
- UK: First centaury sighting in half a century
- UK: Unusual fungus found in bamboo plant
- Japan: Two short months till Nagoya and COP 10
- Ascension Island: Hooker’s lost parsley fern found on mountain
- Russia: Help save the Pavlovsk genebank
- UK: The end of tradition?
- UK IN PICTURES: Wild about summer
- Brazil: Magagascan rainforest and the Everglades 'at risk'
- Ecuador: Historic $3.6 bn deal keeps rainforest above the oil
- Philippines: Initial victory for NGOs and Indigenous people in Palawan
- Ecuador: Galapagos taken off World Heritage danger list
July 2010
- Indonesia: Greenpeace reveal extent of Sinar Mas forest destruction
- UK: Wildflowers of Brockles Field avoid the plough
- Spain: Crocus - banking the world's most expensive spice
- Philippines: Crucial week for the people and forests of Palawan
- UK: Get involved in the future of a natural England
- UK: The case of the missing plant charities
- Global: International Bog Day, July 25th
- Brazil: The undoing of the Forest Code
- Peru: Illegal mahogany threatening remote tribes
- Global: Illegal logging in decade of decline Spain:
- Introducing the Crocusbank project
- UK: Prince Charles opens business and biodiversity conference
- EU: Success for environmentalists as illegal timber finally banned
- UK: Rare buttercup found in Shropshire field
- Global: How many plants out there need saving?
- China: BGCI's plant conservation brochure published
- Mexico: Scientists recognised at Society for Economic Botany
- Ireland: Review of 4th Botanic Gardens Congress
June 2010
- UK IN PICTURES: Conserving plants on the UK's most southerly tip
- Brazil: Juma REDD test case in the Amazon
- Global: "Despite obstacles , forests can be restored and protected"
- Switzerland: IUCN report on IPBES released
- Malaysia: Penan attacked while trying to protect their forest
- Philippines: Crucial days ahead for UNESCO Reserve
- UK: Peter Ainsworth appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Plantlife
- Europe: Political hope for illegal timber ban
- Europe: Preventing the introduction of pest plant species in Mediterranean Europe
- UK: Saving the Tamar Tiger - riverside rescue of rare plant
- Korea: Green light for biodiversity version of IPCC?
- UK: Rare orchids cut down before seeding
- UK: Novel biodiversity conference looks at business opportunities
May 2010
- UK: Plantlife gets a new look
- Canary Islands: New legislation threatens already endangered plants
- UK IN PICTURES: The New Forest comes alive
- South America: Atlantic Forest brought to life at Chelsea
- UK IN PICTURES: Readers' photos of spring
- UK: Planned palm oil power stations may impact Global South
- Indonesia: Greenpeace celebrate Nestlé victory
- UK: Kew gives world's smallest waterlily a reprieve
- UK: Ancient Tees Valley's ‘rainforest’ survey
- Launch of Global Biodiversity Outlook (GB0-3)
- UK: Last reprieve for Rapunzel's bane
- UK: Britain's rarest flower under police guard
- IUCN: Forget the banks, bail out nature
- Spain: Polygala balansae - only known European population under threat
- Colombia: From white to green
April 2010
- Global: Failing biodiversity targets
- UK: Losing the taste for gin?
- Indonesia: Sinar Mas continue to break sustainability commitments
- UK IN PICTURES: Common spring flowers
- St Helena: Trust wins grant to protect biodiversity
- USA: Botanical art showcases rare plants at NYBG
- New study investigates the scale of global mangrove losses
- UK: Rare plant returns to old school haunt
- UK: Making wildflowers count
- Colombia: Counting the cost of cocaine
- UK: Bluebell watch
- BGCI: Help needed for Zelkova action plan
- UK: The invaders lurking in our ponds
- UK: Recovering from the winter blues
- Greenpeace ask Nestlé to give rainforests a break
- Kyrgyzstan: Conserving Eden
March 2010
- Canada: University of British Columbia Annual Forestry Lecture 2010
- Canada: University of British Columbia Annual Forestry Lecture 2010
- Canada: University of British Columbia Annual Forestry Lecture 2010
- Qatar: Two Latin American trees protected at CITES talks
- Qatar: The Mahoganies head list of plants under discussion
- Qatar: Endangered species on the table
- India: Sacred mountain still under threat
- UK: Airborne infantry to attack knotweed
- UK: Ghost Orchid (slight return)
- Philippines: Update on Palawan campaign
- IN PICTURES: Welwitschia mirabilis
- NGOs petition EU to change biofuel stance
- UK: Where have all the hunter-gatherers gone?
February 2010
- USA: Ecology for the future in Colorado's forests
- Asia: BBC documentary reveals the increasing problem with palm oil
- Plant Profile: Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
- Plant Profile: Philodendron bipinnatifidum
- USA: Reduced summer fog may put redwoods in danger
- Growing cities and crops means the forests fall
- Mali: Plants at the heart of everyday life
- Have we all got a list in us?
- India: The Avatar complex
- UK: World Land Trust bring conservation to Chelsea
- Plant Profile: Impatiens gordonii
- Philippines: Geo-tagging reveals mining threats on the “Last frontier”
January 2010
- IUCN: Species of the day
- Ecuador: Yasuni - the most biodiverse place on Earth?
- Madagascar IN PICTURES
- Reunion: Rare orchid pollinated by cricket
- UK: The Great Fen – last chance for endangered fen plants?
- Global: IUCN warns of 'extinction crisis'
- Nymphaea tetragona: A rare and endangered plant
December 2009
- Africa: All of a Quiver
- UK: Keeping invaders out of the Forest
- Sweden: Award for Congo champion
- Global: A new approach to the IUCN Red List?
- Global: Why plants matter
- Copenhagen: Nature has the solutions
- Australia: Red Gums - victims of politics?
- Africa: UK Government shows ongoing commitment to African agriculture
- Ecuador: World's smallest orchid discovered
November 2009
- Switzerland: Korea to host next World Conservation Congress
- UK: Potential to restore billion hectares of forests around the world
- UK: "More tree planting" say scientists
- Global: Maples under threat in the wild
- Amazon: Deforestation rate drops
- Madagascar: Kew team give live updates from the field
- Chile IN PICTURES: A conservation adventure
- Chile: A Chilean conservation adventure
- Guyana: Norway pledge investment in forests
- Seychelles: More news from an Island Paradise...
- Mexico: DNA barcoding the world's plants
- USA: Disney invest in rainforest conservation
- UK: A comeback 60 years in the making
- IUCN Red List update shows up global failure to slow biodiversity loss
- Over 12,000 plants on the Red List
October 2009
- Indonesia: Greenpeace sets up base camp in rainforest
- Bulgaria: Protected area threatened as it reaches 75th anniversary
- Atlantic Forest IN PICTURES
- VIEWPOINT: Forests high on the agenda again - really forests?
- United States under pressure to protect tropical forests
- Buenos Aires: WWF call for halt to forest loss
- Buenos Aires: Forget forests at your peril - IUCN
- BiodiverCity? Or the great urban extinction?
- UK: 10 % of the World's Seeds Banked!
- UK: Where have all the Ghost Orchids gone?
- Amazon: What price a beefburger?
- Asia: 100 new species of plants in the Greater Mekong
- The future of the planet depends on its forests
September 2009
- Rainforests IN PICTURES
- Capturing the world's rainforests
- UK IN PICTURES: Conservation in unlikely places
- UK: Ecology, culture and passion
- Standing up to plantations
- South America: Exploring the land of the Jaguar
- Borneo: Penan arrested while roadblocks come down
- USA: Save the plants, save the planet
- Kenya IN PICTURES: Scenes of devastation from the Mau Forest
- Papua New Guinea: Lost world uncovered by BBC team
- UK: Cutting down trees in the name of conservation
- Kenya: Appeal to save largest forest
- UK: Lower plant strategy for Wales
- UK: Britain's forests reveal their secrets
- Peru: UN tell Peru to ask for drilling consent
- Peru: One million acres of Amazon saved
- UK: 2009 is a good vintage for Britain's rarest plants
August 2009
- Borneo: New blockades as Penan block loggers with blowpipes
- UK: Wildlife crime not taken seriously
- Chocolate and cosmetic brands stand up against palm oil
- Colorado, USA: Plant Conservation Initiative and "The Forgotten Majority"
- Peru: Government investigates illegal logging
- UK: Wildlife returns to flooded bog
- Aerial photos show loggers inside Indian reserve
- Tree planting for at risk Bangladesh
- Disappearing monkeys means a shrinking forest
- Perupetro suspend Amazon auction till October
- More success for Greenpeace campaigns
- Brazil's environment minister to step down
- Himalayas: Vulnerable new species at mountainous crossroads
- The Burren: Invasive scrub threatens Ireland's botanical jewel
- The carbon debt of palm oil
- Call for action on UN Indigenous Peoples' Day
- North America: Forests and a beetle go to war
- Penan people fight back against loggers
- What's the future of Europe's last ancient forest?
- Alcoa to bulldoze 25,000 acres
July 2009
- Restoration ecology benefits biodiversity
- Timberland follow Nike's lead on Amazon leather
- DNA barcode for plants
- Soya traders extend moratorium on Amazon destruction
- First Australian REDD deal gets go ahead in Tasmania
- REDD Alert
- Sustainable Palm Oil gets boost in China
- The Prince's Rainforests Project
- UK woodlands changing
- Tiny fraction of EU budget safeguards wildlife
June 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
- Who's going to bail out nature?
- Maunder heads east
- New database takes conservation into the 21st century
- Crunch time for the environment
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
- The future of forest monitoring?
- Protection for "lost" tribes
- The plight of Papua New Guinea's forests
- Stuttering progress at UN biodiversity gathering
May 2008
- Wildlife in severe decline
- Scottish lochs and rivers at risk from invasives
- English Wildlife "under threat"
- Don't let biofuels invade, warn top scientists