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Special Issue: Natural regeneration in the Tropics

Landscape in the Marqués de Comillas area, part of the La Selva Lacandona region, southeastern Mexico. This area was open to human communities in 1970 and now the landscape is conformed of a mosaic of different agricultural uses and remnants of old-growth forest and patches of secondary forests. (Photo by: Leonor Solís. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, UNAM. Used with permission and all rights reserved).

–For immediate release– Natural regeneration often ignored as a viable land-use option   Biotropica’s latest Special Issue published online Monday… Read More »

New in @Biotropica: Logging helps black rats invade rainforests

Rat with spool attached. (Credit: Oliver Wearn)

Logging can encourage black rats to invade tropical rainforests by creating habitats they prefer, giving them the chance to displace… Read More »

Frogs affected by logging even after 40 years

Raorchestes chalazodes on a slide caliper (photo by K S Seshadri)

—  PRESS RELEASE —  Frogs affected by logging even after 40 years Additional photos available here on September 26th 11… Read More »

Ainda há chance de um gol de placa para o tatu-bola e a Caatinga

The Brazilian Three-banded armadillo Tolypeutes tricinctus, the official mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It’s habitat is the Caatinga drylands of Northeastern Brazil. Among the most threatened tropical dry forests of the world, the Caatinga has now been reduced to 53 percent of its original area. Besides strong pressure from subsistence hunting, T. tricinctus also experiences the loss of habitat due to the use of the vegetation for industrial and domestic fuelwood and conversion for livestock ranching. (Photo credit: J. A. Siqueira).

  Pela conservação do mascote da Copa do Mundo e de seu habitat, pesquisadores propõem desafio à Fifa e ao… Read More »

A challenge to FIFA & the Brazilian government as the World Cup approaches

The Brazilian Three-banded armadillo Tolypeutes tricinctus, the official mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It’s habitat is the Caatinga drylands of Northeastern Brazil. Among the most threatened tropical dry forests of the world, the Caatinga has now been reduced to 53 percent of its original area. Besides strong pressure from subsistence hunting, T. tricinctus also experiences the loss of habitat due to the use of the vegetation for industrial and domestic fuelwood and conversion for livestock ranching. (Photo credit: J. A. Siqueira).

Scientists challenge FIFA & the Brazilian government: Protect 1,000 hectares of the critically endangered Caatinga ecosystem for each goal scored in… Read More »