World’s second biggest rainforest will soon reopen to large-scale logging. The lifting of the 20-year logging moratorium in part of the Congo is fueling disputes over how the forest can be kept ...

National Geographic Explorer Topher White, for example, has come up with a way to use recycled cell phones to monitor for chainsaws, while other groups, including the Rainforest Action Network and ...

Topher White, an engineer and National Geographic Explorer, founded his bioacoustic monitoring company, Rainforest Connection, in 2014 to monitor illegal logging, detect poaching activity, and ...

National Geographic Explorer Topher White has created a clever way to listen for sounds of illegal logging. ... And believe it or not, cell phone reception often isn’t bad in the rain forest.

It’s more than just the Amazon. Rainforests across the tropics, from Indonesia to Central America and from Madagascar to the jungles around the Mekong River, are being cut or burned—to make ...

A female orangutan forages for ripe figs in the rainforest canopy of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan Province. The park’s 417 square miles support about 2,500 of the ...

The canopy crane experience. A traditional rainforest walkway or tower provides an up-close yet stationary view of the treetops. But the new canopy crane at Sacha Lodge, a private ecological ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia ...

Deep in the Costa Rican rainforests, where howler monkeys and pumas roam, conservationists are working alongside travellers on new citizen science projects, introducing hi-tech processes to ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. If there were a competition for the world’s weirdest insect, treehoppers would have a clear shot at first place. See ...

KLEMTU, GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST, BRITISH COLUMBIA — There are stories about the white bears that hide in the deep forest of British Columbia’s coast. Old stories, handed down from one generation ...

A short drive from the town of Tena, in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Arahuana Jungle Resort & Spa is a peaceful enclave, disturbed only by the sounds of chattering birds and distant storms.