The year's top stories for tropical forests

Mongabay.com continues to show why it is the leading venue for news on tropical forests.  In a recent story, Mongabay founder Rhett Butler (one of ALERT's media advisors) provides a fantastically insightful summary of trends and events in 2013 that affected tropical forests globally.

If you want to keep abreast of tropical forest conservation, you really do need to read this incisive essay.

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