The ATBC Conservation Committee released the "Heart of Borneo" resolution in March 2007 urging "the international community, private sector, nongovernmental organizations, international aid agencies, scientific organizations, and government partners to provide direly needed financial and technical support for the crucial Heart of Borneo program and for related conservation initiatives to help protect the rapidly vanishing ecosystems and biodiversity of Borneo." Although scientists may consider Palm oil boycott as an "unrealistic" and "ineffective" approach to conserving the region's fast-disappearing rainforests, still, the private esctor is now responding and change their palm oil suppliers. Mongabay.com reports that" Burger King drops palm oil supplier linked to Borneo rainforest destruction". Other corporate such as Findus, however, progressively banned palm oil in their products between 2008 and 2010 despite being classified by WWF as good Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard in 2009.

Wiley-Blackwell and the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation published a special virtual issue of BIOTROPICA to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity. Among the selected articles, Robin Chazdon and colleagues stated that : "Lasting conservation efforts demand new alliances among conservation biologists, agroecologists, agronomists, farmers, indigenous peoples, rural social movements, foresters, social scientists, and land managers to collaborate in research, co-design conservation programs and policies, and manage human-modified landscapes in ways that enhance biodiversity conservation and promote sustainable livelihoods." That is a New Deal for tropical biologists in 2011 that has been declared the International Year of Forests by the United Nations.

In a the last issue of Journal of Tropical Ecology, Patrick A. Jansen and colleagues showed that the agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) meticulously defleshes Astrocaryum standleyanum palm seeds before scatter hoarding on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, thus reducing seed predation to the mutual benefit of the tree and the rodent. This study complements that of Nick Smythe published in BIOTROPICA in 1989. (Photo : Agouti at Barro Colorado Island defleshing a Scheelea butyracea seed. © Pierre-Michel Forget).

During its 2005 meeting in Brazil, The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation published the Uberlandia Declaration highlighting the urgent need to slow the pace of Amazon deforestation. Rhett Butler from Mongabay.com is asking "Why is the Brazilian Amazon being Destroyed?". Scientists have identified the five main causes of Amazon deforestation: clearing forest for cattle pasture, colonization and subsequent subsistence agriculture, infrastructure development (including dam construction), commercial agriculture and logging. The impacts of this forest loss are diverse, including forest fragmentation, defaunation, pollution, spread of diseases such as malaria, climate change, biodiversity loss, and the disappearance of human cultures. Rhett Butler further asks "What can de done to save the Amazon rainforest in Brazil?". One possible response came yesterday at Google Earth, relayed by Mongabay.com: We indeed need to act now and to communicate about the consequences of losing the Amazon in the near future.