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Rhett Butler is the founder and CEO of Mongabay. He also servers as managing editor.

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VICE’s ‘Indonesia’s Palm Bomb’ presents a tragic view of palm oil driven deforestation from the frontlines

Tennis star responds to rainforest advocates

62M ha of Latin American forests cleared for agriculture since 2001

Malaysian palm oil body encourages fiction over fact

What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?

Weapons trafficking experts target criminal wildlife trade networks

Zero deforestation commitments bearing fruit in the Amazon

Indonesian forestry giant calls for stronger forest moratorium

Peru considers fate of Amazon wildlife paradise

Indian fabric giant adopts forest policy

Palm oil certification body to establish stronger voluntary standard

Using freely available tools to monitor forest cover in critical chimpanzee habitat

Sarawak leader pledges no more logging, palm oil expansion

Orangutan rescued amid sea of palm oil

Borneo’s rainforest may get high-tech 3D scan to boost conservation

Sarawak increases fines for illegal logging

Tapping into evolutionary responses to guard crops against elephants

7 conservationists win Whitley Awards

Selective logging leaves more dead wood in rainforests

Rainforest communities can now report illegal logging with their mobile phones

Predicting deforestation before it happens

‘Deforestation fronts’ revealed

$100M study to look at how rainforests respond to climate change

‘Zero Deforestation’ not necessarily the answer, environmentalists warn

NASA reveals rise in deforestation in remote Peruvian parks

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon continues to accelerate

Ocean contributes $2.5 trillion to economy annually

Activists target Roger Federer as brand ambassador for bank linked to deforestation

50 nature pictures for Earth Day

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund takes stand against deforestation

McDonald’s to address deforestation across all commodities it sources

Earth Day call to double native forest canopy by 2035

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