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

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Growing need for deforestation-free rubber as tire demand destroys native forests

Innovative community fisheries initiative wins top social entrepreneurship prize

Scientists raise concern over road proposed through protected forest in Cambodia

Platform provides near-real time analysis of deforestation in non-Brazilian Amazon

Condition of tropical forests ‘worsening’, could become ‘critical’

Who’s to blame for forest loss in Borneo timber concession?

Paper or paperless? Navigating the ecological impact strait between Scylla and Charybdis

Fighting fire with money: can finance protect Indonesia’s forests?

KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut adopt zero deforestation policy for palm oil

Common ground: balancing rights and responsibilities for natural resource investments and community development

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Domino’s, DairyQueen, Taco Bell, Burt’s Bees score terribly on eliminating deforestation from supply chains

Archer Daniels Midland to demand suppliers stop chopping down forests

Tracking companies’ zero deforestation commitments

9 months after Amazonian oil pipeline spill, effects and fears linger

Mobile app reveals what products contain palm oil

Record heat in Antarctica

APRIL suspends contractor after environmentalists expose ongoing deforestation

APRIL violates sustainability policy by clearing peat forest after Jan cut-off

Why palm oil expanded, and what keeps it growing

Deer ‘kissing’ fawn among finalists in camera trap photo contest

Destruction of elephant, tiger, and orangutan habitat doubles

World’s fragmented forests are deteriorating

Seeing the trees but not the forest (commentary)

Pleasure palace in Lao facilitates wildlife poaching for Chinese elites

Riau misses deadline on ‘village forest’ project as zoning deadlock continues

Who’s funding palm oil?

Indonesia’s indigenous people still suffer human rights violations, says report

Declining palm oil prices: Good news and bad news for smallholders

When apes have choices and preferences (commentary)

Brazil confirms rising deforestation in the Amazon

Proposed law could decimate Indonesia’s remaining forests

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