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As Bolivia plans dramatic agro-expansion, forests may pay the price (PART II)

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Sep 2014

Brazil confirms last year’s rise in Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Sep 2014

Illegal tropical deforestation driven globally by “agro-conversion”

John Cannon 11 Sep 2014

FSC meeting weighs old-growth forest protection, smallholder participation

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2014

Bolivian vice president proposes unprecedented agricultural expansion (PART 1)

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Sep 2014

Elephants pay the price for palm oil in Malaysian Borneo, impact may reach far beyond reported kills

Mike Gaworecki 10 Sep 2014

Canada, Russia, Brazil lead world in old-growth forest loss

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Sep 2014

‘A global tragedy’ in the making? Thailand plans highway expansion through World Heritage Site

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Aug 2014

More trouble with tar sands: oil extraction leading to big forest loss in Alberta

Dr Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2014

Authorities stop ‘greatest destroyers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Aug 2014

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2014

What lies within, we may never know: deforestation threatening Sulawesi’s unique wildlife

Apoorva Joshi 26 Aug 2014

Can it be stopped? Ghana’s forests ‘could completely disappear in less than 25 years’

Judy Ogutu 25 Aug 2014

An uncertain future: world’s last wild Siberian tigers threatened by illegal logging, global warming, disease (PART II)

Sandhya Sekar 22 Aug 2014

Have scientists discovered a new primate in the Philippines?

Jeremy Hance 21 Aug 2014

Running to reforest: communities, NGOs work to save Ugandan reserve in the midst of massive deforestation

Benon Herbert Oluka 21 Aug 2014

Looming mining ‘tsunami’ set to take Africa by storm

John Cannon 20 Aug 2014

Logging of Russian Far East damaging tiger habitat, few intact forests protected (Part I)

Sandhya Sekar 19 Aug 2014

When forests aren’t really forests: the high cost of Chile’s tree plantations

Julian Moll-rocek 18 Aug 2014

Nothing else left to log: are eco-certified timber companies stripping Russia of its last old growth forests?

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Aug 2014

Indonesia cracks down on illegal burning, investigates more suspect companies

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 14 Aug 2014

‘Natural Reserves’ no more: illegal colonists deforest huge portions of Nicaraguan protected areas

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 13 Aug 2014

A paradise being lost: Peru’s most important forests felled for timber, crops, roads, mining

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Aug 2014

Singapore to fine domestic, foreign companies for causing haze

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2014

Tin mining, palm oil plantations wreaking havoc on small Indonesian island

Ethan Harfenist 4 Aug 2014

Where have all the big animals gone? Indian park devoid of many species, further threatened by forest loss

Janaki Lenin 4 Aug 2014

The Philippines: where ‘megadiversity’ meets mega deforestation

Shaira Panela 31 Jul 2014

Conservation controversy: are bonobos protected in the right ways and in the right places?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jul 2014

Deforestation ramping up in Yasuni as Ecuador sets to open up national park to drilling

Shaira Panela 29 Jul 2014

Palm oil company clears rainforest in New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2014

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

True stewards: new report says local communities key to saving forests, curbing global warming

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Jul 2014

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