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Sierra Leone cracks down on illegal logging by banning log exports

Shipment of questionable Madagascar rosewood canceled after international outcry

Rainforest conservation: a year in review

Kenya REDD project becomes first in Africa to win gold-level validation

French company CMA-CGM facilitating destruction of Madagascar’s rainforests, undermining France’s position in Copenhagen

Last breeding northern white rhinos will return to Africa

World’s rarest gorilla caught on film

Climate change protestors vowing ‘people’s assembly’ beaten back with batons, tear gas in Copenhagen

Major international banks, shipping companies, and consumers play key role in Madagascar’s logging crisis

Photos: ten beloved species threatened by global warming

African nations return to the negotiating table after walkout in Copenhagen

Islands and African nations present toughest treaty yet to combat global warming

Is a polar bear worth more than a lion?

REDD in Madagascar

Profile of the carbon footprint of the global poor: the challenge of alleviating poverty and fighting global warming

African children on ‘gorilla warfare’ mission in run-up to COP15

Hyenas cooperate more easily than chimpanzees

Forgotten Species: the haunting whistle of the Anjouan scops-owl

Blogging wildlife rangers drive microconservation

In midst of poaching crisis, illegal rhino horn tops gold

Photo of new chameleon species discovered in Tanzania

Global warming will increase likelihood of civil war in Africa by 55 percent

Gibson Guitar under federal investigation for alleged use of illegal rainforest timber from Madagascar

Pygmy hippo shot and killed in…Australia

Forgotten species: Madagascar’s water-loving mammal, the aquatic tenrec

Prime Minister of Kenya urged to ban lion-killing pesticide after child dies from ingestion

Saving the world’s rarest wolf

NASA satellite image reveals extent of drought in East Africa

House resolution condemns plunder of natural resources in Madagascar

Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

Goodbye, snows of Kilimanjaro

Tsavo lions ate 35 people, not 135

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