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Carbon market could pay poor farmers to adopt sustainable cultivation techniques

California joins effort to fight global warming by saving rainforests

New rules establish market for saving rainforests through carbon trading

Coordinated effort needed to cut deforestation via carbon markets

Greenpeace activists block palm oil shipment from departing Indonesia for Europe

In final weeks, President Bush aims to extend his environmental legacy

Palm oil companies propose satellite monitoring of their plantations to ensure sustainability

Louisiana cypress mulch industry devastates old-growth forests

Forest certification system needs reform to ensure sustainability – report

Ugandan president continues to undermine national forest reserves

Rainforest agriculture preserves bird biodiversity in India

Rainforest fungus generates biodiesel, may drive energy of the future

EU moves slowly towards a pact on illegal logging

Oil palm expansion in Indonesian Borneo increased 400-fold from 1991-2007

Forest elephants learn to avoid roads, behavior may lead to population decline

Costa Rica protects green macaw by banning logging of mountain almond tree

Borneo logging road puts rainforest, indigenous communities at risk

Peru’s uncontacted Amazon tribes under attack

Indonesia to audit all timber operations to cut illegal logging

Breakthrough may enable reforestation using mahogany

Rainforest Action Network to review support for FSC certification

UK government: rainforests are weapon against global warming

Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end

Côte d'Ivoire's endangered chimp population falls 99% since 1960

Environmental crime worth $10 billion per year

Exelon signs rainforest conservation deal to help reduce emissions

Indonesian governors agree to protect Sumatra’s endangered forests

Palm oil industry relies on greenwashing to mislead consumers, alleges report

DR Congo to cancel two-thirds of logging contracts due to corruption

Anti-NGO rhetoric in Brazil a response to environmental criticism says environment minister

Indigenous people demand greater say in using forests to fight global warming

Forest conservation can fight climate change and poverty

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