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Chinese companies to be held liable for environmental damage caused overseas

Palm oil companies trade plantation concessions for carbon credits from forest conservation

Photo: Scientists discover new species of Komodo dragon-like lizard

Malaysia’s rainforests being insidiously replaced with plantations of clones

Ganges River Dolphin population falls below 300, faces new threat from oil exploration

China to support greener palm oil

Indonesia releases revenue sharing rules for REDD forest carbon projects

Auckland Zoo bans Cadbury chocolate due to palm oil content

Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas to help finance cutting of rainforests for palm oil, say NGOs

Multinational corporation continues destruction of orangutan habitat in Indonesia

India hopes to reintroduce cheetah 60 years after extinction

Parks in Sumatra may reduce deforestation in adjacent unprotected areas

U.S. forgives $30M in debt to protect rainforests in Sumatra, Indonesia

Anti-HIV and anti-cancer drugs derived from Borneo rainforest progressing to final development stages

Over 30 percent of open ocean sharks and rays face extinction

Massive deforestation in the past decreased rainfall in Asia

Cambodia signs REDD agreement

Saving tigers by counting feces

New Yangtze River dam could doom more endangered species

War and conservation in Cambodia

Malaysian palm oil chief claims oil palm plantations help orangutans

108 river basins in Indonesia need rehabiltiation

Forest fires burn in Sumatra

Caribou and reindeer population plunges 60 percent in three decades

Frogs species discovered living in elephant dung

Malaysian palm oil firms seek 100,000 ha in the Philippines

Another milestone in Afghanistan: listing of endangered species

REDD can compete financially with palm oil in Indonesia peatlands while protecting endangered species

Peatlands conversion for oil palm a ‘monumental mistake’ for Indonesia’s long-term prosperity, sustainability

Migrations of large mammals in serious declines, six have vanished entirely

Tropical East Asian forests under great threat

Orangutan guerrillas fight palm oil in Borneo

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