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Tigers vs. diamonds: India’s protected areas rampantly downgraded to make room for people, industry

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 29 Oct 2014

Bunge commits to zero deforestation palm oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2014

How protected are they? Report finds world’s Protected Areas may relax, shrink, even completely disappear

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 28 Oct 2014

Artists, musicians, writers protest government plans for massive coal plant in the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2014

In shakeup, Jokowi merges Indonesia’s forest and environment ministries

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2014

Scientific association calls on Nicaragua to scrap its Gran Canal

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2014

When cute turns deadly – the story of a wildlife biologist who was bit by a venomous slow loris, and lived to tell the tale

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2014

Beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products from 8 countries responsible for 1/3 of forest destruction

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Demand for rhino horn drops 38 percent in Vietnam after advertising campaigns

Jeremy Hance 22 Oct 2014

Saving the survivor: China scrambles to keep the finless porpoise from extinction

Erik Vance 22 Oct 2014

‘No forests, no cash’: palm oil giants commit to sustainability, but will they follow through?

Ethan Harfenist 21 Oct 2014

Coal, climate and orangutans – Indonesia’s quandary

Daniel Stiles 21 Oct 2014

Saving Asia’s other endangered cats (photos)

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Indonesian law bars palm oil companies from protecting forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2014

Indonesia developing mega coal mine five times larger than Singapore

David Fogarty 20 Oct 2014

Walking the walk: zoo kicks off campaign for orangutans and sustainable palm oil

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2014

Indonesia’s tough choice: capping coal as Asian demand grows

David Fogarty 17 Oct 2014

Push to undermine Indonesia’s new president could stymie environmental progress, say NGOs

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2014

To become less damaging, target non-forest lands for palm oil, says book

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Oct 2014

Indonesia tries to clamp down on coal sector’s worst excesses

David Fogarty 16 Oct 2014

Scientists find temperate bat in the hot tropics of the Western Ghats (photos)

Jordanna Dulaney 15 Oct 2014

India plans huge palm oil expansion, puts forests at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Oct 2014

Plantation companies in Sumatra failing to meet fire prevention standards

Loren Bell 14 Oct 2014

Rogue palm oil company appeals deforestation case to Indonesia’s supreme court

Loren Bell 14 Oct 2014

Another environmental journalist killed in Cambodia

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2014

New species named after the struggle for same-sex marriage

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2014

Helping orangutans survive: new project aims to connect habitat fragments in Kalimantan (PART II)

Apoorva Joshi 8 Oct 2014

Marooned in shrinking forests, Bornean orangutans hang on as disaster looms (PART I)

Apoorva Joshi 7 Oct 2014

Elephants worth much, much more alive than dead, says new report

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Oct 2014

Report rates palm oil companies on sustainability commitments

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Oct 2014

Central Kalimantan to set up palm oil monitoring system to in bid cut deforestation 80%

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Oct 2014

Companies hire local communities to evade palm oil restrictions in Indonesia

Loren Bell 4 Oct 2014

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