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WWF accuses APRIL of breaking sustainability commitment by logging rainforest in Borneo

Mongabay.com 23 May 2014

Zero-deforestation commitments pose acute challenges for commercial giants in the palm oil industry

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 22 May 2014

Timber concessions in Sumatra have high conservation value, according to report

Satria Eka Hadinaryanto 21 May 2014

Epidemic of elephant calf kidnapping hits Sri Lanka, say conservationists

Shreya Dasgupta 21 May 2014

PepsiCo announces zero deforestation commitment for palm oil

Mongabay.com 21 May 2014

Chinese officials seize nearly a thousand dead pangolins

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2014

Dams be damned: study finds large dams are too expensive

Paul Sutherland 19 May 2014

Hong Kong begins destroying 131,000 pounds of elephant ivory

Mongabay.com 17 May 2014

Indonesia’s biological wonders are worth the fight

Erik Meijaard 17 May 2014

Publishing industry dramatically reduces reliance on rainforest fiber

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 May 2014

Dancing frogs: scientists discover 14 new species in India (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 May 2014

Chinese poachers caught with 555 marine turtles, most dead (PHOTOS)

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

NASA data: 1997 all over again for Indonesia?

Mongabay.com 14 May 2014

‘Simmering conflict’: the delicate balancing act of protecting India’s wilderness

Sandhya Sekar 13 May 2014

Scientists release odd-looking, Critically Endangered crocodiles back into the wild (PHOTOS)

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2014

Chinese luxury furniture linked to murder, near extinction

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2014

India, not China, has the world’s worst urban air pollution

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2014

Borneo bests Amazon in terms of giant tree growth rates

Mongabay.com 11 May 2014

Environmentalists lament light sentence in Tripa peatland destruction case

Mongabay.com 10 May 2014

Obama: palm oil destroying Malaysia’s rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 May 2014

Special Report: Lake Toba indigenous people fight for their frankincense forest

Satria Eka Hadinaryanto 8 May 2014

Elephants in the midst: warning system prevents human-elephant conflicts in India, saves lives

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 May 2014

China pledges $10 million to combat poaching in Africa

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2014

Malaysian palm oil company stock drops after environmental complaint

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 May 2014

Indonesia president lauds success of logging ban, urges continued action

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 5 May 2014

Palm oil plan unlikely to help communities in Indonesian New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2014

When the orangutan and the slow loris met – and no one was eaten

Jeremy Hance 5 May 2014

The Harry Potter wasp: public votes to name new species after soul-sucking ghouls

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2014

Indonesia sets aside $173M to prepare for El Niño

Mongabay.com 2 May 2014

Speculators attempt to defraud people’s forest program in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2014

Not all used up: why conserving selectively logged forests is important

Andrew Mann 2 May 2014

Will they hold on? Three new gecko species found in threatened habitat

Paul Sutherland 2 May 2014

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