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Oil palm genome mapped, could boost yields, reduce pressure on rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jul 2013

Zoos call on governments to take urgent action against illegal wildlife trade (photos)

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2013

First ever pangolin conference concludes all eight species in trouble

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2013

Fires burning again in Sumatra, triggering haze alerts in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2013

Rare animal species and Buddhist monks in danger of losing their home to cement quarry

Tanya Dimitrova 22 Jul 2013

Sinar Mas buys stake in Indonesian pulp, paper, and tissue firm

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2013

Weak laws governing Malaysia’s indigenous people complicate conservation efforts

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Jul 2013

Mammals of China – book review

Gabriel Thoumi 22 Jul 2013

Elephant killers should be brought to justice, Indonesia’s president tweets [WARNING: brutally graphic images]

Diana Parker 20 Jul 2013

Developer of Indonesia’s first REDD+ project confirms status of forest conservation initiative

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2013

Labor abuse widespread in Indonesia’s palm oil industry, finds investigation

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2013

Haze summit proposes sharing concession data, but keeping it hidden from the public

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2013

80% of rainforests in Malaysian Borneo logged

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2013

Stunning moth species discovered in the mountains of China

Brandon Allen 17 Jul 2013

Billions lost to corruption in Indonesia’s forest sector, says report

Diana Parker 17 Jul 2013

Palm oil body, Greenpeace spar over Indonesia fire blame

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jul 2013

How tigers are faring in their final frontier

Sandhya Sekar 15 Jul 2013

Featured video: Indonesian community uses mapping to fight palm oil takeover

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2013

Baby elephant safe in new home after standoff with Aceh village

Diana Parker 15 Jul 2013

5 men rescued, 1 killed, after 5-day Sumatran tiger standoff

Diana Parker 12 Jul 2013

Activists raise alarm over park that will dispossess Borneo tribe of land

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jul 2013

Haze fires concentrated in deforested peatlands, not forest areas, confirms satellite analysis

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2013

Chain of custody nonsense from FSC & PEFC: protecting income streams rather than the world’s forests

Scott Poynton 10 Jul 2013

Palm oil lobby group misleads on origin of haze, fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jul 2013

Chinese lose 2.5 billion years of life expectancy due to coal burning

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2013

New shrew discovered in Vietnam forest

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2013

Yangtze finless porpoise drops to Critically Endangered

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2013

Illegal palm oil from an Indonesian national park used by Asian Agri, Wilmar, WWF report says

Diana Parker 5 Jul 2013

Influential British editor banned from Sarawak

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2013

New long-horned beetle discovered in China

Hannah Lindstrom 3 Jul 2013

Australia terminates landmark REDD+ project in Borneo

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2013

In age of climate change, Australia’s vast coal fields could become worthless

Damian Carrington 2 Jul 2013

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