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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

Rhino poaching rises sharply due to Asian demand for horns

Failure to support greener palm oil may lead industry to abandon environmental measures

Parks in Sumatra may reduce deforestation in adjacent unprotected areas

A Tasmanian tragedy? : How the forestry industry has torn an island apart

REDD readiness plans for Panama, Guyana approved but rejected for Indonesia

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

UK firm plans to log habitat of critically endangered orangutan for palm oil production

Wind could power the entire world

New Yangtze River dam could doom more endangered species

Mixed signals from the crown? Queen knights logging tycoon while Prince fights deforestation

War and conservation in Cambodia

What is the crop productivity and environmental impact of too much or too little fertilizer?

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

Photos: camera traps capture snow leopards in Afghanistan

UN calls for global ban on plastic bags to save oceans

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

International community calls for action against gangs’ illegal logging in Madagascar

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

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