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How that cork in your wine bottle helps forests and biodiversity, an interview with Patrick Spencer

REDD may not provide sufficient incentive to developers over palm oil

Google Earth boosts deforestation monitoring capabilities

Commodity trade and urbanization, rather than rural poverty, drive deforestation

Forest conservation in U.S. climate policy: an interview with Jeff Horowitz

Could special bonds fund the green revolution and stabilize the climate?

UK to fund efforts to shift towards greener palm oil production

Photos: park in Ecuador likely contains world’s highest biodiversity, but threatened by oil

Congo basin rainforest countries

Forest carbon conservation projects top $100 million

REDD must address corruption to save rainforests in Indonesia, says report

Indonesia to plant and restore vast area of forest to reach emissions target

Guyana to increase oversight of gold mining under deal to save forests with Norway

Dead REDD? Not quite, but plan to protect forests suffers set back in Copenhagen

Biggest private funder of Amazon conservation teams with Google and scientists to develop earth monitoring platform

Kenya REDD project becomes first in Africa to win gold-level validation

More than half world’s science academies support call to save rainforests

U.S. pledges $1B towards rainforest conservation

Google’s Earth Engine to help tropical countries monitor forests

Rich logging countries open logging loophole in plan to reduce deforestation

Progress made on two key REDD issues in Copenhagen

New REDD text is weak, say activists

REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions

Google Earth to monitor deforestation

REDD+ could turn deforesters into forest protectors

Changing drivers of deforestation provide new opportunities for conservation

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Destruction of old-growth forests looms over climate talks

REDD in Madagascar

Brazil could halt Amazon deforestation within a decade

Cheap REDD isn’t the best conservation strategy for biodiversity

In absence of measures to address consumption, REDD may fail to protect forests

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