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Greenpeace slams paper giant over loophole in fire-prevention policy

Alice Cuddy 10 Feb 2017

Will there really be enough sustainable palm oil for the whole market?

Tara MacIsaac 7 Feb 2017
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

HSBC financing tied to deforestation, rights violations for palm oil in Indonesia

John Cannon 18 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016
Timber stack at the Iwokrama mill site. Photo by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay

FSC certification gives boost to rainforest community

Carinya Sharples 19 Dec 2016
Logging concession in Kwakwani, Guyana. Photo by Akola Thompson for Mongabay

UK greenheart restriction could put pressure on Guyana’s logging economy

Akola Thompson 15 Dec 2016

FSC puts timber processor on probation after ‘scathing’ investigation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Dec 2016

Australian retailers accused of misusing the RSPO’s label on their palm oil products

Alice Cuddy 5 Dec 2016
Rainforest cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia ships first containers of timber under EU legality scheme

Lusia Arumingtyas 17 Nov 2016

Complaint against a palm oil company in Papua held in limbo by RSPO

Alice Cuddy 2 Nov 2016

RSPO loses key backer in Australia: ‘We just can’t trust them anymore’

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2016

More than 20 labor law violations by Indofood alleged in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 14 Oct 2016

Scoring palm oil buyers on their sustainability commitments

Mike Gaworecki 10 Oct 2016

Voluntary certification standards have far to go, say experts

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 20 Sep 2016

IPOP’s demise undercuts palm oil industry progress [commentary]

Dave McLaughlin 8 Aug 2016

RSPO lifts suspension of Malaysian palm oil giant IOI

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2016

Failure of Indonesia’s palm oil commitment ‘not bad news’ [commentary]

Scott Poynton 27 Jul 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI under pressure after Cargill ultimatum

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López and Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016

Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?

Mongabay 7 Jun 2016

PanEco resigns from RSPO over ‘sheer level of inaction’

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

Malaysian palm oil companies say their concession maps are state secrets

Mongabay.com 6 May 2016

How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals

Jeremy Hance 3 May 2016

A decade in the making: EU, Indonesia to start licensing scheme for legal timber shipments

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2016

Has big conservation gone astray?

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2016

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