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Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2016

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jan 2016

Does sustainable forest management actually protect forests?

John Cannon 27 Jan 2016

Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

Cameroon convicts activist campaigning against palm oil company

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Nov 2015

Key forest countries’ climate pledges fall short on emissions from land use and deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2015

Norway pledges $47M/yr to help Congo countries save forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015

Feline Unseen: The African Golden Cat

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2015

Scientists urge greater enforcement of wildlife laws in Africa

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2015

‘Chaos’ in Congo’s logging sector

John Cannon 8 Jul 2015

Using DNA evidence to pinpoint poaching zones

Suzanne Palminteri 30 Jun 2015

Rainforest communities can now report illegal logging with their mobile phones

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2015

‘Deforestation fronts’ revealed

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2015

Expedition in the Congo rediscovers lost primate

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2015

New group hopes to raise global profile of the peace-loving bonobo

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2015

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Apr 2015

DRC mulls changing Virunga’s boundaries for oil

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2015

Scientists sound the alarm on African palm oil investment

John Cannon 20 Feb 2015

Selective logging causes long-term changes to forest structure

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

2014: the year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2014

Camera traps capture rare footage of wild bonobos (video)

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2014

Tropical deforestation could disrupt rainfall globally

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2014

Surprising reasons to be optimistic about saving forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2014

‘Militarized occupation’: local communities pay the price for palm oil

John Cannon 11 Nov 2014

Beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products from 8 countries responsible for 1/3 of forest destruction

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Climate change to boost farmland, diminish harvests, says new study

John Cannon 29 Sep 2014

Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Illegal tropical deforestation driven globally by “agro-conversion”

John Cannon 11 Sep 2014

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