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Palm oil firm becomes first to win eco-certification

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Malaysian oil palm firms eye Papua for expansion

Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established

Logging, wildlife trade drive sun bears toward extinction

Monoculture tree plantations are “green deserts” not forests, say activists

11 species of monkeys discovered in West African biodiversity hotspot

Malaysian palm oil industry accused of child slavery by the Indonesian government

Rainforest conversion to oil palm causes 83% of wildlife to disappear

Europe cuts biofuel targets to 4% in 2015, 6% in 2020

Falling palm oil price makes palm biodiesel viable, may offer target for NGOs

Malaysia pushes Borneo rainforest logging by deposing tribal leaders

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Republicans backtrack, call for end to ethanol requirements in gas

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Palm oil producers in Indonesia reject moratorium on forest destruction

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation

Haze risk returns as fires increase in Indonesia

Malaysia targets Africa and the Amazon for oil palm expansion

Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply

Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Indonesia’s Riau bans destruction of rainforests and peatlands for palm oil

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won’t increase significantly for 2008

Climate change to hurt Brazil’s farm exports by 2020

Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Loggers, palm oil firms eye remote rainforests of Papua for development

Facing criticism, biofuels industry forms new lobby group to influence lawmakers

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