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

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2008

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

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2008

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2008

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

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2008

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

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2008

Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2008

Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2008

Orangutans persist in islands amid a sea of oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Using farm waste for ethanol may hurt crop yields in some areas

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2008

Biofuels, food demand may doom tropical forests

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2008

Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 9 Jul 2008

Orangutan populations drop due to logging, expansion for palm oil

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2008

Louisiana signs non-corn ethanol law to produce a better biofuel

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2008

Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 30 Jun 2008

Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jun 2008

Malaysian government says no more forest clearing for oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2008

Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2008

Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2008

U.S. may allow corn farming on conservation land

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2008

Rainforests face array of emerging threats

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2008

Hunting, deforestation wipe out 6 of 7 hornbill species in Borneo park

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

More than 8% of the Brazilian Amazon is illegally owned

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

Amazon beef producer creates eco-certified meat product with help of scientists

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2008

Brazil’s new environmental minister blames ranchers for surge in Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2008

Cellulosic biofuels may be viable alternative to gas within 5 years

Madolyn Rogers 2 Jun 2008

Biofuels expansion in Africa may impact rainforests, wetlands

Mongabay.com 28 May 2008

Next gen biofuels could decimate rainforests

Mongabay.com 27 May 2008

Will consumers pay 10% premium for sustainable palm oil?

Mongabay.com 21 May 2008

Energy firm to mine oil sands in the Republic of Congo

Mongabay.com 21 May 2008

Half of oil palm expansion in Malaysia, Indonesia occurs at expense of forests

Mongabay.com 20 May 2008

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