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On track to ‘go beyond the critical point’: Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip

Janaki Lenin 15 Jul 2014

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2014

Downturn in shade-grown coffee putting forests, wildlife, people at risk

Nika Levikov 11 Jul 2014

DRC deforestation escalates despite resource shortages, protests, rape, homicide

John Cannon 10 Jul 2014

Good intentions, collateral damage: forest conservation may be hurting grasslands

Anna Ikarashi 10 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Rewards for reforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Jul 2014

The last best place no more: massive deforestation destroying prime chimp habitat in Uganda

Benon Herbert Oluka 9 Jul 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

Stuff of fairy tales: stepping into Europe’s last old-growth forest

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

APP won’t acquire companies that continue to destroy forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2014

Pope Francis: ‘this is our sin: we exploit the earth’

Jeremy Hance 8 Jul 2014

An end to India’s ‘Wild West’? Meghalaya bans coal mining… for now

Janaki Lenin 8 Jul 2014

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

APP: Indonesia needs a new business model

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2014

No restrictions: Japan’s demand for illegal wood driving rampant deforestation in Siberia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

A fine line: new program predicts when human impact becomes too much

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? The ‘double-edged sword’ of democracy

Dr Liz Kimbrough 3 Jul 2014

On a whim: Equatorial Guinea building new capital city in the middle of the rainforest

Fidelis Zvomuya 2 Jul 2014

On the brink of extinction: Javan rhino has new enemy in invasive palm

Ethan Harfenist 1 Jul 2014

Oil palm plantations degrade local water quality relative to community forests

Mongabay.com 30 Jun 2014

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

Despite moratorium, Indonesia now has world’s highest deforestation rate

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jun 2014

Is REDD+ bad for wildlife? New study says lowland forest protection bias unfair, urges change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Jun 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Playing games to understand what drives deforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2014

Is Cameroon becoming the new Indonesia? Palm oil plantations accelerating deforestation

John Cannon 25 Jun 2014

Size matters: small animals abundant in fragmented forests, large animals not

Jose Hong 25 Jun 2014

Logging in Vietnam still affecting rare trees 30 years later

Andrew Mann 25 Jun 2014

Discarded cell phones to help fight rainforest poachers, loggers in real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jun 2014

Study finds tiny cloud forests have big biodiversity

Nicholas Barrett 24 Jun 2014

Is the banteng making a comeback? Researchers find new population in Cambodia

Janaki Lenin 23 Jun 2014

Wilmar to investigate palm oil company allegedly destroying orangutan forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jun 2014

Broken promises no more? Signs Sabah may finally uphold commitment on wildlife corridors

Jeremy Hance 23 Jun 2014

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