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Cartels clear-cutting U.S. national parks for marijuana plantations

Mongabay.com 7 Sep 2009
U.S.-based Cargill corporation burns large areas of Amazon rainforest in norther Pará state to prepare for soya plantations in 2003. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace

20% of land deforested in the Brazilian Amazon is regrowing forest

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Sep 2009

Investing in conservation could save global economy trillions of dollars annually

Jeremy Hance 3 Sep 2009

Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak

Kara Moses 3 Sep 2009

Amazon tribes have long fought bloody battles against big oil in Ecuador

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2009

Amazon deforestation to fall 30% in 2009

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

Vietnam outsources deforestation to neighboring countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

Penan tribe to continue blockade against loggers with blowpipes and spears

Jeremy Hance 1 Sep 2009

Destructive farming practices of early civilization may have altered climate long before industrial era

Jeremy Hance 31 Aug 2009

Retailers Costco and Amazon.com flunk sustainable paper use, WalMart and Target fare little better

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2009

20,000 orangutans killed or poached in 10 years without a single prosecution

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2009

Environmental disappointments under Obama

Jeremy Hance 24 Aug 2009

New Zealand dairy industry contributing to rainforest destruction, says Greenpeace

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2009

Destruction worsens in Madagascar

Wildmadagascar.org 20 Aug 2009

Brazil’s ‘Obama’ weighs presidential bid

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2009

World Bank violated environmental rules in lending to palm oil companies, finds internal audit

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2009

World’s rarest tree kangaroo gets help from those who once hunted it

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2009

Sears catalogue continues to harm boreal forest and caribou

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2009

Oil companies in the UK are big users of palm oil biodiesel

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2009

Forest fires set by Borneo dam developer contributes to haze in Malaysia, Singapore

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2009

Cadbury dumps palm oil after consumer protests

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2009

Photos reveal illegal logging near uncontacted natives in Peru

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2009

Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2009

Boreal forests in wealthy countries being rapidly destroyed

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2009

Issues around palm oil development prove complex, controversial

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2009

Historical deforestation in Madagascar may not be as bad as commonly believed

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2009

Lessons from the crisis in Madagascar, an interview with Erik Patel

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2009

LUSH cosmetics launches campaign against palm oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2009

Peru to proceed with oil and gas auctions in the Amazon despite indigenous protests

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2009

Amazon deforestation falls in June

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2009

Millenium Project’s “State of the Future” Report Cites 21st Century Threats

Ryan King 5 Aug 2009

Peru to raise payment to indigenous communities for Amazon forest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2009

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