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APP pledges to restore forests, if given the opportunity

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Mar 2014

Will zero deforestation commitments save Indonesia’s forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Mar 2014

After GAR expands policy, over 50% of world’s palm oil bound by zero deforestation commitments

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Mar 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Integrating demand for food with the need to save wild areas

Dr Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2014

Tree islands more effective way to replant the world’s forests

Dr Liz Kimbrough 9 Jan 2014

Rainforest news review for 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2013

Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2013

World’s biggest palm oil company makes zero deforestation commitment

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2013

Green investors urge companies to clean up palm oil industry

Mongabay.com 4 Dec 2013

Greener palm oil on the horizon?

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2013

Why is Amazon deforestation climbing?

Daniel Nepstad 17 Nov 2013

3.5 million ha of Indonesian and Malaysian forest converted for palm oil in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2013

85% of Brazilian leather goes to markets sensitive to environmental concerns

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2013

Foodies eat lab-grown burger that could change the world

Jeremy Hance 6 Aug 2013

Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

Brazilian state to pay counties that cut Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2013

World’s biggest companies lay out path toward zero-deforestation commodities

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2013

Solving ‘wicked problems’: ten principles for improved environmental management

Jaboury Ghazoul 23 Jun 2013

U.S. govt has role to play in stopping commodity-driven deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Jun 2013

Palm oil expansion endangering rare frogs in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2013

Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, environmental toll

Anne Usher 3 Jun 2013

Environmentalists unhappy with new palm oil standard

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2013

Brazil’s success in reducing deforestation will be hard to replicate

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2013

Brazil threatens $282m in fines for beef linked to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2013

6 lessons for stopping deforestation on the frontier

Daniel Nepstad 9 Apr 2013

30% of Brazil’s emissions from deforestation are export-driven

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Apr 2013

Deforestation, wetlands loss in Brazil and Indonesia generated 45b tons of CO2 in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2013

Recovery of Atlantic Forest depends on land-use histories

Thomas Handley 10 Dec 2012

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

From ‘fertilizer to fork’: food accounts for a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2012

90 percent of oil palm plantations came at expense of forest in Kalimantan

Jeremy Hance 8 Oct 2012

Agriculture causes 80% of tropical deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2012

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