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Malaysia drops the ball on wildlife trafficking, says group

‘Snakes on a Plane’ trafficker freed early from jail

Brazil’s plan to cut protected areas for dams faces constitutional challenge

Tropical ecologist: Australia must follow U.S. and EU in banning illegally logged wood

Caution urged in sale of Madagascar’s illegal timber stockpiles

Indonesia to require loggers prove their concessions free of overlapping claims

Atlantic sturgeon gains protection under the Endangered Species Act

U.S. implements snake ban to save native ecosystems

National Association of Music Merchants does ‘disservice’ to members by misleading them on illegal logging law, says letter

Brazil begins preliminary damming of Xingu River as protests continue

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Indonesia grants exemption from logging moratorium for 3.6m ha of forest

Featured video: documentary on logging mafia

Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?

Mixed reactions to the Durban agreement

Brazil passes controversial Forest Code reform environmentalists say will be ‘a disaster’ for the Amazon

Wolverines live up to tough reputation

World’s most endangered primate still losing habitat

Brazil’s Forest Code vote delayed

Dole abandons banana plantation in National Park

Peruvian authorities raid illegal gold mining operations

Cooper-Blackburn bill seeks exemptions for illegal wood imports

Unsung heroes: the life of a wildlife ranger in the Congo

Group forms to establish standard for Lacey Act compliance

Tea Party rallies in favor of Gibson Guitar, ignores reasons instrument-maker is under investigation

Obama administration opens more of the Arctic to drilling

Satellite imagery confirms Dole destroying national park land for bananas

Tea party versus Madagascar’s forests

Dole responds to allegations it is illegally growing bananas in national park

Deepwater spill ‘meets the Titanic’: groups sue to stop Arctic drilling

Judge: work must halt on monster dam, Belo Monte

U.S. Lacey Act, programs in Rwanda and Gambia, awarded for forest protection

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