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‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2012

Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2012

BP fined $4.5 billion for Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but company may spend more buying its own stocks

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2012

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2012

Foreign loggers and corrupt officials flouting logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jeremy Hance 8 Nov 2012

Over 100,000 farmers squatting in Sumatran park to grow coffee

Jeremy Hance 6 Nov 2012

‘The ivory trade is like drug trafficking’ (warning graphic images)

Alejandra Martins 5 Nov 2012

Leopard poaching is a bigger problem in India than previously believed

Caillie Mutterback 31 Oct 2012

Indonesia remains epicenter for illegal wildlife trade in reptiles and amphibians

Dr Liz Kimbrough 24 Oct 2012

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 22 Oct 2012

Most controversial aspects of Brazil’s new Forest Code vetoed as legislation signed into law

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2012

Brazil forms special environmental security force to combat spike in deforestation

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 8 Oct 2012

Wax palm can be sustainably harvested

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Illegal lobster fishermen slammed with over $50 million penalty

Jeremy Hance 21 Aug 2012

Move to regularize mining in Colombia spurs concerns

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2012

Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazilian court, appeal likely but difficult

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2012

A new tool for taking on elephant poaching: DNA forensics

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2012

Gibson Guitar to pay $300,000 for violating Lacey Act with illegal timber imports from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2012

Indigenous tribes hold 3 engineers hostage over Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 26 Jul 2012

Indonesia to investigate palm oil company’s alleged breach of deforestation moratorium

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2012

Endangered fruit bats, and many other species, on the menu in the Philippines

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2012

President Rousseff vetoes some controversial changes to Brazil’s Forest Code

Mongabay.com 29 May 2012

Indigenous group paid $0.65/ha for forest worth $5,000/ha in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2012

Indonesia’s Environment Ministry to sue APP, APRIL in $225B illegal logging case

Mongabay.com 3 May 2012

NGO: lifting sanctions on Myanmar must lead to forestry reform

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2012

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2012

David vs. Goliath: Goldman Environmental Prize winners highlight development projects gone awry

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2012

Police hired by loggers in Papua New Guinea lock locals in shipping containers

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2012

Green groups may call for boycott of Indonesian palm oil over forest destruction in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 11 Apr 2012

Blood rosewood: Thailand and Cambodia team up to tackle illegal logging crisis and save lives

Jeremy Hance 11 Apr 2012

U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru’s Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2012

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