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Over a million pangolins slaughtered in the last decade

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

Regional court kills controversial Serengeti Highway

Jeremy Hance 23 Jun 2014

Billy Joel welcomes New York Senate’s approval of ivory ban

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2014

New York State Assembly approves bill banning ivory trade

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2014

Epidemic of elephant calf kidnapping hits Sri Lanka, say conservationists

Shreya Dasgupta 21 May 2014

53 indigenous activists on trial for police-protester massacre in Peru

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

Chinese poachers caught with 555 marine turtles, most dead (PHOTOS)

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

Chinese luxury furniture linked to murder, near extinction

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2014

Almost 90 percent of Republic of the Congo’s lowland forests open to logging

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2014

Saudi Prince kills two percent of global population of endangered bird

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2014

Chinese who eat endangered species could face over ten years in jail

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2014

Brazil’s new Forest Code a mixed bag for native ecosystems

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2014

Brazil to test drones in monitoring the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com, Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2014

Illegal logging makes up 70 percent of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2014

Nearly a thousand environmental activists murdered since 2002

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2014

Nearly 90 percent of logging in the DRC is illegal

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2014

Just how bad is the logging crisis in Myanmar? 72 percent of exports illegal

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2014

Featured video: indigenous tribe faces loggers, ranchers, and murder in bid to save their forests

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2014

Indonesia’s proposed peat law too weak to protect peatlands, stop haze, says Greenpeace

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2014

New web tool aims to help indigenous groups protect forests and navigate REDD+

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2014

Europe not doing enough to stop illegal logging imports says Greenpeace

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2014

Indonesian cop caught smuggling rare timber worth millions escapes with 2-year sentence

Diana Parker 21 Feb 2014

Conservation groups launch new whistleblower site for wildlife and forest crimes

Jeremy Hance 18 Feb 2014

One person killed, two injured in elephant attacks in Indonesia this year

Diana Parker 12 Feb 2014

Obama announces new strategy to tackle wildlife trafficking, including toughening ivory ban

Jeremy Hance 12 Feb 2014

Over 2,500 wolves killed in U.S.’s lower 48 since 2011

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2014

Court orders logging company to clean up pollution disaster in Chile wetlands

Franziska Green 17 Jan 2014

In precedent-setting case, palm oil company fined $30M for destroying orangutan forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jan 2014

Madagascar’s most famous lemur facing big threats

Marni Lafleur 18 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Brazil could boost agriculture without destroying forests

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2013

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