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Has Brazil turned against its progressive environmental policies?

Forgotten species: the nearly extinct primate that can be shot on sight

Malaysia clearcutting forest reserves for timber and palm oil

Loose laws threaten Australia’s wildlife

Tools against climate change: carbon tax and cap-and-trade

Six smugglers sentenced to jail time over pangolin trafficking in Malaysia

Two children given lifetime gag order on fracking impacts

Zoos call on governments to take urgent action against illegal wildlife trade (photos)

Dominican Republic sends bulldozers to destroy wildlife reserve, home to endangered species

Weak laws governing Malaysia’s indigenous people complicate conservation efforts

Obama to take on elephant and rhino poaching in Africa

New forensic method tells the difference between poached and legal ivory

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

Colombian mining dispute highlights legislative disarray

Australia aims to end Japan’s whaling

60 big cats killed in Brazilian parks in last two years

Southern U.S. logging soars to meet foreign biofuel demand

Monitor lizards vanishing to international trade in pets and skins

Indonesian official arrested for running $150m illegal logging ring

Bulk of Ghana timber exports may be illegal

Prince Charles: take the war to the poachers

Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Brazil’s satellite monitoring reduced Amazon deforestation by 60,000 sq km in 5 years

Central America’s largest forest under siege by colonists

Court rules for palm oil company in controversial deforestation case

Conservation without supervision: Peruvian community group creates and patrols its own protected area

Obama Administration to propose stripping protection from all gray wolves

Bizarre, little-known carnivore sold as illegal pet in Indonesian markets (photo)

‘Carbon bubble’ could cause next global financial crisis

A new tool against illegal logging: tree DNA technology goes mainstream

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

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