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Forest protection funds flow to DRC despite ‘illegal’ logging permits

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2017
Deforestation for pulp and paper production in Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Norway starts $400-million fund to halt deforestation, help farmers

Mongabay 31 Jan 2017

Deforestation rises with incomes in developing economies

John Cannon 30 Jan 2017

Record heat and drought seen in Amazon during 2015-16 El Niño

Claire Salisbury 30 Jan 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

Fragmentation boosts carbon storage along temperate forest edges

John Cannon 9 Jan 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups raise red flags over Jokowi’s widely acclaimed haze law

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Dec 2016

Sapphire boom propels thousands into Madagascar rainforest

John Cannon 1 Dec 2016

Could REDD help save an embattled forest in Cambodia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2016
Auyna Tepui in Parque Nacional Canaima, part of the Guiana Shield. Photo by Christoph Kühnhanss via Wikimedia Commons.

The Guiana Shield, the ‘greenhouse of the world’

Akola Thompson 19 Oct 2016

Study finds Brazil isn’t counting all deforestation in official estimates

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2016

A cost-benefit analysis of securing indigenous land rights in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 11 Oct 2016

Going green with the aviation industry (commentary)

Devan Wardwell, Jeffrey Chatellier 29 Sep 2016
A mangrove forest in Daintree, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

On World Mangrove Day, 9 things to know about these tough plants

Melati Kaye 26 Jul 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

Alec Baldwin, Helen Clark join Indigenous leaders calling for forest protections and land rights to combat climate change

Mike Gaworecki 21 Apr 2016

China’s forests are growing back – but at a cost

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Apr 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

Forest restoration: from Stone Age to drone age

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2016

Conservationists part ways on primary forest logging

Saul Elbein 29 Feb 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015

Loss of big animals reduces forests’ carbon-storing capacity

Loren Bell 19 Dec 2015

Rainforests could provide half global climate solution by 2050

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Nov 2015

‘Maybe that’s why there’s so many fires’: Was a peat swamp illegitimately stripped of protected status in Indonesia?

Jay Fajar, Sapariah Saturi 2 Oct 2015

Norway pays Brazil $1B to fulfill pledge for curbing deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Sep 2015

Borneo’s rainforest may get high-tech 3D scan to boost conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2015

Selective logging leaves more dead wood in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2015

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