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Plant communities changing across the globe, says scientist Sasha Wright

Advancements in satellite technology will help scientists and policy makers map and monitor forest carbon

More than 300 gorillas butchered each year in the Republic of Congo

Malaysian palm oil targets the Amazon

Scramble to log Madagascar’s valuable rainforest trees in midst of crisis

REDD in Indonesia could evict forest people from their lands, warns U.N. committee

Will palm oil drive deforestation in the Amazon?

Land rights victory for Amazon Indians in Brazil

DR Congo, Indonesia, PNG, Tanzania, Vietnam win REDD funding for forest conservation

Norway emerges as champion of rainforest conservation

37,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed or damaged in 2008

Economic crisis hurts forestry sector, sustainability initiatives

Historic US law now extends to illegal logging

Elephants populations in the Congo drop 80 percent in fifty years

In exchange for marriage certificate Indonesians must donate trees

Drought threatens the Amazon rainforest as a carbon sink

Amazon deforestation drops 70% for Nov 2008-Jan 2009 period

Climate change could devastate lizards in the tropics

Tigers continue killing rampage in Indonesia

Cameroon may liquidate rainforest reserve if conservationists don’t step forward

14,000-barrel oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon

Deforestation blamed for tiger maulings in Sumatra

Whole Foods bans unsustainable palm oil from its products

Biologists warn of rainforest mining threat from Alcoa, Newmont in Suriname

ACCOR hotel chain linked to destructive logging in Borneo?

24% of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest destroyed or degraded by logging in 30 years

New fire record for Borneo, Sumatra shows dramatic increase in rainforest destruction

Indonesia confirms that peatlands will be converted for plantations

Rainforests absorb 20% of emissions annually

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

Deforestation jumps 55% in Vietnam province

Burning rainforests, melting tundra could accelerate global warming well beyond current projections

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