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Rainforest conservation could offset 500m tons of CO2 emissions at $2/ton

New plan would pay tropical countries for saving forests, regardless of level of threat

Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging

Secret power plan would devastate Sarawak’s rainforest with 12 new hydropower plants

Leaf-cutter ants test theories about the Amazon’s biodiversity

How to replant a mangrove forest: local, low-cost initiatives prove most successful

Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests

Mangroves are key to healthy fisheries, finds study

Moving species may be only way to save them from climate change

Forests cover 1/3 of U.S. but are responsible for 2/3 of its water supply

Fruit bats frequent clay-licks in the Amazon rainforest

Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought

Wal-Mart to ban sales of wood products from threatened rainforests

Environmentalists protest proposed logging of Malaysian forest reserve

Pine beetles attack Canada, boosting GHG emissions

Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

Colorful insects help search for anti-cancer drugs

Britain urges ‘cautious approach’ on biofuels

Carbon payments may not protect biodiversity

Australia’s largest retailer Woolworths greenwashes rainforest destruction in Indonesia, allege activists

Orangutan populations drop due to logging, expansion for palm oil

Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing

Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations

Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically

Malaysian government says no more forest clearing for oil palm plantations

Tropical biodiversity on “a trajectory toward disaster”

Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations

Elephants may explain Mount Kilimanjaro’s bamboo enigma

Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation

Global warming threatens California’s native plants

Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products

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