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Gold mining expanding rapidly along Guiana Shield, threatening forests, water, wildlife

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Oct 2014

Colombia reports drop in deforestation

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2014

‘No forests, no cash’: palm oil giants commit to sustainability, but will they follow through?

Ethan Harfenist 21 Oct 2014

Coal, climate and orangutans – Indonesia’s quandary

Daniel Stiles 21 Oct 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Saving Asia’s other endangered cats (photos)

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Indonesian law bars palm oil companies from protecting forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2014

Indonesia developing mega coal mine five times larger than Singapore

David Fogarty 20 Oct 2014

Walking the walk: zoo kicks off campaign for orangutans and sustainable palm oil

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2014

Indonesia’s tough choice: capping coal as Asian demand grows

David Fogarty 17 Oct 2014

Push to undermine Indonesia’s new president could stymie environmental progress, say NGOs

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2014

To become less damaging, target non-forest lands for palm oil, says book

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Oct 2014

Indonesia tries to clamp down on coal sector’s worst excesses

David Fogarty 16 Oct 2014

Daring activists use high-tech to track illegal logging trucks in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2014

Scientists find temperate bat in the hot tropics of the Western Ghats (photos)

Jordanna Dulaney 15 Oct 2014

Researchers create global map of world’s forests circa 1990

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2014

As Amazon deforestation falls, small farmers play bigger role in forest clearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2014

India plans huge palm oil expansion, puts forests at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Oct 2014

Plantation companies in Sumatra failing to meet fire prevention standards

Loren Bell 14 Oct 2014

‘River wolves’ recover in Peruvian park, but still remain threatened inside and out (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2014

Another environmental journalist killed in Cambodia

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2014

Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?

John Cannon 10 Oct 2014

‘A remarkable conservation achievement’: Ecuador reserve expands as forest disappears

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Oct 2014

Forest fragmentation’s carbon bomb: 736 million tonnes C02 annually

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

Brazil unlikely to sustain gains in reducing deforestation without new incentives for ranchers, says study

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2014

Helping orangutans survive: new project aims to connect habitat fragments in Kalimantan (PART II)

Apoorva Joshi 8 Oct 2014

Marooned in shrinking forests, Bornean orangutans hang on as disaster looms (PART I)

Apoorva Joshi 7 Oct 2014

An impossible balancing act? Forests benefit from isolation, but at cost to local communities

Anna Ikarashi 7 Oct 2014

Use of mammals still prevalent in Brazil’s Conservation Units

Annam Raza 6 Oct 2014

The Zanaga iron ore mine – a test of best laid plans for preserving wildlife

Daniel Stiles 6 Oct 2014

Report rates palm oil companies on sustainability commitments

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Oct 2014

Central Kalimantan to set up palm oil monitoring system to in bid cut deforestation 80%

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Oct 2014

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