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

Ethan Harfenist 21 Oct 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Indonesian law bars palm oil companies from protecting forests

Rhett A. Butler 21 Oct 2014

Indonesia developing mega coal mine five times larger than Singapore

David Fogarty 20 Oct 2014

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

David Fogarty 17 Oct 2014

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

David Fogarty 16 Oct 2014

India plans huge palm oil expansion, puts forests at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Oct 2014

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

Morgan Erickson-Davis 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

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

Rhett A. Butler 5 Oct 2014

Will ‘Asia’s unicorn’ survive? Hunting and deforestation continue in Vietnam biosphere reserve PART II

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 2014

The largest biosphere reserve in Southeast Asia: Vietnam’s success story or a conservation failure? PART I

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Sep 2014

Diverse, deceptive, declining: orchids threatened by deforestation in South America

Julian Moll-rocek 26 Sep 2014

Reintroduction program ups Mexico’s scarlet macaw population by 34 percent in one year

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Sep 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

Scientists use genes, feces to study disappearing monkeys

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Sep 2014

Norway to pay Liberia to stop deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Sep 2014

Dissolving pulp: the threat to Indonesia’s forests you’ve probably never heard of

Mike Gaworecki 23 Sep 2014

Changing climate, changing conservation paradigms in Canada’s boreal forests

Julian Moll-rocek 19 Sep 2014

From ‘production’ forests to protected forests, groups work to save Sumatran orangutan habitat. But will it be enough?

Ethan Harfenist 16 Sep 2014

As Bolivia plans dramatic agro-expansion, forests may pay the price (PART II)

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Sep 2014

Brazil confirms last year’s rise in Amazon deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 12 Sep 2014

Illegal tropical deforestation driven globally by “agro-conversion”

John Cannon 11 Sep 2014

FSC meeting weighs old-growth forest protection, smallholder participation

Rhett A. Butler 11 Sep 2014

Bolivian vice president proposes unprecedented agricultural expansion (PART 1)

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Sep 2014

Elephants pay the price for palm oil in Malaysian Borneo, impact may reach far beyond reported kills

Mike Gaworecki 10 Sep 2014

Canada, Russia, Brazil lead world in old-growth forest loss

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Sep 2014

‘A global tragedy’ in the making? Thailand plans highway expansion through World Heritage Site

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Aug 2014

More trouble with tar sands: oil extraction leading to big forest loss in Alberta

Dr Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2014

Authorities stop ‘greatest destroyers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Aug 2014

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2014

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