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What lies within, we may never know: deforestation threatening Sulawesi’s unique wildlife

Apoorva Joshi 26 Aug 2014

Can it be stopped? Ghana’s forests ‘could completely disappear in less than 25 years’

Judy Ogutu 25 Aug 2014

An uncertain future: world’s last wild Siberian tigers threatened by illegal logging, global warming, disease (PART II)

Sandhya Sekar 22 Aug 2014

Have scientists discovered a new primate in the Philippines?

Jeremy Hance 21 Aug 2014

Running to reforest: communities, NGOs work to save Ugandan reserve in the midst of massive deforestation

Benon Herbert Oluka 21 Aug 2014

Looming mining ‘tsunami’ set to take Africa by storm

John Cannon 20 Aug 2014

Logging of Russian Far East damaging tiger habitat, few intact forests protected (Part I)

Sandhya Sekar 19 Aug 2014

When forests aren’t really forests: the high cost of Chile’s tree plantations

Julian Moll-rocek 18 Aug 2014

Nothing else left to log: are eco-certified timber companies stripping Russia of its last old growth forests?

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Aug 2014

Indonesia cracks down on illegal burning, investigates more suspect companies

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 14 Aug 2014

‘Natural Reserves’ no more: illegal colonists deforest huge portions of Nicaraguan protected areas

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 13 Aug 2014

A paradise being lost: Peru’s most important forests felled for timber, crops, roads, mining

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Aug 2014

Singapore to fine domestic, foreign companies for causing haze

Rhett A. Butler 7 Aug 2014

Tin mining, palm oil plantations wreaking havoc on small Indonesian island

Ethan Harfenist 4 Aug 2014

Where have all the big animals gone? Indian park devoid of many species, further threatened by forest loss

Janaki Lenin 4 Aug 2014

The Philippines: where ‘megadiversity’ meets mega deforestation

Shaira Panela 31 Jul 2014

Conservation controversy: are bonobos protected in the right ways and in the right places?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jul 2014

Deforestation ramping up in Yasuni as Ecuador sets to open up national park to drilling

Shaira Panela 29 Jul 2014

Palm oil company clears rainforest in New Guinea

Rhett A. Butler 29 Jul 2014

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

True stewards: new report says local communities key to saving forests, curbing global warming

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Jul 2014

NASA: Sumatra fires in the rise

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2014

Roads through the rainforest: an overview of South America’s ‘arc of deforestation’

Dr Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2014

Is there hope for bonobos? Researchers, NGOs, gov’t officials, local communities band together to save iconic ape (Part III)

Fidelis Zvomuya 18 Jul 2014

Poaching, fires, farming pervade: protecting bonobos ‘an enormous challenge’ (Part II)

Fidelis Zvomuya 17 Jul 2014

Surrounded by deforestation, critically endangered gorillas hang on by a thread

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jul 2014

30% of Borneo’s rainforests destroyed since 1973

Rhett A. Butler 16 Jul 2014

Will the last ape found be the first to go? Bonobos’ biggest refuge under threat (Part I)

Fidelis Zvomuya 16 Jul 2014

On track to ‘go beyond the critical point’: Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip

Janaki Lenin 15 Jul 2014

An end to India’s ‘Wild West’? Meghalaya bans coal mining… for now

Janaki Lenin 8 Jul 2014

Malaysian citizens want govt to spend more to save native rainforests

Loren Bell 30 Jun 2014

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

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