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Sumatran tiger faces extinction due to wildlife trade

First photos of face-to-face mating by gorillas in the wild

Staples dumps Asia Pulp & Paper over its destruction of virgin rainforests

Madagascar’s tortoises at high risk of extinction in the wild

France blocks controversial rainforest gold mine in French Guiana

Overfishing may hurt Amazon forest trees

Papua New Guinea’s Environment Minister says foreign firms attempted to bribe him

Globl warming worsening U.S. water crisis

Largest body of geologists issues warning on global warming

Sustainability mandated for biofuels used in the EU

55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030

Border fence may drive largest American cat to extinction

Malaysian timber firm fined for illegal rainforest logging in Guyana

Rich countries grow at ecological expense of poor countries

E.U. may ban palm oil biodiesel

Sierra Leone bans timber exports

Politics and the Amazon

Paper giant illegally destroying orangutan habitat in Indonesia says WWF

Rainforest chief killed in Borneo for his opposition to logging

Madagascar increases fines for forest burning

Japan cancels plan to kill 50 humpback whales

Uganda renews plans to log rainforest reserve for sugar cane

Could carbon credits-for-forest conservation (REDD) reduce terrorism and global warming?

Thailand’s forests could support 2,000 tigers

Did U.S. negotiators go against the Bush administration in Bali?

Bali delegates agree to support forests-for-climate (REDD) plan

Scientists: cut emissions now to avoid climate tipping point

U.S. corn subsidies drive Amazon destruction

U.S. contributes $0 to World Bank’s new $300m forest carbon fund

U.S. hijacks climate talks, kills rainforest conservation plan

Aceh, Papua, Amazonas governors sign carbon-for-forests pact

Bali talks update: Brazil blocks deforestation initiative, US stalls

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