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Sri Lanka to give poached ivory to Buddhist temple, flouting international agreements

Gorilla paradise: new park safeguards 15,000 western lowland gorillas

Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Forests in Kenya worth much more intact says government report

Illegally logged trees to start calling for help

Obama: ‘We will respond to the threat of climate change’

New website tracks protected areas under attack

Gold mine approved in French Guiana’s only national park

Paradigm shift needed to avert global environmental collapse, according to author of new book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse

Environment ministry drops copper mine in Zambezi park

Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack of ambition

Illegal logging, mining worsened impact of Philippines’ killer typhoon

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Science and Public Reason – book review

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

World has lost half its wetlands

Featured video: how locals depend on Kalimantan’s vanishing forests

Legislation leaves future of world’s largest temperate rainforest up in the air

Photos reveal destruction of Cameroon rainforest for palm oil

Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad

BP fined $4.5 billion for Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but company may spend more buying its own stocks

Obama criticized for lack of urgency on climate change

Penan suspend dam blockade, give government one month to respond to demands

Obama breaks climate silence at press conference

Controversial wolf hunt moves to the Midwest, 196 wolves killed to date

Foreign loggers and corrupt officials flouting logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Development halted in crucial wildlife corridor in Malaysia

Controversial dam gets approval in Laos

Over 100,000 farmers squatting in Sumatran park to grow coffee

‘The ivory trade is like drug trafficking’ (warning graphic images)

Above the ocean: saving the world’s most threatened birds

Future of the Tongass forest lies in salmon, not clear-cut logging

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