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Kenya’s forests squeezed as government pressures environment groups

David Njagi 6 May 2016

Indigenous and forest community leaders tour the EU to call for conflict-free palm oil

Mike Gaworecki 4 May 2016

Cambodia declares protected area in hotly contested Prey Lang forest

Daniel Pye 2 May 2016

Peru’s climate commitments threatened by advancing oil palm

Milton López Tarabochia 28 Apr 2016

A decade in the making: EU, Indonesia to start licensing scheme for legal timber shipments

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2016

Illegal logging “mafia” arrested in Peru

Mike Gaworecki 27 Apr 2016

Mill owner in Washington gets prison time for trafficking in illegally harvested wood

Mike Gaworecki 20 Apr 2016

West African countries come together to stop the illegal rosewood trade

Mike Gaworecki 12 Apr 2016

Half of World Heritage Sites threatened by ‘harmful industrial activities’, new report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2016

DiCaprio endorses petition to save Sumatra’s last great rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2016

Ecuadorean government aims to stop one road from going into Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 21 Mar 2016

Killing of Guatemalan activist in the Maya Biosphere Reserve raises alarm

Sandra Cuffe 18 Mar 2016
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Indigenous forest activist released from prison amid Cambodian crackdown

Rod Harbinson 17 Mar 2016

Drop in timber smuggling gives ‘breathing space’ to Myanmar’s forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Mar 2016

DNA evidence just helped convict illegal loggers in the US Pacific Northwest

Mike Gaworecki 10 Mar 2016

Rogue cop-turned-logger recaptured in Papua after latest prison break

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2016

Hunt for rare fragrance is pushing one of world’s most expensive trees towards extinction: Al Jazeera documentary

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Mar 2016

Convicted Indonesian police officer and illegal logger on the run once again

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2016

DRC announces intent to reopen its rainforests to logging companies

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Mar 2016

China’s log imports fall sharply

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2016

Review finds EU plan to curb illegal logging has had little success

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Feb 2016

Threatened West African rosewood species gets CITES protection

Mike Gaworecki 16 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Photos: Can helping local people save an embattled Nigerian park?

Lawal Sani Kona 20 Jan 2016

International embargo on exports of Madagascar’s precious woods extended

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jan 2016

Countries call for new CITES protections for rosewood species

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

Is eco-certification the solution to forest destruction?

Saul Elbein 14 Jan 2016

China’s demand for rosewood is destroying forests in Southeast Asia and, increasingly, In Africa

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2015

The most recent seizure shows the scale and extent of illegal timber trafficking in Peru

Ruxandra Guidi 14 Dec 2015

Romania struggles to turn the tide of illegal logging

Greg Norman 4 Dec 2015

DNA and beyond: The challenges of identifying wood and addressing illegal timber products

Caleb O'Brien 25 Nov 2015

EU scheme failing to stop timber trafficking, finds audit

John Cannon 20 Nov 2015

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