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Peru’s uncontacted Amazon tribes under attack

Indonesia to audit all timber operations to cut illegal logging

Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end

Environmental crime worth $10 billion per year

Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world’s rarest gorilla

Ghana becomes first country to sign sustainable timber pact with the E.U.

Malaysian logging scandal may delay trade negotiations with the E.U.

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

Aquarium fish trade linked to cocaine, timber smuggling in Brazil

Woolworths drops contract with APP, activist group remains wary

1.2 million ha of Congo rainforest certified for sustainable forestry

Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Logging company Danzer accused of tax fraud in the Congo

Newly discovered monkey is critically endangered by logging, poaching

Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging

Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging

Wal-Mart to ban sales of wood products from threatened rainforests

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

EU may mandate certification system for Amazon timber

Forests face governance challenges

40 arrested in illegal timber raid in the Brazilian Amazon

No sacrifices to ending deforestation in the Amazon, only gains

Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader

The FSC is the ‘Enron of forestry’ says rainforest activist

Indigenous peoples of Congo map their forests with GPS in an effort to save them

Lungless frog discovered in Borneo

The FSC responds to its critics

Asia Pulp & Paper destroying rare Sumatra forest

U.S. furniture demand drives illegal logging in Laos

Amazon environmentalist gunned down in Peru

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