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Indonesia announces moratorium on granting new forest concessions

Researchers: Madagascar rosewoods deserve CITES protection

Photos: the penis-like mushroom and other top 10 new species of 2009

Photos reveal paradise-like site for coal plant in Borneo

Photos: more new species found in Indonesia’s ‘lost world’

Photo: Fire-headed dragon discovered in Southeast Asia

New report alleges Sarawak government, police, and loggers “act in collusion to harass and intimidate indigenous communities”

Turning to the matrix: a more accurate way to predict extinction

Hope for survival as isolated orangutans joined by rope bridge

Forgotten species: the subterranean Gekko gigante

New blind snake discovery

Scientists discover world’s first amphibious insects: Hawaiian caterpillars

The Asian Animal Crisis

Forgotten Species: the marooned pygmy three-toed sloth

Environmental groups call on Delmas to cancel shipment of illegally logged wood from Madagascar

Falklands Dispute: Argentine Sovereignty Won’t Solve the Problem

Thousands of tons of illegal timber in Madagascar readied for export

Sharks swim safe around the Maldives

Photos: Madagascar’s wonderful and wild frogs, an interview with Sahonagasy

Galapagos fur seals exploit warmer waters to establish colony off Peru

Where two worlds collide: visiting Tabin Wildlife Reserve

Humans push half of the world’s primates toward extinction, lemurs in particular trouble

Video: Sunda clouded leopard caught on film for the first time

Extinct: last of the Andaman tribe dies

Satellite photo of the world’s tallest building and “The World” islands in Dubai

Half of Indonesia’s species remain unknown

Photos: New tropical frog undergoes remarkable transformation

Little more than 10,000 hectares of rainforest remains on Java

Indonesia plans to sell endangered tigers as pets to the wealthy

Conservation organization, Durrell Wildlife Trust, forced to cut staff due to economic downturn

The Caribbean’s wonderfully weird (and threatened) mammals, an interview with Jose Nunez-Mino

Researchers catch new cricket species going where no cricket has gone before

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