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Carbon Financing and Community Forestry

Dangers for journalists who expose environmental issues

Brazil may ban sugarcane plantations from the Amazon, Pantanal

Heavy oil pollution remains in Amazon, despite company claiming clean-up is finished

Fifteen indigenous leaders arrested in Borneo for protesting dams that would flood their lands

Independent review finds logging company has abused rights of indigenous Penan in Borneo

Economists, scientists warn that world crises require new order of international cooperation and enforcement

France announces carbon tax

World Bank’s IFC suspends lending to palm oil companies

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Could DNA barcodes help fight the commercial wildlife trade? [warning: graphic image]

Van Jones resigns amid controversy

Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak

Vietnam outsources deforestation to neighboring countries

Penan tribe to continue blockade against loggers with blowpipes and spears

The Pope: “creation is under threat”

World’s largest bat threatened with extinction due to legal hunting

Gold mining threatens world’s most infamous reptile, the Komodo dragon

Environmental disappointments under Obama

Appalling photos reveal lemur carnage in Madagascar [warning: graphic images]

Idaho to allow 25 percent of its wolf population to be killed in one season

World Bank violated environmental rules in lending to palm oil companies, finds internal audit

Photos reveal illegal logging near uncontacted natives in Peru

Police face murder charges in killing of indigenous protesters in Peru

Despite legal protection, Indian turtles are poached for restaurant trade

Peru to proceed with oil and gas auctions in the Amazon despite indigenous protests

Madagascar issues fines for timber stolen from national parks during political crisis

Peru to raise payment to indigenous communities for Amazon forest conservation

Weeks after bloodshed, American oil moves into Peruvian Amazon, putting rainforest, possible archeological site at risk

Alcoa mine to clear 25,000 acres of rainforest, suck 133,407 gallons of water per hour from the Amazon

Forest people set up logging blockades in Borneo

Chinese companies to be held liable for environmental damage caused overseas

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