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Fishing for coherent regulations along Fiji’s coral reefs

Amy West 16 Jul 2014

Despite moratorium, Indonesia now has world’s highest deforestation rate

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jun 2014

Dying for Fiji’s Sea Cucumbers

Amy West 23 Jun 2014

PhD students ‘thrilled’ to rediscover mammal missing for 124 years

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

Malaysian palm oil giant loses PNG case, plantations declared illegal

Mongabay.com 24 May 2014

Former Miss South Pacific steps into new conservation role

Amy West 15 May 2014

Palm oil plan unlikely to help communities in Indonesian New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2014

New Caledonia officially creates world’s largest protected area (photos)

Mongabay.com 2 May 2014

Papua New Guinea pledges to cancel massive land grabs by timber companies

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2014

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Illegal logging makes up 70 percent of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2014

Extinction crisis: rising sea levels will submerge thousands of islands

Bobbie Edwards 8 Apr 2014

Malaysian palm oil giant tied to social conflict, deforestation, says report

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2014

Indonesian sugar company poised to destroy half of island paradise’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Mar 2014

Procter & Gamble’s palm oil suppliers linked to deforestation (photos)

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Feb 2014

Indonesian cop caught smuggling rare timber worth millions escapes with 2-year sentence

Diana Parker 21 Feb 2014

Indonesia rejects, delays 1.3m ha of concessions due to moratorium

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Feb 2014

Protected forests linked to healthy coral reefs in Fiji

Andrew Mann 27 Jan 2014

Two journalists awarded prizes for reporting on fisheries in the Pacific

Mongabay 20 Jan 2014

PHOTOS: Glowing fish – study finds widespread biofluorescence among fish

Mongabay.com 10 Jan 2014

New Guinea animals losing vital tree cavities to logging, hunting practices

Bobbie Edwards 17 Dec 2013

3.5 million ha of Indonesian and Malaysian forest converted for palm oil in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2013

Beetles in the spotlight: a new species of burying beetle from the Solomon Islands Archipelago

Raja Bandi 7 Nov 2013

Palm oil giant to forgo development of New Guinea rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Nov 2013

Bolivia, Madagascar, China see jump in forest loss

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2013

‘Lost’ bird rediscovered in New Caledonia along with 16 potentially new species (photos)

Jeremy Hance 29 Oct 2013

98% of marine fish headed for the aquarium trade die within a year in the Philippines

Natalie Millar 22 Oct 2013

Scientists outline how to save nearly 70 percent of the world’s plant species

Jeremy Hance 5 Sep 2013

Agribusiness project leaves indigenous communities in Indonesian New Guinea hungry and in poverty, report says

Diana Parker 3 Sep 2013

Solomon Islands’ banks shut down logging company accounts

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2013

Palm oil licenses provide cover for logging in New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2013

Former cop to face charges in illegal logging scandal, Indonesian police say

Diana Parker 30 Jul 2013

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