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Malaysia and China agree to $11 billion deal to build mines, dams in Borneo

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2010

Photos: massive spider discovered in Middle East is greatly endangered

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2010

Scientists call for an end to mountaintop removal mining in the US

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2010

Guyana to increase oversight of gold mining under deal to save forests with Norway

Jeremy Hance 21 Dec 2009

High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2009

Cement mining puts Dominican Republic park at risk

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2009

Crowned sifaka population on the verge of local extinction: dispatch from the field

Josia Razafindramanana 8 Sep 2009

Saving Africa’s ‘unicorn’, the okapi

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

Mining and biodiversity offsets in Madagascar: Conservation or ‘Conservation Opportunities?’

Rowan Moore Gerety 30 Aug 2009

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

Jeremy Hance 24 Aug 2009

Environmental disappointments under Obama

Jeremy Hance 24 Aug 2009

Largely unexplored rainforest slated to be leveled for gold mining in Colombia

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2009

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

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2009

Borneo orangutan release in jeopardy over fate of coal mining concession

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2009

Peru may take military action against Indians protesting Amazon energy development

Mongabay.com 19 May 2009

Gabonese environmental activist receives prize for standing up to government, Chinese company

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2009

Land rights victory for Amazon Indians in Brazil

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2009

Biologists warn of rainforest mining threat from Alcoa, Newmont in Suriname

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2009

Nickel mine in Madagascar may threaten lemurs, undermine conservation efforts

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jan 2009

Limestone karsts – islands of biodiversity in Asia – under threat from mining

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2008

In final weeks, President Bush aims to extend his environmental legacy

Jeremy Hance 9 Nov 2008

Peru’s uncontacted Amazon tribes under attack

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2008

Palawan’s wildlife faces extinction risk due to mining, pet trade

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2008

Commercial bushmeat trade is devastating wildlife

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Malaysia pushes Borneo rainforest logging by deposing tribal leaders

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2008

Rare monkeys double in number in China but remain under threat

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2008

Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru’s President Garcia

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2008

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2008

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2008

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