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Conservation scientists: Aceh’s spatial plan a risk to forests, wildlife, and people

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2013

Roads could help protect the environment rather than destroy it, argues Nature paper

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2013

Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare birds, rice wine, and talk of tigers

Howie Nielsen 14 Mar 2013

Aceh claims deal to open 1.2M ha of protected forest to logging, mining is near

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2013

Burning coal may be killing over 100,000 people in India every year

Jeremy Hance 13 Mar 2013

Brazilian agency rejects Canadian company’s bid to mine controversial Amazon dam site for gold

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2013

In search of conflict-free tin from the Congo

Guest Mike Loch 12 Feb 2013

Amazon river ecosystems being rapidly degraded, but remain neglected by conservation efforts

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Feb 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Indonesian province of East Kalimantan imposes moratorium on deforestation

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2013

Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Jeremy Hance 29 Jan 2013

Large blocks of Sumatra’s endangered rainforest may be put up for mining, logging

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2013

New website tracks protected areas under attack

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2013

Troops in Madagascar free miners held hostage by local protesters

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2013

Gold mine approved in French Guiana’s only national park

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2013

Environment ministry drops copper mine in Zambezi park

Caillie Mutterback 7 Jan 2013

The year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2012

108 million ha of Amazon rainforest up for oil and gas exploration, development

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2012

Mining boom in the Amazon

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2012

Illegal logging, mining worsened impact of Philippines’ killer typhoon

Jeremy Hance 6 Dec 2012

Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2012

Featured video: how locals depend on Kalimantan’s vanishing forests

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Indian coal giant targets forests

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2012

Tanzania weighs new soda ash plant in prime flamingo territory

Jenny R. Isaacs 8 Nov 2012

New rare frog discovered in Sri Lanka, but left wholly unprotected

Darren Lloyd 5 Nov 2012

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 22 Oct 2012

Livelihoods depend on the environment in the Western Ghats

Viraj Singh 27 Sep 2012

Scientists name new snake species to criticize mine plans in Panama (photos)

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2012

Survivors say gold miners in helicopter massacred village of 80 in Venezuelan Amazon

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2012

Move to regularize mining in Colombia spurs concerns

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2012

Nintendo is ‘worst’ company on conflict minerals

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2012

Controversial deep sea mining project approved in Papua New Guinea, first of its kind

Jeremy Hance 9 Aug 2012

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