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New rule grants rainforest to mining firms in Indonesia for $80/acre

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Mar 2008

How activists and scientists saved a rainforest island from destruction for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 12 Feb 2008

Papua New Guinea’s Environment Minister says foreign firms attempted to bribe him

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2008

Photos: Two unknown mammal species discovered in “lost world”

Mongabay.com 16 Dec 2007

70% of rainforest island to be cleared for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2007

Carbon credits for forest conservation concept faces challenges

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2007

Planned logging of Woodlark Island for biofuels opposed by islanders and scientists

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2007

Papua seeks funds for fighting global warming through forest conservation

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2007

Lowland rainforest less diverse than previously thought

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2007

‘Extinct’ egg-laying mammal rediscovered in jungles of New Guinea

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2007

Photos of baby Matschie’s tree kangaroo

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2007

Rare kangaroos released into New Guinea rainforest

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2007

Indonesia’s Aceh, Papua pledge to protect forests

Reuters 26 Apr 2007

China’s demand for hardwood drives illegal logging says Greenpeace

Reuters 17 Apr 2007

Indonesia seeks to increase deforestation rate, already world’s highest

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2007

Amazon, Madagascar, Borneo are top plant biodiversity hotspots

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2007

Just how bad is the biodiversity extinction crisis?

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2007

China invests in $5.5B biofuels project in Borneo, New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jan 2007

Papua New Guinea log exports to China surge

R. Butler 19 Dec 2006

New species of orchids discovered in Papua New Guinea

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2006

Rainforest conservation could yield more cash than logging in PNG

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2006

Japan depletes Borneo’s rainforests; China remains largest log importer

Mongabay 10 Jul 2006

Scientists endorse plan to save rainforests through emissions trading

Mongabay.com 19 May 2006

China’s Olmypics may destroy New Guinea’s rainforests

Mongabay.com 1 May 2006

Evolution is twice as fast in the tropics

Mongabay.com 1 May 2006

Environmentalists awarded prestigious prize for grassroots work

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2006

Home Depot, Lowe’s selling illegal wood from Papua New Guinea-Report

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Mar 2006

Papua New Guinea’s forests under threat from corruption, illegal logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Mar 2006

Pictures of new species discovered in New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Feb 2006

Scientists discover dozens of new species in New Guinea

Conservation International 6 Feb 2006

UN agrees to “rainforest conservation for emissions” deal

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2005

Rainforests worth $1.1 trillion for carbon alone in Coalition nations

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2005

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