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Ebay bidders to decide new shrimp’s name

DR Congo, Indonesia, PNG, Tanzania, Vietnam win REDD funding for forest conservation

Fastest evolving bird family produces new species

Seven new species of deep sea coral discovered

Papua New Guinea creates first nature reserve

Time to give up on Tasmanian tiger, says DNA expert

24% of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest destroyed or degraded by logging in 30 years

New fire record for Borneo, Sumatra shows dramatic increase in rainforest destruction

Little-known flatback sea turtle receives extra attention at symposium in Australia

Japanese paper firms contribute to destruction of old-growth forests in Tasmania

Indonesian ecolabeling initiative providing cover for rainforest destruction

Ocean acidification is killing the Great Barrier Reef

Drought and deforestation in southeast Asia linked to climate change

REDD may harm forest people, alleges report

Guide to reducing emissions through forest conservation released

Carbon market could pay poor farmers to adopt sustainable cultivation techniques

A cure for the Tasmanian devil’s strange and fatal cancer?

Studying world’s rarest penguin leads to the discovery of a new species

California joins effort to fight global warming by saving rainforests

Conflict in PNG between govt and landowners over REDD carbon trading

New gecko species discovered

Two new species of gecko discovered in Australia

Oil palm expansion in Indonesian Borneo increased 400-fold from 1991-2007

U.S. pledges $40M toward coral reef conservation.

Kangaroos at risk from climate change

Extinct since 1963, wild eastern quolls discovered in Australia

Malaysian oil palm firms eye Papua for expansion

100 new species of sharks and rays discovered in Australia

Unknown but critically endangered iguana species discovered in Fiji

Thought-to-be-extinct frog rediscovered in Australia

Photo: commonly-kept gecko was thought to be extinct in the wild

For Australian beetles bigger is better; while American beetles don’t care about size

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