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Nothing else left to log: are eco-certified timber companies stripping Russia of its last old growth forests?

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Aug 2014

Ecologists are underestimating the impacts of rainforest logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2014

Stuff of fairy tales: stepping into Europe’s last old-growth forest

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

A fine line: new program predicts when human impact becomes too much

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jun 2014

Protecting rainforests could sequester equivalent of a third of global emissions annually

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2014

Logging, fires take a hidden toll on Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2014

Borneo bests Amazon in terms of giant tree growth rates

Mongabay.com 11 May 2014

Reduced impact logging failing to cut emissions in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Feb 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Incentivizing keeping primary forests intact

Dr Liz Kimbrough 7 Feb 2014

How hunters have become key to saving Bulgaria’s capercaillie

Tanya Dimitrova 4 Feb 2014

The next best thing: how well do secondary forests preserve biodiversity?

Bobbie Edwards 23 Jan 2014

Tree growth accelerates with age

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2014

Zero net deforestation is the wrong target, warn experts

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2013

World’s biggest owl depends on large old trees

Natalie Millar 3 Sep 2013

Old-growth trees store half rainforest carbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2013

Deforestation ban working in Costa Rica

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2013

Decades-long fight leads to old-growth forest protection in Tasmania

Bridie Jabour 25 Jun 2013

Southern U.S. logging soars to meet foreign biofuel demand

Tanya Dimitrova 6 Jun 2013

Rodents have lowest diversity in primary forests in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Cambodia’s largest lowland rainforest spared from new land concessions

Jeremy Hance 6 Aug 2012

Saving ‘Avatar Grove’: the battle to preserve old-growth forests in British Columbia

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2012

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2012

Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Borneo’s rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2012

IKEA logging old-growth forest for low-price furniture in Russia

Jeremy Hance 30 May 2012

Alaskan fishermen tell government to focus on salmon, not logging

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2012

U.S. legislation threatens oldest, tallest trees in Tongass rainforest

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2012

NASA satellite image shows extent of logging in Pacific Northwest

Jeremy Hance 22 Feb 2012

Green groups: government moving too slowly on protecting Canada’s Great Bear rainforest

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2012

Big trees, like the old-growth forests they inhabit, are declining globally

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2012

Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jan 2012

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