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Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2008

Loggers, palm oil firms eye remote rainforests of Papua for development

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2008

Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2008

Orangutans persist in islands amid a sea of oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Biofuels, food demand may doom tropical forests

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2008

Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 9 Jul 2008

Orangutan populations drop due to logging, expansion for palm oil

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2008

Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 30 Jun 2008

Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jun 2008

Malaysian government says no more forest clearing for oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2008

Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2008

Hunting, deforestation wipe out 6 of 7 hornbill species in Borneo park

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

Biofuels expansion in Africa may impact rainforests, wetlands

Mongabay.com 28 May 2008

Next gen biofuels could decimate rainforests

Mongabay.com 27 May 2008

Will consumers pay 10% premium for sustainable palm oil?

Mongabay.com 21 May 2008

Energy firm to mine oil sands in the Republic of Congo

Mongabay.com 21 May 2008

Half of oil palm expansion in Malaysia, Indonesia occurs at expense of forests

Mongabay.com 20 May 2008

Tropical deforestation is ‘one of the worst crises since we came out of our caves’

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2008

Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

China to push for overseas acquisition of farmland to improve food security

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

Sustainability conference reveals a rift in the Malaysian Palm Oil Council

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2008

High palm oil prices kill the biodiesel market for Asia

Mongabay.com 1 May 2008

Unilever calls for ban on rainforest destruction for palm oil

Mongabay.com 1 May 2008

Unilever admits it can’t trace origin of palm oil used in its products

Mongabay.com 21 Apr 2008

Borneo’s pygmy elephants are an alien species

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2008

Malaysian palm oil industry puts sustainability in the spotlight

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2008

Palm oil boycott an unrealistic approach to conserving biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Apr 2008

Saving the world’s most recently discovered cat species in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Apr 2008

Global warming solutions are harming indigenous people, says U.N.

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2008

Asia Pulp & Paper destroying rare Sumatra forest

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2008

Half the Amazon rainforest will be lost within 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Feb 2008

Malaysia announces $103B development plan for Borneo island

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2008

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