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Palm oil giant buys PNG firm noted for environmental practices

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2015

Weak sustainability policy presents financial risk for Malaysian palm oil giant, says report

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Feb 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

2014: the year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2014

Embattled palm oil giant announces sustainability policy, but fails to win over critics

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2014

Ranking the world’s best – and worst – palm oil companies in terms of sustainability

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2014

Palm oil interest surges in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Nov 2014

‘Militarized occupation’: local communities pay the price for palm oil

John Cannon 11 Nov 2014

Beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products from 8 countries responsible for 1/3 of forest destruction

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

FSC meeting weighs old-growth forest protection, smallholder participation

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Scientists ask PNG to support conservation research

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2014

PhD students ‘thrilled’ to rediscover mammal missing for 124 years

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

Malaysian palm oil giant loses PNG case, plantations declared illegal

Mongabay.com 24 May 2014

Papua New Guinea pledges to cancel massive land grabs by timber companies

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2014

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Illegal logging makes up 70 percent of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2014

Malaysian palm oil giant tied to social conflict, deforestation, says report

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2014

New Guinea animals losing vital tree cavities to logging, hunting practices

Bobbie Edwards 17 Dec 2013

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2013

Scientists outline how to save nearly 70 percent of the world’s plant species

Jeremy Hance 5 Sep 2013

Palm oil licenses provide cover for logging in New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2013

Saving the Tenkile: an expedition to protect one of the most endangered animals you’ve never heard of

Jordanna Dulaney 5 Jun 2013

Scientists describe over 100 new beetles from New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2013

Could the Tasmanian tiger be hiding out in New Guinea?

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2013

Pacific islanders are the ‘victims of industrial countries unable to control their carbon dioxide emissions’

Claudine Wéry 15 May 2013

Scientists: bizarre mammal could still roam Australia

Jeremy Hance 3 Jan 2013

The year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2012

New Guinea singing dog photographed in the wild for the first time

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2012

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2012

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