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Heart of Borneo conservation initiative at risk from Indonesian development plan

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2009

Malaysian government says forest reserve ‘plundered’ for oil palm development

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2009

Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2009

Indonesia lifts ban on logging of natural forests for pulp and paper

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2009

Secondary forest should become new conservation initiative

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2009

Rainforest conservation more important than developing electric cars

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2009

Shade-grown coffee preserves native tree diversity

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2008

Salvage logging offers hope for forests, communities devastated by industrial logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Dec 2008

Degraded grasslands better option for palm oil production relative to rainforests, finds study

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2008

Fall in palm oil price may lead to industry consolidation

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2008

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

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2008

Cellulosic biofuels endanger old-growth forests in the southern U.S.

Jeremy Hance 16 Oct 2008

Snares set by palm oil workers taking a toll on pygmy elephants of Borneo

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2008

Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2008

Palm oil firm becomes first to win eco-certification

Mongabay.com 28 Sep 2008

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Malaysian oil palm firms eye Papua for expansion

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Monoculture tree plantations are “green deserts” not forests, say activists

Jeremy Hance 19 Sep 2008

A solution to worldwide fishery collapse?

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2008

Teak wood may be improved by greater genetic diversity

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Malaysian palm oil industry accused of child slavery by the Indonesian government

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Rainforest conversion to oil palm causes 83% of wildlife to disappear

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Old growth forests are giant carbon sinks, helping offset emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2008

Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2008

Reforestation a growing, but complicated, initiative

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2008

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

Mongabay.com 20 May 2008

Malaysia announces $103B development plan for Borneo island

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2008

10% of China’s forests destroyed in recent storms

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2008

Peru to replant 10 million hectares of forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2008

Will carbon credits-for-forests scheme be undermined by carbon negative bioenergy?

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2007

Forest carbon may not fully offset fossil carbon, says expert

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2007

In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary forest, plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2007

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