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Wax palm can be sustainably harvested

Extremely rare plant region left unprotected in the Yucatan Peninsula

Bird diversity at risk if ‘agroforests’ replaced with farmland

Teetering on the edge: the world’s 100 most endangered species (photos)

Rainforest fungi, plants fuel rainfall

One extinction leads to another…and another

Forget-me-not: two new flowers discovered in New Zealand gravely endangered

Rodent robbers fill role of mega mammals, help spread tropical trees

3-D laser mapping shows elephants have big impact on trees

Half of tropical forest parks losing biodiversity

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

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Struggling to conserve seed biodiversity: the gaps and wisdom in current research

Climate change to favor trees over grasses in Africa

96 percent of the world’s species remain unevaluated by the Red List

Pitcher plants use rain to trap insects

Climate change creating “novel ecosystem” in Arctic

Scientists to Rio+20: save biodiversity to save ourselves

Why bird droppings matter to manta rays: discovering unknown ecological connections

Blue tarantula, walking cactus, and a worm from Hell: the top 10 new species of 2011

Can loggers be conservationists?

Biodiversity loss cripples plant growth

New reptile discovered in world’s strangest archipelago

Blood rosewood: Thailand and Cambodia team up to tackle illegal logging crisis and save lives

Featured video: Honoring Wangari Maathai, who would have been 72 yesterday

Asia Pulp & Paper loses another customer: Danone

UN: wild teak forests declining

Belize enacts moratorium on rosewood

Chimp conservation requires protecting fragmented river forests in Uganda

Amazon plant yields miracle cure for dental pain

Investigation links APP to illegal logging of protected trees

Majority of Andes’ biodiversity hotspots remain unprotected

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