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Tens of thousands starving to death in East Africa

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2011

Oil company hires indigenous people to clean up its Amazon spill with rags and buckets

Jeremy Hance 13 Jul 2011

Viable population of snow leopards still roam Afghanistan (pictures)

Jeremy Hance 13 Jul 2011

South Sudan’s choice: resource curse or wild wonder?

Jeremy Hance 11 Jul 2011

Newest country boasts one of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles, but protection needed

Jeremy Hance 10 Jul 2011

Richard Leakey: ‘selfish’ critics choose wrong fight in Serengeti road

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2011

Apakah Indonesia kehilangan asetnya yang paling berharga?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jun 2011

How do tourists view the Serengeti?

Jeremy Hance 27 Jun 2011

How do we save Africa’s forests?

Karimeh Moukaddem 19 Jun 2011

Poverty doesn’t drive deforestation, argues new survey

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2011
Google Earth image showing deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon.

Could palm oil help save the Amazon? (2011)

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2011

Could palm oil help save the Amazon?

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2011

Environment versus economy: local communities find economic benefits from living next to conservation areas

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2011

Food security in developing world threatened by climate change

Karimeh Moukaddem 6 Jun 2011

Dengan Moratorium Indonesia menuju pertumbuhan ekonomi rendah karbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 May 2011

Nobel laureates: ‘we are transgressing planetary boundaries that have kept civilization safe for the past 10,000 years’

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2011

Is Indonesia losing its most valuable assets?

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 May 2011

Program that cuts illegal logging by providing high quality health care in Borneo wins major conservation award

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 May 2011

Cambodia’s wildlife pioneer: saving species and places in Southeast Asia’s last forest

Laurel Neme 11 May 2011

Distressed Place and Faded Grace in North Sulawesi

A Travel Essay 10 May 2011

Chainsaw Milling: Domestic Unregulated Deforestation Agents or Local Entrepreneurs?

Gabriel Thoumi 10 May 2011

Conservation organizations ask Tanzania to reconsider UNESCO status for Eastern Arc Mountains

Jeremy Hance 2 May 2011

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: ‘quest for profit subverts our present and our future’

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2011

New eco-tour to help save bizarre antelope in ‘forgotten’ region

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2011

Rising food prices threaten to push over 60 million Asians back into poverty

Jeremy Hance 27 Apr 2011

Rise in wildlife tourism in India comes with challenges

Jeremy Hance 27 Apr 2011

Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2011

Scientists urge Papua New Guinea to declare moratorium on massive forest clearing

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2011

From the Serengeti to Lake Natron: is the Tanzanian government aiming to destroy its wildlife and lands?

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2011

New organization seeks to make biofuels sustainable, but is it possible?

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2011

5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea forests handed to foreign corporations

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2011

New road project to run through Laos’ last tiger habitat

Jeremy Hance 15 Mar 2011

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