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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

Selective logging hurts rainforest frogs

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Aug 2014

Ecologists are underestimating the impacts of rainforest logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2014

Despite moratorium, Indonesia now has world’s highest deforestation rate

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jun 2014

Protecting rainforests could sequester equivalent of a third of global emissions annually

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2014

Logging, fires take a hidden toll on Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2014

Borneo bests Amazon in terms of giant tree growth rates

Mongabay.com 11 May 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Incentivizing keeping primary forests intact

Dr Liz Kimbrough 7 Feb 2014

Canada’s biggest logger loses eco-certification

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2013

Zero net deforestation is the wrong target, warn experts

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Old-growth trees store half rainforest carbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2013

Decades-long fight leads to old-growth forest protection in Tasmania

Bridie Jabour 25 Jun 2013

Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

David Olson 20 May 2013

Global decline of big trees in old-growth forests worrying, argue scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2012

Rodents have lowest diversity in primary forests in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Cambodia’s largest lowland rainforest spared from new land concessions

Jeremy Hance 6 Aug 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2012

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2012

Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Borneo’s rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2012

Greenpeace calls for global REDD standards to reduce negative impacts of forest carbon projects

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2012

IKEA logging old-growth forest for low-price furniture in Russia

Jeremy Hance 30 May 2012

Deforestation increases in the Congo rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Mar 2012

Tink frog calls allow researchers to measure population

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2012

Alaskan fishermen tell government to focus on salmon, not logging

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2012

U.S. legislation threatens oldest, tallest trees in Tongass rainforest

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2012

Indonesia’s moratorium will not significantly reduce emissions, but has other benefits, finds analysis

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2012

NASA satellite image shows extent of logging in Pacific Northwest

Jeremy Hance 22 Feb 2012

Green groups: government moving too slowly on protecting Canada’s Great Bear rainforest

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2012

Big trees, like the old-growth forests they inhabit, are declining globally

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2012

Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jan 2012

Photos: 46 new species found in little-explored Amazonian nation

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2012

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