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Cambodia’s largest lowland rainforest spared from new land concessions

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

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Borneo’s rainforests

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

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

Deforestation increases in the Congo rainforest

Tink frog calls allow researchers to measure population

Alaskan fishermen tell government to focus on salmon, not logging

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

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

NASA satellite image shows extent of logging in Pacific Northwest

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

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

Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists

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

Locals clash with ‘sustainable’ FSC logging company in the Congo

Scientists to document impact of converting rainforest into oil palm plantations

With REDD, could financial markets become species’ extinction risk?

Indonesia’s forest protection plan at risk, says report

Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad

Scientists call upon Indonesia to recognize value of secondary forests

RSPO to recognize secondary forests as conservation priority

Corporations, conservation, and the green movement

Loss of old growth forest continues

The effect of forest regeneration strategies on beetles

Indonesia’s forest conservation plan may not sufficiently reduce emissions

Audit finds palm oil company destroyed peatlands, but not primary forest

Rainforest destruction progresses in waves

Reforestation of rainforests sequesters more carbon than plantations

Illegal logging declining worldwide, but still ‘major problem’

Rainforest scientists urge UN to correct “serious loophole” by changing its definition of ‘forest’

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