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

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2011

Scientists to document impact of converting rainforest into oil palm plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jan 2011

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

Mongabay.com 6 Jan 2011

Indonesia’s forest protection plan at risk, says report

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2010

Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad

Jeremy Hance 24 Nov 2010

Scientists call upon Indonesia to recognize value of secondary forests

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2010

RSPO to recognize secondary forests as conservation priority

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2010

Corporations, conservation, and the green movement

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2010

Loss of old growth forest continues

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2010

The effect of forest regeneration strategies on beetles

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2010

Indonesia’s forest conservation plan may not sufficiently reduce emissions

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2010

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

Jeremy Hance 10 Aug 2010

Rainforest destruction progresses in waves

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2010

Reforestation of rainforests sequesters more carbon than plantations

Jeremy Hance 3 Aug 2010

Illegal logging declining worldwide, but still ‘major problem’

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2010

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

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2010

A total ban on primary forest logging needed to save the world, an interview with activist Glen Barry

Jeremy Hance 2 Jun 2010

Timber certification is not enough to save rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jun 2010

New protected areas in Brazil contribute to major drop in Amazon deforestation rate

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2010

Taking back the rainforest: Indians in Colombia govern 100,000 square miles of territory

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2010

Paper company loses green certification after rainforest destruction in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 18 Apr 2010

Global deforestation slows

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Mar 2010

Oil palm plantations support fewer ant species than rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2010

Rich logging countries open logging loophole in plan to reduce deforestation

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2009

Destruction of old-growth forests looms over climate talks

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2009

In absence of measures to address consumption, REDD may fail to protect forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2009

REDD may increase the cost of conservation of non-forest ecosystems

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Nov 2009

Important safeguards to protect rainforests lacking in REDD negotiating text

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2009

Without reinstatement of key provision, REDD could subsidize large-scale forest destruction

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2009

Logged forests support biodiversity after 15 years of rehabilitation, but not if turned into plantations

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2009

Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2009

Weak forest definition may undermine REDD efforts

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Aug 2009

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