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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

Amazon stores 10 billion tons of carbon in ‘dead wood’

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2009

Emissions from Amazon deforestation to rise as loggers move deeper into the rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2009

Are we on the brink of saving rainforests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2009

Temperate forests store more carbon than tropical forests, finds study

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2009

Climate pact must halt deforestation and industrial logging of old-growth forests, exclude carbon credits for forest conservation, say activists

Mongabay.com 9 Jun 2009

24% of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest destroyed or degraded by logging in 30 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2009

Rainforests absorb 20% of emissions annually

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2009

Secondary forest should become new conservation initiative

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2009

Symposium tackles big question: how many species will survive our generation

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2009

What is the greatest threat to rainforests: habitat destruction or climate change?

Jeremy Hance 13 Jan 2009

Selective logging occurs in 28 percent of world’s rainforests

Jeremy Hance 13 Jan 2009

Rainforest conversion to oil palm causes 83% of wildlife to disappear

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Old growth forests are giant carbon sinks, helping offset emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2008

In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary forest, plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2007

Forest disturbance reduces biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jul 2007

Biodiversity extinction crisis looms says renowned biologist

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Mar 2007

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