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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 A. 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 A. Butler 11 Sep 2008

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

Rhett A. Butler 12 Nov 2007

Forest disturbance reduces biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 2 Jul 2007

Biodiversity extinction crisis looms says renowned biologist

Rhett A. Butler 12 Mar 2007

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