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A path to becoming a conservation scientist

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 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

Nothing else left to log: are eco-certified timber companies stripping Russia of its last old growth forests?

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Aug 2014

Ecologists are underestimating the impacts of rainforest logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2014

Stuff of fairy tales: stepping into Europe’s last old-growth forest

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

A fine line: new program predicts when human impact becomes too much

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 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

Reduced impact logging failing to cut emissions in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Feb 2014

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

Dr Liz Kimbrough 7 Feb 2014

How hunters have become key to saving Bulgaria’s capercaillie

Tanya Dimitrova 4 Feb 2014

The next best thing: how well do secondary forests preserve biodiversity?

Bobbie Edwards 23 Jan 2014

Tree growth accelerates with age

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 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

3.5 million ha of Indonesian and Malaysian forest converted for palm oil in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2013

World’s biggest owl depends on large old trees

Natalie Millar 3 Sep 2013

Old-growth trees store half rainforest carbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2013

Deforestation ban working in Costa Rica

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2013

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

Bridie Jabour 25 Jun 2013

Southern U.S. logging soars to meet foreign biofuel demand

Tanya Dimitrova 6 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

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