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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

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

Jeremy Hance 30 May 2012

Deforestation increases in the Congo rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Mar 2012

Tink frog calls allow researchers to measure population

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2012

Alaskan fishermen tell government to focus on salmon, not logging

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2012

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

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2012

NASA satellite image shows extent of logging in Pacific Northwest

Jeremy Hance 22 Feb 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2012

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2012

Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jan 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2012

Locals key to saving primate-rich wetlands in Cote D’Ivoire

Jeremy Hance 12 Dec 2011

Madagascar tree diversity among the highest worldwide

Jeremy Hance 12 Dec 2011

Featured video: world’s only video of extinct 2-foot-long imperial woodpecker

Jeremy Hance 16 Nov 2011

Old trees necessary for nesting animals

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2011

Primary forest best for birds in Papua New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2011

Old-growth forests are irreplaceable for sustaining biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2011

Photos: Cambodians rally as ‘Avatars’ to save one of the region’s last great rainforests

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2011

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, Rhett Ayers Butler 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

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