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World’s biggest owl depends on large old trees

Old-growth trees store half rainforest carbon

Deforestation ban working in Costa Rica

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

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

Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

Global decline of big trees in old-growth forests worrying, argue scientists

Rodents have lowest diversity in primary forests in the Congo

Cambodia’s largest lowland rainforest spared from new land concessions

Saving ‘Avatar Grove’: the battle to preserve old-growth forests in British Columbia

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Borneo’s rainforests

Greenpeace calls for global REDD standards to reduce negative impacts of forest carbon projects

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

Deforestation increases in the Congo rainforest

Tink frog calls allow researchers to measure population

Alaskan fishermen tell government to focus on salmon, not logging

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

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

NASA satellite image shows extent of logging in Pacific Northwest

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

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

Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists

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

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

Madagascar tree diversity among the highest worldwide

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

Old trees necessary for nesting animals

Primary forest best for birds in Papua New Guinea

Old-growth forests are irreplaceable for sustaining biodiversity

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

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

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