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Forest-bulldozing ranchers win ‘Greenwashing Award’ for claiming they are creating a ‘nature reserve’

Jeremy Hance 20 Jan 2010

Photos: park in Ecuador likely contains world’s highest biodiversity, but threatened by oil

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2010

The Caribbean’s wonderfully weird (and threatened) mammals, an interview with Jose Nunez-Mino

Jeremy Hance 18 Jan 2010

Photos: new bird discovered in well-known rainforest in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2010

Conservation organization purchases vital wildlife corridor for elephants in India

Jeremy Hance 11 Jan 2010

Uncontacted natives confirmed in Brazil

Jeremy Hance 10 Jan 2010

Housing developments choking wildlife around America’s national parks

Jeremy Hance 5 Jan 2010

Bridge development in Kalimantan threatens rainforest, mangroves, and coral reef

Jeremy Hance 3 Jan 2010

Rainforest conservation: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2009

Ecuador to be paid to leave oil in the ground

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2009

Brazil establishes 20,000 sq mi of new indigenous reserves in the Amazon

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2009

The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation

Jeremy Hance 22 Dec 2009

Brazil: king of conservation, deforestation for the 2000s

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2009

Kenya REDD project becomes first in Africa to win gold-level validation

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2009

Uninhabited tropical island paradise seeks REDD funding to save it from loggers

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2009

Malaysia to allow logging in indigenous ‘peace park’ to proceed

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2009

Brazil allocates first funds under plan to save the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2009

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Extinctions on the rise in the Galapagos: fishing and global warming devastating islands’ species

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2009

Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world’s smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2009

Blogging wildlife rangers drive microconservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2009

World’s smallest orchid discovered in Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2009

Rainforest tribe declares ‘peace park’ to defend lands from logging in Sarawak

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

Authorities in Madagascar conduct raids to uncover illegal rosewood

Wildmadagascar.org 24 Nov 2009

India scraps plan to build physics lab in tiger reserve

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2009

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2009

New rating systems seeks to promote sustainable landscapes from shopping malls to city parks

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2009

Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2009

Costa Rica proposes to downgrade Las Baulas National Park, threatening leatherback sea turtles

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2009

World’s first video of the elusive and endangered bay cat

Jeremy Hance 5 Nov 2009

Photos: Palm oil threatens Borneo’s rarest cats

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2009

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