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Scientists: well-managed forest restoration benefits both biodiversity and people

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 16 Dec 2013

Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2013

Plantations used as cover for destruction of old-growth forests in Myanmar

Jeremy Hance 2 Dec 2013

Palm oil company Bumitama under fire for clearing rainforest, endangering orangutans

Diana Parker 2 Dec 2013

Asia’s most precious wood is soaked in blood

Michael Spencer 21 Nov 2013

The quicksilver demon: rogue gold-mining is the world’s largest source of mercury pollution

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 20 Nov 2013

HBSC financing deforestation for palm oil in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Nov 2013

Redeeming REDD: a conversation with Michael Brown

Nabiha Megateli-das 11 Nov 2013

Could camera trap videos galvanize the world to protect Yasuni from oil drilling?

Jeremy Hance 7 Nov 2013

Meeting the mammal that survived the dinosaurs

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2013

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Jeremy Hance 10 Oct 2013

Recovering forests ‘heal’ themselves by speeding up nitrogen fixation

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 8 Oct 2013

Over 100 scientists warn Ecuadorian Congress against oil development in Yasuni

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2013

Celebrities aim to raise $1.6 million to keep orangutan forests from the the chopping block in Borneo

Lewis Smith 2 Oct 2013

Bornean elephant meets palm oil: saving the world’s smallest pachyderm in a fractured landscape

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2013

Has Brazil turned against its progressive environmental policies?

Jeremy Hance 30 Sep 2013

‘Ecological Armageddon’: mammals vanish entirely from forest fragments after 25 years

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2013

Malaysia clearcutting forest reserves for timber and palm oil

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2013

Controversial oil palm company now accused of illegal logging in Cameroon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2013

Bornean orangutans travel along the ground

Natalie Millar 12 Sep 2013

Japanese firms buying illegal timber from Malaysia’s endangered rainforests

Diana Parker 10 Sep 2013

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinction rates

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2013

Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving the vanishing ecosystems of Paraguay

Dr Liz Kimbrough 12 Aug 2013

Endangered chimps and forest elephants found in rainforest to be logged for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2013

Featured video: Sumatra’s last elephants versus palm oil

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2013

Brazil’s military takes on illegal loggers to protect nearly-extinct tribe

Jeremy Hance 18 Jul 2013

80% of rainforests in Malaysian Borneo logged

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2013

Making movies to save Uganda’s great apes

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2013

Amazonian students help monitor threatened frog populations

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2013

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