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

Bridie Jabour 25 Jun 2013

Over 30 tons of explosives to be detonated in Manu National Park buffer zone

David Hill 24 Jun 2013

Building a new generation of local conservationists: how improving education in Uganda may save one of the world’s great forests

Jeremy Hance 20 Jun 2013

Tigers, orangutans, rhinos: Sumatra’s big mammals on the edge of extinction

John Vidal 12 Jun 2013

Bird extravaganza: scientists discover 15 new species of birds in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2013

11,000 barrels of oil spill into the Coca River in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2013

Saving one of Africa’s most stunning parks through biomass briquettes and fuel-efficient stoves

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2013

Saving the Tenkile: an expedition to protect one of the most endangered animals you’ve never heard of

Jordanna Dulaney 5 Jun 2013

Scientists describe over 100 new beetles from New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2013

Saving Gorongosa: E.O. Wilson on protecting a biodiversity hotspot in Mozambique

Bridget Conneely 30 May 2013

Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2013

Scientists capture one of the world’s rarest big cats on film (photos)

Jeremy Hance 21 May 2013

Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2013

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2013

Central America’s largest forest under siege by colonists

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2013

What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Featured video: Earth Day message from indigenous tribes in the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2013

Malaysia may be home to more Asian tapirs than previously thought (photos)

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2013

A new tool against illegal logging: tree DNA technology goes mainstream

Tanya Dimitrova 22 Apr 2013

Judge halts military-backed dam assessment in Brazil’s Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2013

Featured video: local communities successfully conserve forests in Ethiopia

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2013

Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders acquitted

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

Featured video: stemming human-caused fires in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Apr 2013

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

David Hill 4 Apr 2013

New giant tarantula that’s taken media by storm likely Critically Endangered (photos)

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

An insidious threat to tropical forests: over-hunting endangers tree species in Asia and Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

Infamous elephant poacher turns cannibal in the Congo

Pete Jones 3 Apr 2013

U.S. book industry using 24 percent recycled paper on average

Jeremy Hance 1 Apr 2013

After decades of turning a blind eye, Peru declares state of emergency due to oil contamination in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

Indigenous protester killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 25 Mar 2013

Ant communities more segregated in palm oil plantations than rainforest

Thomas Handley 21 Mar 2013

Video uncovers top level corruption in Sarawak over indigenous forests

Jeremy Hance 20 Mar 2013

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