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Peat forest cleared for pulp and paper in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New tool seeks end to Indonesian paper giants’ secret links

Loren Bell 26 Feb 2016

The inside story of how Great Bear Rainforest went from a ‘War In The Woods’ to an unprecedented environmental and human rights agreement

Mike Gaworecki 22 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

Jonathan Vit 9 Feb 2016

Indonesia losing billions from illegal logging

Jonathan Vit 9 Nov 2015

Alarm bells over Indonesia’s plan to reduce green timber certification

Sapariah Saturi 7 Oct 2015

Road creeps into Peru’s Sierra del Divisor as it awaits national park designation

John Cannon 2 Oct 2015

From conflict to partnership, a Kalimantan community and logging company manage the forest together

Indra Nugraha 15 Sep 2015

Scientists discover new primate in the embattled heart of the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2015

Photos: expedition to Amazon’s white sands may have found new primate

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2015

Discovery of ‘Lost City’ spurs conservation pledge

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2015

Photo essay: filming in the remote Amazon

Tristan Thompson 9 Mar 2015

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2014

Beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products from 8 countries responsible for 1/3 of forest destruction

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Walking the walk: zoo kicks off campaign for orangutans and sustainable palm oil

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2014

Daring activists use high-tech to track illegal logging trucks in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2014

‘River wolves’ recover in Peruvian park, but still remain threatened inside and out (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2014

Forest fragmentation’s carbon bomb: 736 million tonnes C02 annually

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Have scientists discovered a new primate in the Philippines?

Jeremy Hance 21 Aug 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? DNA fingerprinting trees to stem illegal logging

Dr Liz Kimbrough 21 Aug 2014

Forgotten species: the exotic squirrel with a super tail

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2014

PhD students ‘thrilled’ to rediscover mammal missing for 124 years

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

Greenpeace accuses controversial palm oil company and Cameroon government of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2014

Chinese luxury furniture linked to murder, near extinction

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2014

Almost 90 percent of Republic of the Congo’s lowland forests open to logging

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2014

Papua New Guinea pledges to cancel massive land grabs by timber companies

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2014

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