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Surprising reasons to be optimistic about saving forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Climate change to boost farmland, diminish harvests, says new study

John Cannon 29 Sep 2014

Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

Setting the stage: theater troupe revives tradition to promote conservation in DRC

Anna Ikarashi 22 Jul 2014

Will the last ape found be the first to go? Bonobos’ biggest refuge under threat (Part I)

Fidelis Zvomuya 16 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Playing games to understand what drives deforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2014

Discarded cell phones to help fight rainforest poachers, loggers in real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jun 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2014

DRC seeks $1B to save its rainforest

Mongabay.com 22 May 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2014

Congo rainforest losing its greenness, finds NASA

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Apr 2014

Okapi-killing warlord shot dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2014

Nearly 90 percent of logging in the DRC is illegal

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2014

Europe not doing enough to stop illegal logging imports says Greenpeace

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2014

Rainforest news review for 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2013

Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2013

Controversial palm oil project approved in Cameroon rainforest

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2013

Honey badgers and more: camera traps reveal wealth of small carnivores in Gabon (photos)

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2013

A year after devastating attack, security returns to the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (photos)

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2013

NGO hits out at study for downplaying logging threat in Congo rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2013

Hunting, logging could threaten long-term health of Congo forests by wiping out key animals

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2013

Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

Controversial palm oil project halted in Cameroon

Mongabay.com 24 May 2013

Forest certification body revokes Swiss logging company’s certificate over alleged Congo abuses

Mongabay.com 21 May 2013

Gabon steps in to help protect elephants from ivory poaching at Central African Republic site

Mongabay.com 18 May 2013

Conservation policies that boost farm yields may ultimately undermine forest protection, argues study

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 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

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