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Rainforest conservation: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2009

Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2009

Saving Africa’s ‘unicorn’, the okapi

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

Cameroon rainforest given 30 days to be conserved or sold off for logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2009

Range extended for world’s most mysterious gorilla

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2009

New rainforest reserve in Congo benefits bonobos and locals

Jeremy Hance 25 May 2009

Congo biochar initiative will reduce poverty, protect forests, slow climate change

Mongabay.com 19 May 2009

Republic of Congo to turn over 25 M acres of land to South African farmers

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2009

Gabonese environmental activist receives prize for standing up to government, Chinese company

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2009

Vanishing forest elephants are the Congo’s greatest cultivators

Jeremy Hance 9 Apr 2009

Revolutionary new theory overturns modern meteorology with claim that forests move rain

Jeremy Hance 1 Apr 2009

More than 300 gorillas butchered each year in the Republic of Congo

Rose Picardal Of Endangered Species International 27 Mar 2009

Norway emerges as champion of rainforest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Mar 2009

Elephants populations in the Congo drop 80 percent in fifty years

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2009

Cameroon may liquidate rainforest reserve if conservationists don’t step forward

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2009

Rainforests absorb 20% of emissions annually

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2009

Mountain gorilla population in DR Congo increases 12.5%

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2009

Congo cancels logging contracts covering 13M hectares

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2009

Missing gorilla rangers return safely in Congo, one dies of cholera in camp

Jeremy Hance 6 Nov 2008

39 rangers missing in Virunga Park after headquarters overtaken by rebels

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2008

Forest elephants learn to avoid roads, behavior may lead to population decline

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2008

Gorilla refuge falls into rebel hands in Congo; Park HQ seized

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2008

DR Congo to cancel two-thirds of logging contracts due to corruption

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2008

Commercial bushmeat trade is devastating wildlife

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Rare okapi photographed for the first time in Congo park

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2008

Malaysia targets Africa and the Amazon for oil palm expansion

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2008

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2008

1.2 million ha of Congo rainforest certified for sustainable forestry

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

Massive gorilla population discovered in the Congo

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2008

Logging company Danzer accused of tax fraud in the Congo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2008

14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2008

Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2008

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