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Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas to help finance cutting of rainforests for palm oil, say NGOs

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2009

DR Congo, Indonesia, PNG, Tanzania, Vietnam win REDD funding for forest conservation

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2009

Papua New Guinea creates first nature reserve

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2009

24% of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest destroyed or degraded by logging in 30 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2009

New fire record for Borneo, Sumatra shows dramatic increase in rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2009

Drought and deforestation in southeast Asia linked to climate change

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2008

California joins effort to fight global warming by saving rainforests

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Nov 2008

Oil palm expansion in Indonesian Borneo increased 400-fold from 1991-2007

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2008

Malaysian oil palm firms eye Papua for expansion

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2008

“Turtle carbon” could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2008

Loggers, palm oil firms eye remote rainforests of Papua for development

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2008

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests disappearing faster than thought

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2008

Al Gore’s investment firm bets that rainforest conservation will be profitable

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2008

Papua signs REDD carbon deal to generate income from rainforest protection

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2008

Papua New Guinea to ban log exports by 2010

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2008

New rule grants rainforest to mining firms in Indonesia for $80/acre

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Mar 2008

How activists and scientists saved a rainforest island from destruction for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 12 Feb 2008

70% of rainforest island to be cleared for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2007

Carbon credits for forest conservation concept faces challenges

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2007

Planned logging of Woodlark Island for biofuels opposed by islanders and scientists

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2007

Lowland rainforest less diverse than previously thought

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2007

China’s demand for hardwood drives illegal logging says Greenpeace

Reuters 17 Apr 2007

Indonesia seeks to increase deforestation rate, already world’s highest

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2007

Just how bad is the biodiversity extinction crisis?

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2007

China invests in $5.5B biofuels project in Borneo, New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jan 2007

New species of orchids discovered in Papua New Guinea

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2006

Rainforest conservation could yield more cash than logging in PNG

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2006

Japan depletes Borneo’s rainforests; China remains largest log importer

Mongabay 10 Jul 2006

Scientists endorse plan to save rainforests through emissions trading

Mongabay.com 19 May 2006

China’s Olmypics may destroy New Guinea’s rainforests

Mongabay.com 1 May 2006

Environmentalists awarded prestigious prize for grassroots work

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2006

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