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Court rules for palm oil company in controversial deforestation case

Diana Parker 5 May 2013

Tribesmen launch ‘occupy’ protest at dam site in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 3 May 2013

Hibernating primates: scientists discover three lemur species sleep like bears

Jeremy Hance 2 May 2013

Endangered primates and cats may be hiding out in swamps and mangrove forests

Jeremy Hance 2 May 2013

Is it possible to reduce the impact of oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2013

Drill baby drill! The fate of African biodiversity and the monkey you’ve never heard of

Zach Fitzner 2 May 2013

13 year search for Taiwan’s top predator comes up empty-handed

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2013

Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2013

Conservation without supervision: Peruvian community group creates and patrols its own protected area

Jenny R. Isaacs 30 Apr 2013

APP answers questions on new forest conservation policy

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Environmentalists unhappy with new palm oil standard

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2013

Amazon: the world’s greatest rainforest or internet giant?

Jonathan Watts 25 Apr 2013

Bizarre, little-known carnivore sold as illegal pet in Indonesian markets (photo)

Jeremy Hance 24 Apr 2013

Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 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

Two new frog genera discovered in India’s Western Ghats, but restricted to threatened swamp-ecosystems

Aathira Perinchery 22 Apr 2013

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

Tanya Dimitrova 22 Apr 2013

Indonesian palm oil industry would support land swaps to protect forest, while expanding production

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 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

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2013

New insect discovered in Brazil, only third known in its bizarre family (photos)

Alexander Holmgren 15 Apr 2013

Visiting Aceh’s rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2013

Fighting deforestation—and corruption—in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2013

Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders acquitted

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

Sarawak to protect population of rarest orangutan sub-species

Mongabay.com 10 Apr 2013

Beautiful striped bat is the “find of a lifetime” (photos)

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

6 lessons for stopping deforestation on the frontier

Daniel Nepstad 9 Apr 2013

Featured video: stemming human-caused fires in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Apr 2013

Still hope for tropical biodiversity in human modified landscapes

Dr Liz Kimbrough 9 Apr 2013

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