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Guide to reducing emissions through forest conservation released

Carbon market could pay poor farmers to adopt sustainable cultivation techniques

Cameroon moves to protect rarest gorilla

Brazil moves to protect and restore endangered Atlantic rainforest

Malaysia’s indigenous people to get land rights for first time

Brazil to use body-heat sensing technology to find uncontacted Amazon tribes

Last uncontacted tribe in Paraguay rapidly losing homeland

California joins effort to fight global warming by saving rainforests

Photos of living gremlin discovered in Indonesia

Illegal drug use destroys rainforests

New rules establish market for saving rainforests through carbon trading

Coordinated effort needed to cut deforestation via carbon markets

Conflict in PNG between govt and landowners over REDD carbon trading

Brazil OKs $4 billion dam in the Amazon rainforest

Brazilian rancher claims he owns land American nun was killed defending in the Amazon

Greenpeace activists block palm oil shipment from departing Indonesia for Europe

New species of flying lemurs discovered

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

Palm oil companies propose satellite monitoring of their plantations to ensure sustainability

Brazil triples endangered species list

Forest certification system needs reform to ensure sustainability – report

Ugandan president continues to undermine national forest reserves

Rainforest agriculture preserves bird biodiversity in India

Rainforest fungus generates biodiesel, may drive energy of the future

Endangered wildlife in Malaysia falls victim to rampant poaching due to ‘outdated’ laws

Forests for Climate initiative launches in Indonesia

Brazil charges 81 with illegal Amazon deforestation

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

39 rangers missing in Virunga Park after headquarters overtaken by rebels

Researchers catch, then release, world’s rarest big cat in Russia

Air travel may be powered by biofuels in 3-5 years

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

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