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Converting palm oil companies from forest destroyers into forest protectors

Jeremy Hance, Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2011

Biopiracy crackdown results in $59M in fines for Brazilian companies, receives mixed reviews

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Dec 2010

Borneo province selected for Indonesia’s first pilot under REDD program

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2010

Will Indonesia’s big REDD rainforest deal work?

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2010

Agricultural lending jumps in Brazil, will Amazon deforestation follow?

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2010

Rainforest people sue logging company, Sarawak govt over planned deforestation

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2010

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2010

Jeremy Hance 20 Dec 2010

Biodiversity and slash-and-burn agriculture in Papua New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 20 Dec 2010

Lack of price premium for certified palm oil endangers sustainability initiative

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2010

Prominent indigenous leader gets death threats in Guyana

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2010

Lack of schools, trade drive exodus from remote parts of the Amazon

Soizic Le Courtois 17 Dec 2010

California approves cap-and-trade under global warming law

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2010

Teaching orangutans to be wild – orangutan rehabilitation

Laurel Neme 15 Dec 2010

New data shows REDD+ is succeeding

Doug Boucher 15 Dec 2010

Primatologists: the best hope for apes is the best hope for us

Kara Moses 15 Dec 2010

Sarawak to cut down 1 million ha of rainforest for palm oil

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2010

World leaders: take action now to save forests

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2010

Logging, palm oil giant hires U.S. ambassador as lobbyist

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2010

George Soros: save Indonesia’s peatlands, rainforests

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2010

Guyana: where’s the money pledged for saving rainforests?

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2010

Sulawesi groups recognized for efforts to save endangered wildlife, forests

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2010

Mountain gorilla population up by 100 individuals

Jeremy Hance 7 Dec 2010

Can RED Hot California Heat Up A Sedated Cancun?

John O. Niles 7 Dec 2010

Saving Sulawesi’s ‘pig-deer’, the babirusa

Jeremy Hance 6 Dec 2010

Amazon tribe establishes first indigenous forest carbon fund

Steve Zwick Of Ecosystem Marketplace 4 Dec 2010

2,700 sq km of Brazil’s most endangered rainforest destroyed in 8 years

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2010

Brazil’s largest national bank signs zero deforestation pact for Amazon soy

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2010

Rainforest protection should focus on boosting resilience to climate change

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2010

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2010

Study: REDD could save species from extinction, if well-funded

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2010

Logging concession could extinguish endangered Sumatran elephant population

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2010

Sarawak to double oil palm plantations by focusing on native customary forest

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2010

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