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Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2008

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2008

Logging company Danzer accused of tax fraud in the Congo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2008

Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Orangutans persist in islands amid a sea of oil palm plantations

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Biofuels, food demand may doom tropical forests

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2008

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2008

Scientists call for mining ban, new protected areas in Suriname

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2008

Rainforests face array of emerging threats

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2008

Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2008

Next gen biofuels could decimate rainforests

Mongabay.com 27 May 2008

Cocaine use is destroying the Amazon rainforest, says new campaign

Mongabay.com 26 May 2008

Half of oil palm expansion in Malaysia, Indonesia occurs at expense of forests

Mongabay.com 20 May 2008

Brazil will forge its own path for developing the Amazon

Mongabay.com 15 May 2008

Tropical deforestation is ‘one of the worst crises since we came out of our caves’

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2008

After acquittal, fear of open season on activists in the Amazon rainforest

Michael Astor 14 May 2008

Convicted nun-killer freed in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 May 2008

Brazil’s environmental minister resigns after losing Amazon fight

Mongabay.com 14 May 2008

Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

China to push for overseas acquisition of farmland to improve food security

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

46% of Brazil’s energy comes from renewable sources

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

Sustainability conference reveals a rift in the Malaysian Palm Oil Council

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2008

High palm oil prices kill the biodiesel market for Asia

Mongabay.com 1 May 2008

Unilever calls for ban on rainforest destruction for palm oil

Mongabay.com 1 May 2008

Judge suspends Amazon dam project due to legal questions

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2008

Could felling and burying trees help fight global warming?

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2008

China’s wood industry fueled by illegal log imports from rainforest countries

Mongabay.com 29 Feb 2008

Steel production drives deforestation in Brazil’s Pantanal

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2008

Staples dumps Asia Pulp & Paper over its destruction of virgin rainforests

Rhett A. Butler 7 Feb 2008

How much would it cost to end Amazon deforestation?

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2008

7000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed in late 2007 says Greenpeace

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2008

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