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Indonesia opens protected rainforests to mining and other developments

Forgotten Species: the marooned pygmy three-toed sloth

Amazon confusion: new research shows forest is resilient to drought, but is this the whole picture?

Environmental groups call on Delmas to cancel shipment of illegally logged wood from Madagascar

Thousands of tons of illegal timber in Madagascar readied for export

Secrets of the Amazon: giant anacondas and floating forests, an interview with Paul Rosolie

Why seed dispersers matter, an interview with Pierre-Michel Forget, chair of the FSD International Symposium

Photos: Madagascar’s wonderful and wild frogs, an interview with Sahonagasy

Healthy coral reefs produce clouds and precipitation

Guyana bans gold mining in the ‘Land of the Giants’

Vietnam implements project to save one of the world’s rarest mammals, the shy soala

Where two worlds collide: visiting Tabin Wildlife Reserve

Pregnancy gives new hope for rhino on-the-brink of extinction

Photos: highest diversity of cats in the world discovered in threatened forest of India

Humans push half of the world’s primates toward extinction, lemurs in particular trouble

New study: why plants produce different sized seeds

Under siege: oil and gas concessions cover 41 percent of the Peruvian Amazon

Video: Sunda clouded leopard caught on film for the first time

New spiny pocket mouse discovered in the mountainous rainforests of Venezuela

Asia’s biggest logging company accused of bribery, violence in Papua New Guinea

Commodity trade and urbanization, rather than rural poverty, drive deforestation

Birder captures first footage ever of long whiskered owlet, one of the world’s rarest birds

Rainforest expert agrees with IPCC: warns of ‘tipping point’ for Amazon

Could special bonds fund the green revolution and stabilize the climate?

Environmentalists and indigenous groups decry approval of massive dam in Amazon

Half of Indonesia’s species remain unknown

Little more than 10,000 hectares of rainforest remains on Java

Dispelling myths about the US Lacey Act

Indonesia plans to sell endangered tigers as pets to the wealthy

Forest-bulldozing ranchers win ‘Greenwashing Award’ for claiming they are creating a ‘nature reserve’

Photos: park in Ecuador likely contains world’s highest biodiversity, but threatened by oil

The Caribbean’s wonderfully weird (and threatened) mammals, an interview with Jose Nunez-Mino

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