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Indonesia: Kalimantan’s Lowland Peat Forests Explained

Not just the polar bear: ten American species that are feeling the heat from global warming

New report: boreal forests contain more carbon than tropical forest per hectare

Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

Peat emissions data by country

EU is 2nd largest source of peat emissions after Indonesia, finds global peat survey

REDD in Colombia: using forests to finance conservation and communities in Colombia’s Choco, a former war zone

Camping in the Okavango Delta in Botswana

Despite legal protection, Indian turtles are poached for restaurant trade

Florida announces python hunt following snake invasion

First comprehensive study of insect endangerment: ten percent of dragonflies threatened

Environmental campaign blocks palm oil project in Cote d’ Ivoire wetland

Indonesia applies for REDD partnership to protect forests

New fire record for Borneo, Sumatra shows dramatic increase in rainforest destruction

Clinton, Obama botch opportunity on climate, forest conservation

Indonesia confirms that peatlands will be converted for plantations

Indonesia may allow conversion of peatlands for palm oil

Indigenous rights’ groups to oppose effort to certify ‘sustainable’ aquaculture

Visiting New Mexico’s Crane festival

Deal on forests falls short

Finland, Sweden push for loophole that would drive destruction of peatlands around the world

Manatees become conservation symbol for communities in Mexico

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service program restores bird habitat on farms and ranches

Yellowstone amphibians in decline due to climate change

Tropical wetlands sequester 80% more carbon than temperate wetlands

11 species of monkeys discovered in West African biodiversity hotspot

Migratory waterbird populations in decline in Europe

Brazil may ban new sugar cane cultivation in the Pantanal

New mapping system shows how detailed climate changes will affect species

Destruction of wetlands worsens global warming

Kenya to convert 20,000 ha of key wetland for ethanol production

REDD could trigger bias in conservation funding towards carbon-rich ecosystems

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