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Protests over tuna industry development plans in Papua New Guinea

Palm oil developers in Papua New Guinea accused of deception in dealing with communities

On the edge of extinction, Fiji petrels observed at sea for the first time

New species everywhere in Papua New Guinea’s ‘lost’ volcano

World’s rarest tree kangaroo gets help from those who once hunted it

Palm oil companies trade plantation concessions for carbon credits from forest conservation

Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas to help finance cutting of rainforests for palm oil, say NGOs

Mixed signals from the crown? Queen knights logging tycoon while Prince fights deforestation

Six nations pledge to protect the Coral Triangle

Photos: Undocumented species discovered in Papua New Guinea

DR Congo, Indonesia, PNG, Tanzania, Vietnam win REDD funding for forest conservation

Papua New Guinea creates first nature reserve

24% of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest destroyed or degraded by logging in 30 years

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

Indonesian ecolabeling initiative providing cover for rainforest destruction

Drought and deforestation in southeast Asia linked to climate change

REDD may harm forest people, alleges report

Guide to reducing emissions through forest conservation released

Carbon market could pay poor farmers to adopt sustainable cultivation techniques

California joins effort to fight global warming by saving rainforests

Conflict in PNG between govt and landowners over REDD carbon trading

New gecko species discovered

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

U.S. pledges $40M toward coral reef conservation.

Malaysian oil palm firms eye Papua for expansion

Unknown but critically endangered iguana species discovered in Fiji

Photo: commonly-kept gecko was thought to be extinct in the wild

China’s log imports fall 19% in first half of 2008 due to high prices

Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

“Turtle carbon” could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles

Loggers, palm oil firms eye remote rainforests of Papua for development

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