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Fisherman killed by two Komodo dragons

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2009

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

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2009

Fastest evolving bird family produces new species

Jeremy Hance 16 Mar 2009

Seven new species of deep sea coral discovered

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2009

Papua New Guinea creates first nature reserve

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2009

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2009

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2009

Indonesian ecolabeling initiative providing cover for rainforest destruction

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2009

Drought and deforestation in southeast Asia linked to climate change

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2008

REDD may harm forest people, alleges report

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2008

Guide to reducing emissions through forest conservation released

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2008

Carbon market could pay poor farmers to adopt sustainable cultivation techniques

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2008

Studying world’s rarest penguin leads to the discovery of a new species

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2008

California joins effort to fight global warming by saving rainforests

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Nov 2008

Conflict in PNG between govt and landowners over REDD carbon trading

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2008

New gecko species discovered

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2008

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

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2008

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

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2008

Malaysian oil palm firms eye Papua for expansion

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Unknown but critically endangered iguana species discovered in Fiji

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2008

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Sep 2008

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

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2008

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

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2008

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2008

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2008

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

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2008

China’s log imports fall in Q1 2008

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2008

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests disappearing faster than thought

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2008

Al Gore’s investment firm bets that rainforest conservation will be profitable

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2008

Papua signs REDD carbon deal to generate income from rainforest protection

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2008

Papua New Guinea to ban log exports by 2010

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2008

New rule grants rainforest to mining firms in Indonesia for $80/acre

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Mar 2008

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