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Liberia fights illegal logging through agreement with EU

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2011

Chainsaw Milling: Domestic Unregulated Deforestation Agents or Local Entrepreneurs?

Gabriel Thoumi 10 May 2011

Palm oil lobby attacks World Bank’s new social and environmental safeguards

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2011

Study calls for REDD+ money to boost yields in West Africa using agrochemicals

Mongabay.com 10 Apr 2011

What’s behind the 85% decline of mammals in West Africa’s parks?

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

Alien plants invade Nigerian protected ‘gene bank’

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

Top forest policies recognized

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2011

Nigeria moving forward on REDD to protect last remaining forests

Emilie Filou 19 Feb 2011

‘Land grab’ fears in Africa legitimate

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2011

Africa’s vanishing wild: mammal populations cut in half

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2011

95% of Liberia’s elephants killed by poachers

Jeremy Hance 24 Jan 2011

Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

Loss of old growth forest continues

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2010

Hadapi Moratorium dan Kritik di Indonesia, Sinar Mas Cari Kesempatan Baru untuk Minyak Kelapa di Liberia

Indonesia.mongabay.com 27 Sep 2010

Facing moratorium and criticism in Indonesia, Sinar Mas looks to Liberia for new palm oil opportunities

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2010

Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records

Jeremy Hance 9 Aug 2010

Meski Menurun, Pembalakan Liar Masih Masalah Besar

Jeremy Hance, Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2010

Cameroon says goodbye to cheetahs and African wild dogs

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2010

Illegal logging declining worldwide, but still ‘major problem’

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2010

Saving one of West Africa’s last hippo populations

Jeremy Hance 28 Jun 2010

Inga alley cropping: a sustainable alternative to slash and burn agriculture

Charles Barber 14 Jun 2010

Massive forest carbon scam alleged in Liberia

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2010

Gabon bans log exports

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2010

Cameroon agrees to cut illegal wood out of its supply chain

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2010

Farming snails to save the world’s rarest gorillas

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2010

Food crisis in Niger occurring “out of the public eye”

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2010

Global deforestation slows

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Mar 2010

How free trade has devastated Africa’s farmers and poor

Jeremy Hance 15 Feb 2010

Forestry sector needs transparency to reduce risks of REDD

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2010

Sierra Leone cracks down on illegal logging by banning log exports

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2010

Commercial fish smoking is the “most pervasive” threat to mangrove forests in West Africa

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2009

Pygmy hippo shot and killed in…Australia

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2009

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