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When science hijacks conservation funding
Clean energy investment moving too slowly to avoid irreversible climate change
Only one out of 91 antelope species is on the rise
Indonesia applies for REDD partnership to protect forests
Amazon deforestation drops 70% for Nov 2008-Jan 2009 period
Climate change could devastate lizards in the tropics
Papua New Guinea creates first nature reserve
Landmark agreement by 35 villages secures first first national conservation for PNG
Tigers continue killing rampage in Indonesia
Economic crisis hits conservation but may offer opportunities, says TNC president
An interview with Mark Tercek, president and CEO of the Nature Conservancy, one of the world's largest conservation groups.
Cameroon may liquidate rainforest reserve if conservationists don’t step forward
Aquatic animals emit powerful greenhouse gas
Time to give up on Tasmanian tiger, says DNA expert
Largest US protest on climate change today
14,000-barrel oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon
Deforestation blamed for tiger maulings in Sumatra
Massive freshwater stingray takes 13 men to pull it ashore in Thailand
It took ninety minutes and thirteen men to reel in an astounding specimen of giant freshwater stingray on the Ban Pakong River in Thailand. At seven feet wide and weighing…
China’s emissions rise 45%, but Western demand accounts for 30% of increase
Could America’s 700 billion stimulus have saved life on earth?
400-million-year-old fish at risk from harbor project
Population of prehistoric deep-ocean coelacanth may go the way of the dinosaurs. A harbor project in Tanzania may put a population of coelacanth at risk, reports Nature News. A port…
Illegal fishing estimated at $10-24B per year
Ecstasy threatens rainforests in Cambodia
Whole Foods bans unsustainable palm oil from its products
Whole Foods pledges to use only sources of palm oil that have been independently verified and certified to meet environmental and social sustainability criteria in its private label brand products…
Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite crashes immediately after launch
YouTube videos may be imperiling cuddly primate
Conservationists worry that YouTube videos of pet slow lorises worsen illegal and cruel trade
Photos: Rarest cheetah photographed for the first time
On the edge of extinction, desert-dwelling cheetah photographed for first time by camera traps
Box turtles in Asia imperiled by massive trade
Massive international trade in Southeast Asian Box Turtles (Cuora amboinensis) has driven the species to near-extinction in parts of Indonesia, according to a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade…
Biologists warn of rainforest mining threat from Alcoa, Newmont in Suriname
ACCOR hotel chain linked to destructive logging in Borneo?
27-Feb update: ACCOR to meet Interhill over destructive logging allegations
24% of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest destroyed or degraded by logging in 30 years
Nearly one quarter of Papua New Guinea's rainforests were damaged or destroyed between 1972 and 2002, report researchers writing in the journal Biotopica. The results, which were published in a…