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Snares set by palm oil workers taking a toll on pygmy elephants of Borneo

Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest

Palm oil firm becomes first to win eco-certification

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Malaysian oil palm firms eye Papua for expansion

Monoculture tree plantations are “green deserts” not forests, say activists

A solution to worldwide fishery collapse?

Teak wood may be improved by greater genetic diversity

Malaysian palm oil industry accused of child slavery by the Indonesian government

Rainforest conversion to oil palm causes 83% of wildlife to disappear

Old growth forests are giant carbon sinks, helping offset emissions

Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands

Reforestation a growing, but complicated, initiative

Half of oil palm expansion in Malaysia, Indonesia occurs at expense of forests

Malaysia announces $103B development plan for Borneo island

10% of China’s forests destroyed in recent storms

Peru to replant 10 million hectares of forest

Will carbon credits-for-forests scheme be undermined by carbon negative bioenergy?

Forest carbon may not fully offset fossil carbon, says expert

In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary forest, plantations

Carbon-negative bioenergy to cut global warming could drive deforestation

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