<![CDATA[deforestation news from mongabay.com]]> http://www.mongabay.com en-us Copyright 2006 mongabay.com Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Global wildlife declines 30% in 30 years]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0516-wildlife.html Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0516-wildlife.html <![CDATA[Prince Charles calls for rainforest protection to fight climate change]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-prince.html Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-prince.html <![CDATA[Brazil will forge its own path for developing the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-amazon.html Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-amazon.html <![CDATA[Tropical deforestation is 'one of the worst crises since we came out of our caves']]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-hance_myers.html Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-hance_myers.html <![CDATA[After acquittal, fear of open season on activists in the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-brazil_ap.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-brazil_ap.html <![CDATA[Convicted nun-killer freed in the Brazilian Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-stang_murder.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-stang_murder.html <![CDATA[Papua signs REDD carbon deal to generate income from rainforest protection]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-papua.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-papua.html <![CDATA[Al Gore's investment firm bets that rainforest conservation will be profitable]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-new_forests.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-new_forests.html <![CDATA[Brazil's environmental minister resigns after losing Amazon fight]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-brazil.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-brazil.html <![CDATA[U.S. climate policy could help save rainforests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-interview_horowitz.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-interview_horowitz.html <![CDATA[Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests]]> The Jakarta Post. The move is a response to growing criticism that oil palm expansion is destroying biologically-rich rainforests and contributing to global warming.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-palm_oil.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[China to push for overseas acquisition of farmland to improve food security]]> Financial Times. Under a proposal by the Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese companies will be encouraged to acquire farmland overseas. The initiative would make foreign land acquisition by Chinese agricultural firms a central government policy.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-china.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-china.html <![CDATA[46% of Brazil's energy comes from renewable sources]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-brazil.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-brazil.html <![CDATA[Massive deforestation of mangroves may have worsened scale of disaster in Burma]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-hance_mangroves.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-hance_mangroves.html <![CDATA[Sustainability conference reveals a rift in the Malaysian Palm Oil Council]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-palm_oil.html Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[High palm oil prices kill the biodiesel market for Asia]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-biodiesel.html Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-biodiesel.html <![CDATA[No longer a fan of Earth Day]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-hance_earth_day.html Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-hance_earth_day.html <![CDATA[Unilever calls for ban on rainforest destruction for palm oil]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-unilever.html Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-unilever.html <![CDATA[No sacrifices to ending deforestation in the Amazon, only gains]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-hance_abranches_interview.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-hance_abranches_interview.html <![CDATA[Photos of newly discovered species in Brazil's Cerrado]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-cerrado.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-cerrado.html <![CDATA[Fast-food industry destroying forests in the Southern U.S]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0428-davis_nofreerefills.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0428-davis_nofreerefills.html <![CDATA['Soy King' says Amazon deforestation could help solve global food crisis]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0428-brazil.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0428-brazil.html <![CDATA[Brazil prepares to launch attack on NGOs working in the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0428-amazon.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0428-amazon.html <![CDATA[Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0422-julio_garcia.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0422-julio_garcia.html <![CDATA[What you do to help save rainforests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0422-rainforests.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0422-rainforests.html <![CDATA[A billion trees to be planted in Brazil's Atlantic Forest over the next 7 years]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0422-hance_plantabillion.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0422-hance_plantabillion.html <![CDATA[Cache of rare and undiscovered species under threat in Panama]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0421-panama.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0421-panama.html <![CDATA[Unilever admits it can't trace origin of palm oil used in its products]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0421-greenpeace.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0421-greenpeace.html <![CDATA[Borneo's pygmy elephants are an alien species]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-borneo_elephants.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-borneo_elephants.html <![CDATA[Malaysian palm oil industry puts sustainability in the spotlight]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-palm_oil_sustainability.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-palm_oil_sustainability.html <![CDATA[The FSC is the 'Enron of forestry' says rainforest activist]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-hance_interview_counsell.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-hance_interview_counsell.html <![CDATA[Photos by late Borneo rainforest hero, indigenous rights activist go online]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-hance_manser.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-hance_manser.html <![CDATA[Saving the world's most recently discovered cat species in Borneo]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0410-interview_hearn_ross.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0410-interview_hearn_ross.html <![CDATA[Land invasions undermine Amazon forest law]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0403-carter_amazon.html Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0403-carter_amazon.html <![CDATA[Amazon soy ban seems to be effective in reducing explicit deforestation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0403-amazon_soy_ban.html Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0403-amazon_soy_ban.html <![CDATA[Monarch butterfly migration threatened by illegal logging in Mexico]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-monarch.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-monarch.html <![CDATA[Global warming solutions are harming indigenous people, says U.N.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-redd_indigenous_people.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-redd_indigenous_people.html <![CDATA[Investing to save rainforests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-hylton_interview.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-hylton_interview.html <![CDATA[Corn planting to drop 8% in 2008]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0331-corn.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0331-corn.html <![CDATA[Asia Pulp & Paper destroying rare Sumatra forest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-sumatra_road.html Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-sumatra_road.html <![CDATA[Private equity firm buys rights to ecosystem services of Guyana rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-iwokrama.html Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-iwokrama.html <![CDATA[FSC has 'failed the world's forests' say critics]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0325-hance_fsc.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0325-hance_fsc.html <![CDATA[Fire monitoring by satellite becomes key conservation tool]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-interview_fire_alerts.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-interview_fire_alerts.html <![CDATA[U.S. furniture demand drives illegal logging in Laos]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0324-hance_vietnam_laos.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0324-hance_vietnam_laos.html <![CDATA[Railroad could reduce Amazon deforestation relative to proposed highway]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0324-amazon.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0324-amazon.html <![CDATA[Ecosystems in the Philippines bounce back from the brink]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0319-hance_philippines.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0319-hance_philippines.html <![CDATA[Do parks worsen deforestation through 'leakage'?]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0317-ewers_rodrigues.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0317-ewers_rodrigues.html <![CDATA[Papua New Guinea to ban log exports by 2010]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0318-png.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0318-png.html <![CDATA[Industry-driven road-building to fuel Amazon deforestation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0312-perz_amazon.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0312-perz_amazon.html <![CDATA[Cellulosic energy may trigger dramatic collapse in the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0311-sawyer_amazon.html Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0311-sawyer_amazon.html