At least 20,000 orangutans have been killed or captured for the illegal pet trade in the past ten years in Indonesia without a single prosecution, according to a report published by Nature Alert and the Centre for Orangutan Protection

Just weeks after a bloody conflict between indigenous protesters and Peruvian police, Hunt Oil begins exploration in one million acres of pristine rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon, putting wildlife and a potential indigenous archeological site at risk.

Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell below 10,000 square kilometers for the first time since record-keeping began, reported Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc

An 830,000-hectare tract of rainforest in Cameroon has been granted a 30-day reprieve from logging following a 4-week exploratory expedition that turned up large populations of lowland gorillas, forest elephants, mandrills, and chimpanzees,

The opportunity to conserve a one million hectare tract of rainforest in Cameroon is fast dwindling due financial pressures in the Central African country. In 2002 the government of Cameroon extended an offer to protect Ngoyla Mintom

Long an isolated land with abundant forests and biodiversity, Laos is rapidly developing as China and other Asian nations exploit its resources. One of the first casualties has been the wildlife, now being rapidly depleted by a thriving black-market trade

ACCOR, one of Europe's leading hotel groups, is cooperating with a Malaysian logging company blamed for destructive logging and attacks on Penan indigenous communities in Sarawak.

Undisturbed tropical forests are absorbing nearly a fifth of carbon dioxide released annually by the burning of fossil fuels.

The Obama Administration squandered an opportunity to demonstrate U.S. leadership on climate and forest conservation issues when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to bring up a new Indonesian government decree to allow the conversion of carbon-ric

A nationwide review of the Boy Scouts of America by Hearst newspapers has shown that one-third of Boy Scouts' councils have been involved in logging to raise funds for the beleaguered organization.