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Scientist discovers a plethora of new praying mantises (pictures)

Several Amazonian tree frog species discovered, where only two existed before

Mother of God: meet the 26 year old Indiana Jones of the Amazon, Paul Rosolie

Amazon trees super-diverse in chemicals

New $20,000 reporting grant explores benefits of Amazonian protected areas

Featured video: camera traps catch jaguars, anteaters, and a sloth eating clay in the Amazon rainforest

High-living frogs hurt by remote oil roads in the Amazon

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Could camera trap videos galvanize the world to protect Yasuni from oil drilling?

Scientist splits Amazonian giants into separate species

Featured video: 22-year-old produces documentary on the Peruvian Amazon

Over 100 scientists warn Ecuadorian Congress against oil development in Yasuni

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

Amazonian students help monitor threatened frog populations

Bird extravaganza: scientists discover 15 new species of birds in the Amazon

Crazy cat numbers: unusually high jaguar densities discovered in the Amazon rainforest

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Amazon: the world’s greatest rainforest or internet giant?

Indigenous group: Brazil using military to force Amazon dams

Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films shocking wildlife bonanza in threatened forest

Gold mine approved in French Guiana’s only national park

Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Pictures: Bolivian park may have the world’s highest biodiversity

Guyana rainforests secure trust fund

Still time to save most species in the Brazilian Amazon

96 percent of the world’s species remain unevaluated by the Red List

Can loggers be conservationists?

Amazon plant yields miracle cure for dental pain

Innovative program seeks to safeguard Peruvian Amazon from impacts of Inter-Oceanic Highway

Tourism for biodiversity in Tambopata

Majority of protected tropical forests “empty” due to hunting

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