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Fossil fuel company looking to exploit deposits in Manu National Park

From slash-and-burn to Amazon heroes: new video series highlights agricultural transformation

Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Illegally logged trees to start calling for help

Photos: Scientists discover tapir bonanza in the Amazon

Gold mine approved in French Guiana’s only national park

Some Amazon trees more than 8 million years old

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

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

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon

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

Survivors say gold miners in helicopter massacred village of 80 in Venezuelan Amazon

Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazilian court, appeal likely but difficult

Evidence of ‘isolated’ indigenous people found in Peru where priest is pushing highway

Guyana rainforests secure trust fund

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Brazil cripples illegal gold mining operations in indigenous territory

Still time to save most species in the Brazilian Amazon

Indigenous tribes end occupation of Belo Monte

Vietnam buys stakes in controversial oil blocks threatening Peru’s most vulnerable indigenous people

Critically Endangered capuchins discovered in four new locations

Experts dispute recent study that claims little impact by pre-Columbian tribes in Amazon

Indigenous tribes occupy Belo Monte dam for over 10 days

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Jaguars photographed in palm oil plantation

U.S. car manufacturers linked to Amazon destruction, slave labor

Can loggers be conservationists?

Oil company Perenco endangering ‘uncontacted’ indigenous people, says Peru

Featured video: How to save the Amazon

Indigenous groups oppose priest pushing for road through uncontacted tribes’ land

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