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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

Pictures: Destruction of the Amazon’s Xingu River begins for Belo Monte Dam

U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru’s Amazon rainforest

Judge suspends Brazilian dam that would flood sacred waterfalls

Indigenous groups fight for recognition and illumination in Peru

Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view from the ground

Amazon plant yields miracle cure for dental pain

Climate change could increase fires, logging, and hunting in rainforests

International Labor Organization raps Brazil over monster dam

Rally calls on Brazil President to veto new forest code

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

Tourism for biodiversity in Tambopata

Humans drove rainforest into savannah in ancient Africa

Majority of protected tropical forests “empty” due to hunting

New rainforest and indigenous reserve established in Peru

Guyanese tribe maps Connecticut-sized rainforest for land rights

Fungus from the Amazon devours plastic

Photo of the day: super-abundance of life found in Amazon park

Group releases close-up photos of ‘uncontacted’ tribe in Peru

New meteorological theory argues that the world’s forests are rainmakers

Brazilian mining company connected to Belo Monte dam voted worst corporation

Saving the world’s biggest river otter

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