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Loving the tapir: pioneering conservation for South America’s biggest animal

Peru president signs indigenous rights act into law

Cute animal picture of the day: baby Bolivian gray titi monkey

Photo: new titi monkey discovered in Amazon area under siege

Indigenous protestors embark on 300-mile walk to protest Amazon road in Bolivia

Lessons from the world’s longest study of rainforest fragments

Indigenous peoples in Suriname still wait for land rights

Suspects named for assassination of husband and wife activists in Brazil

Oil company hires indigenous people to clean up its Amazon spill with rags and buckets

Peru cancels massive dam project after years of protests

Last chance to see: the Amazon’s Xingu River

Germany backs out of Yasuni deal

Shareholders to Chevron: company showing ‘poor judgment’ in Ecuador oil spill case

Killing in the name of deforestation: Amazon activist and wife assassinated

Authorities launch stealth operation in Amazon after satellite images reveal deforestation

Uncovering the private lives of Amazon wildlife through camera traps

ConocoPhillips withdraws from oil exploitation in uncontacted indigenous territory

Controversial Brazilian mega-dam receives investment of $1.4 billion

Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon

NASA image reveals extent of 2010 Amazon drought

Giant fish help grow the Amazon rainforest

Indigenous group claims Ecuadorian government complicit in ‘genocide’

‘Luck and perseverance’: new plant genus discovered in Amazon

Last year’s drought hit Amazon hard: nearly a million square miles impacted

Amazon still neglected by researchers

Leaf harvesting impacts Amazon palm

Bill Clinton takes on Brazil’s megadams, James Cameron backs tribal groups

Photos: two new freshwater stingrays discovered in the Amazon

World’s most controversial dam, Brazil’s Belo Monte, back on

Report: 90 oil spills in Peruvian Amazon over 3 years

Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe

Judge suspends Brazil’s monster dam: contractor ‘imposing’ its interests

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