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Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

Guyana expedition finds biodiversity trove in area slated for oil and gas development, an interview with Robert Pickles

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2009

No-shows among South American leaders at Amazon summit

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2009

High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2009

Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

Sarah Monaghan 22 Nov 2009

Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2009

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2009

Brazil pledges to restrain emissions growth

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2009

Brazil releases official Amazon deforestation figures for 2009

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2009

Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2009

How rainforest shamans treat disease

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2009

Non-Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil producers pledge not to develop peatlands for plantations

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2009

Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2009

Google partners with Amazon tribe

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2009

Brazil to support REDD in Copenhagen

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2009

Crisis averted for now, Peruvian natives will meet with Hunt Oil

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2009

Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2009

Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with “their lives”

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2009

The faster, fiercer, and always surprising sloth, an interview with Bryson Voirin

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2009

Brazilian beef giants agree to moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2009

Could agroforestry solve the biodiversity crisis and address poverty?, an interview with Shonil Bhagwat

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2009

Will tropical trees survive climate change?, an interview with Kenneth J. Feeley

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2009

Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2009

Working to save the ‘living dead’ in the Atlantic Forest, an interview with Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2009

Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Sep 2009

Brazil may ban sugarcane plantations from the Amazon, Pantanal

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2009

Heavy oil pollution remains in Amazon, despite company claiming clean-up is finished

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2009

Emissions from cerrado destruction in Brazil equal to emissions from Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2009

Social causes of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2009

Oil road transforms indigenous nomadic hunters into commercial poachers in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2009

Brazil to step up efforts to save the cerrado grassland

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2009

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009

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