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Crowned sifaka population on the verge of local extinction: dispatch from the field

Josia Razafindramanana 8 Sep 2009

Activists target Brazil’s largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009
U.S.-based Cargill corporation burns large areas of Amazon rainforest in norther Pará state to prepare for soya plantations in 2003. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace

20% of land deforested in the Brazilian Amazon is regrowing forest

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Sep 2009

Amazon tribes have long fought bloody battles against big oil in Ecuador

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2009

Germany to pay Ecuador $650 million to forgo oil drilling, protect rainforest reserve

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2009

Amazon deforestation to fall 30% in 2009

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

New Amazonian reserve saves over a million acres in Peru

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2009

Brazil’s ‘Obama’ weighs presidential bid

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2009

Photos reveal illegal logging near uncontacted natives in Peru

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2009

Police face murder charges in killing of indigenous protesters in Peru

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2009

Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2009

Amazon stores 10 billion tons of carbon in ‘dead wood’

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2009

Brazil’s environment minister Minc to step down

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2009

Peru to proceed with oil and gas auctions in the Amazon despite indigenous protests

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2009

Amazon deforestation falls in June

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2009

Peru to raise payment to indigenous communities for Amazon forest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2009

Indigenous communities threatened by climate change

Ryan King 3 Aug 2009

Weeks after bloodshed, American oil moves into Peruvian Amazon, putting rainforest, possible archeological site at risk

A Perspectivehambone Littletail (contact) 3 Aug 2009

Emissions from Amazon deforestation to rise as loggers move deeper into the rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2009

Alcoa mine to clear 25,000 acres of rainforest, suck 133,407 gallons of water per hour from the Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2009

Timberland announces policy to avoid using leather produced by Amazon destruction

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2009

Brazilian soy industry extends moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2009

Nike implements policy to avoid leather produced via Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2009

Chevron expects to lose $27B suit but will refuse to pay damages

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2009

Are we on the brink of saving rainforests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2009

NASA photos show severe flooding in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2009

Can non-timber forest products help conserve the Amazon?

Guest 20 Jul 2009

Illegal Amazon timber passed off as eco-certified in massive wood laundering scheme

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2009

Age of the Amazon River estimated at 11 million years

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2009

Tiny monkey species discovered in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2009

Extinction risk for Amazonian plants may be lower than previously estimated

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2009

Brazil’s development bank to require beef-tracking system to avoid illegal Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2009

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