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55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2008

Malaysian timber firm fined for illegal rainforest logging in Guyana

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2008

New Jersey scraps plan to buy Amazon rainforest timber

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2008

U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2008

Amazon deforestation surging due to oil, soy prices

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2008

E.U. may ban palm oil biodiesel

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jan 2008

Politics and the Amazon

An Christa Maas 14 Jan 2008

America’s largest monkey recovering after brush with extinction

Jeremy Hance 10 Jan 2008

Guyana grants 1 million acres of Amazon rainforest to U.S. logging firm

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2008

New York City ends use of Amazon rainforest hardwoods in parks

Rainforest Relief/ecological Internet 8 Jan 2008

Peru to replant 10 million hectares of forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2008

Brazil bans illegal soy and cattle production in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2007

U.S. corn subsidies drive Amazon destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Dec 2007

Controversial dam in the Amazon gets Brazilian go-ahead

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2007

Amazon conservation Team wins “Innovation in conservation Award” for path-breaking work with Amazon tribes

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2007

A comprehensive look at the use of animals in Brazilian medicine

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2007

Amazon deforestation rates drop 20% in 2007

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2007

Global warming accelerates destruction of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2007

Tropical forests face huge threat from industrial agriculture

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2007

Piranhas originated when Amazon was flooded by seawater

Grégory Fléchet 4 Dec 2007

Amazon deforestation could be eliminated with carbon priced at $3

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Dec 2007

Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2007

Dutch bank arranges carbon-conservation deal in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2007

Ground-breaking Amazon rainforest imagery will help monitor deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2007

Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2007

Whale stranded 1,000 miles up the Amazon river

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2007

In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary forest, plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2007

Proposed gold mine proves controversial in French Guiana rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2007

New peccary species discovered by embattled Amazon scientist

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2007

Amphibian extinction may be worse than thought

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2007

2007 Amazon fires among worst ever

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2007

Amazon plant diversity still a mystery

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2007

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