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Brazil to search for oil in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2007

Uncontacted Amazon tribe spotted by plane in Peru

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2007
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Is Amazon conservation worth more than clearing for cattle or soy?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2007

Amazon rainforest burning “worst” in memory

October 16 16 Oct 2007

South American development plan could destroy the Amazon

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2007

Rainforest tribe establishes massive sustainable-use reserve

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2007

Fires rage in Amazon rainforest park

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Oct 2007

China urged to join sustainable soy efforts in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2007

Peru’s deforestation rate surged in 2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Aug 2007

Scientists demand Brazil cease Amazon colonization project

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2007

Land reform agency sanctions logging in Amazon rainforest park

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2007

Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Aug 2007

New flycatcher bird species discovered in Peru

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2007

Amazon deforestation in Brazil falls 29% for 2007

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2007

Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2007

Dr. Marc Van Roosmalen, discover of unknown monkey species, freed in Brazil

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2007

Ethnobotanist honored for contributions to wilderness medicine

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2007

Primatologist freed but questions remain for Brazil after “attack on science”

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2007

Scientists demand release of renowned monkey discoverer in Brazil

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2007

Toll road could raise money for Amazon conservation

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2007

US says Brazilian ethanol doesn’t increase food prices, destroy Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2007

Killers of renowned anthropologist sentenced in Brazil

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2007

$11B Amazon rainforest dam gets initial approval

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2007

Poverty and corruption reduce effectiveness of rainforest parks

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2007

Home improvement giant bans illegal wood products

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2007

NASA maps newly proposed source of the Amazon River

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2007

450 years of Amazon research reviewed

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jul 2007

Authorities bust multi-million dollar Amazon logging ring

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2007

Forest disturbance reduces biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jul 2007

Man-eating piranha are actually cowards

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2007

Rainforest trees colonized Africa from the Amazon

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2007

Leading Amazon biologist imprisoned in Brazil; witch-hunt suspected

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jun 2007

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