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Intellectual property rights reach indigenous communities in the Amazon

Carolina Bruun 21 Mar 2007

Amazon, Madagascar, Borneo are top plant biodiversity hotspots

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2007

Poisonous tree frog brings hope to indigenous community in the Amazon

Carolina Bruun 19 Mar 2007

Amazon rainforest fires date back thousands of years

Rhett A. Butler 14 Mar 2007

Can new loan really bring sustainable cattle ranching to the Amazon?

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2007

Amazon rainforest does have rainy and dry seasons

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2007

Ecuadorian brothers show conservation-based microentrepreneurship possible

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2007

Pre-Colombian Amazon rainforest not heavily populated

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2007

Gold mining in Guyana damages environment, threatens Amerindians

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2007

Global warming could trigger 8-degree temperature rise in Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2007

New park in French Guiana creates largest Amazon protected area

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Feb 2007

Climate change will worsen species extinction in South America

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Feb 2007

Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Feb 2007

Brazil to allow large-scale monitored harvesting of the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2007

Largest tropical glacier retreating at 200 feet per year in Peru

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2007

Biofuels, logging may spur deforestation in Guyana

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2007

Amazon deforestation damaging critical ecosystem services

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Feb 2007

Brazil calls out rich countries on global warming

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2007

Just how bad is the biodiversity extinction crisis?

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2007

Gold Rush Tears Up a Patch of the Amazon

The Associated Press 2 Feb 2007

New maps reveal causes of Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2007

Strange spiny rodent discovered in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2007

Two ‘dragon’ species discovered in Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2007

Are Brazil nuts really sustainable?

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Dec 2006

Europe’s largest tropical rainforest invaded by gold miners

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2006

Time is running out for French Guiana’s rainforests

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2006

Who pays for Amazon rainforest conservation?

Rhett A. Butler 12 Dec 2006

Brazil creates world’s largest rainforest reserve

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2006

Fragmentation killing species in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 27 Nov 2006

Mining in Venezuelan Amazon threatens biodiversity, indigenous people

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Nov 2006

Bolivia could earn hundreds of millions under global warming deal

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2006

British firm looks to Amazon rainforest for new drugs

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2006

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