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Plant communities changing across the globe, says scientist Sasha Wright

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2009

Traditional practices contribute to conservation of medicinal plants

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2009

Loss of genetic diversity hurts agriculture

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2009

Tropical forest tree is source of new mosquito repellent as effective as DEET

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Chocolate has been a delicacy north of Mexico for a thousand years

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2009

Photos: Google Earth used to find new species

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2008

What allows rainforests to grow so wildly?

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2008

Tropical species face high extinction risk

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2008

Invasive ant interferes with gecko’s role in pollinating endangered plant

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2008

IP laws not helping indigenous people protect traditional knowledge (repost)

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2008

Rainforest biodiversity results from habitat specialization rather than chance

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2008

Breakthrough may enable reforestation using mahogany

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2008

Loss of wildlife is threatening biodiverse forests in northeastern India

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Regrowing the Amazon rainforest will require help from bats and birds

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

New tree species discovered in Amazon biodiversity hotspot

Special To Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2008

Account of 18th century Amazon adventurer to be published for the first time

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

20% of the Brazilian Amazon’s tree species to go extinct

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

An interview a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2008

Elephants may explain Mount Kilimanjaro’s bamboo enigma

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2008

Global warming threatens California’s native plants

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2008

Hunting, deforestation wipe out 6 of 7 hornbill species in Borneo park

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

New discoveries about past forest changes may help predict future ones in a changing climate

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2008

Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2008

Defaunation, like deforestation, threatens global biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2008

Insect diversity in the tropics greater than previously believed

Mongabay.com 15 May 2008

‘CAT scan’ shows Hawaiian forests invaded by alien species

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2008

Giant exploding palm tree discovered in Madagascar

Rbg Kew 17 Jan 2008

Dirt-munching helps protect chimps from malaria

Mongabay.com 10 Jan 2008

Prehistoric Carnivorous Fungi Lassoed its Prey

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2007

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

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2007

Transgenic plant may thrive under global warming-induced drought

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2007

Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2007

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