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Brazil may ban sugarcane plantations from the Amazon, Pantanal

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2009

Emissions from cerrado destruction in Brazil equal to emissions from Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2009

Social causes of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2009

Brazil to step up efforts to save the cerrado grassland

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2009

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 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 deforestation to fall 30% in 2009

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

Brazil’s ‘Obama’ weighs presidential bid

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2009

Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2009

Brazil’s environment minister Minc to step down

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2009

Golden lion tamarins play key role in seed dispersal in Brazil’s Mata Atlantica

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2009

Amazon deforestation falls in June

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2009

Indigenous communities threatened by climate change

Ryan King 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

Brazil returns massive shipment of waste to the UK

Ryan King 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

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

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

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2009

Tiny monkey species discovered in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2009

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2009

NASA images show huge drop in Amazon fires in 2008

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jun 2009

Brazil’s minister of ideas, nemesis of former environmental minister, resigns

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2009

Tesco responds to allegations of causing Amazon deforestation

Jeremy Hance 29 Jun 2009

Brazil approves land tenure law that grants 260,000 sq mi of rainforest to settlers, speculators

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2009

Brazilian cattle giant declares moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jun 2009

Brazilian miner Vale signs $500M palm oil deal in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jun 2009

Amazon deforestation in 2009 declines to lowest on record

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2009

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