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Saving forests by putting a price on them

Frank Merry 4 Mar 2013

The challenge of putting Brazil’s forests in good hands

Andrea Margit 28 Feb 2013

Deforestation, wetlands loss in Brazil and Indonesia generated 45b tons of CO2 in 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2013

First strike: nearly 200 illegal loggers arrested in massive sting across 12 countries

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

Scientists document baby giant armadillo for first time (photos)

Jeremy Hance 19 Feb 2013

Brazilian agency rejects Canadian company’s bid to mine controversial Amazon dam site for gold

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2013

Carbon release, storage by rainforests may increase by 50b tons for each degree of climate warming in the tropics

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Feb 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Rate of tree die-off in Amazon higher than conventionally believed

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Feb 2013

Loans tied to environmental compliance reduced Amazon deforestation by 15%

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jan 2013

Brazil to inventory the Amazon

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2013

Illegally logged trees to start calling for help

Jeremy Hance 24 Jan 2013

Amazon deforestation rate pacing ahead of last year

Mongabay.com 18 Jan 2013

Can ranchers co-exist with jaguars?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2013

Nest of one of world’s rarest birds discovered for the first time

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2013

The year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2012

Brazil launches forest trading system

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2012

Brazil sues to block unlicensed REDD deal between Irish company and indigenous group

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2012

Advanced technology reveals massive tree die-off in remote, unexplored parts of the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Dec 2012

Recovery of Atlantic Forest depends on land-use histories

Thomas Handley 10 Dec 2012

Dams are rapidly damning the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2012

108 million ha of Amazon rainforest up for oil and gas exploration, development

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2012

Norway payments to Brazil for reducing deforestation reach $670 million

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2012

Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2012

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

With deforestation falling, energy sector to become Brazil’s biggest CO2 source

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2012

REDD+ negotiations in Doha at impasse, potentially delaying decisions on safeguards another year

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2012

Brazilian bank approves $10.8 billion loan for controversial Amazon rainforest dam

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2012

Brazil’s deforestation at record low from 2011-2012

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2012

Endangered muriqui monkeys in Brazil full of surprises

Elizabeth Devitt 26 Nov 2012

Amazon deforestation tracking higher in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2012

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2012

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