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Brazil establishes 2 Amazon parks covering 2.4m acres

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2013

Amazon rainforest tribe sells REDD+ credits to Brazilian cosmetics giant

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2013

Scientists catch boa constrictor eating a howler monkey (photos)

Jeremy Hance 2 Sep 2013

$450/ha tax on deforestation could help curb forest loss in Bolivia, suggests new simulation

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2013

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

Colombia establishes giant rainforest park to protect ‘uncontacted’ tribes

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Aug 2013

Brazil’s military takes on illegal loggers to protect nearly-extinct tribe

Jeremy Hance 18 Jul 2013

Forgotten species: the arapaima or ‘dinosaur fish’

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2013

Stand up paddleboarding in the Amazon for conservation

Alex Rodriguez 9 Jul 2013

Amazonian students help monitor threatened frog populations

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2013

Brazilian state to pay counties that cut Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2013

Over 30 tons of explosives to be detonated in Manu National Park buffer zone

David Hill 24 Jun 2013

Bird extravaganza: scientists discover 15 new species of birds in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2013

11,000 barrels of oil spill into the Coca River in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2013

Indigenous carbon conservation project gets verification, will start generating credits

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 May 2013

Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2013

Crazy cat numbers: unusually high jaguar densities discovered in the Amazon rainforest

Zach Fitzner 16 May 2013

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2013

Brazil’s satellite monitoring reduced Amazon deforestation by 60,000 sq km in 5 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 May 2013

Debate heats up over California’s plan to reduce emissions via rainforest protection

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 May 2013

Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2013

Amazon: the world’s greatest rainforest or internet giant?

Jonathan Watts 25 Apr 2013

Brazil’s success in reducing deforestation will be hard to replicate

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2013

Featured video: Earth Day message from indigenous tribes in the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2013

Brazil threatens $282m in fines for beef linked to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2013

6 lessons for stopping deforestation on the frontier

Daniel Nepstad 9 Apr 2013

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

David Hill 4 Apr 2013

Conflict zones have higher deforestation rates in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Mar 2013

Disney buys $3.5M in REDD credits from rainforest conservation project in Peru

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2013

Parks, indigenous territories are effectively reducing Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2013

Crocodilian competition may hinder conservation efforts in Amazon

Lacey Avery 11 Mar 2013

Gucci launches ‘zero-deforestation’ handbag

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2013

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