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A promising initiative to address deforestation in Brazil at the local level

Beto Veríssimo 5 Mar 2013

Can saving forests help feed the world?

Steve Schwartzman 28 Feb 2013

Featured video: Saving the Amazon through maps

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

Scientists document baby giant armadillo for first time (photos)

Jeremy Hance 19 Feb 2013

Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films shocking wildlife bonanza in threatened forest

Jeremy Hance 19 Feb 2013

Will Amazon species lose the climate change race?

Thomas Handley 14 Feb 2013

Fossil fuel company looking to exploit deposits in Manu National Park

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2013

Amazon river ecosystems being rapidly degraded, but remain neglected by conservation efforts

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Feb 2013

From slash-and-burn to Amazon heroes: new video series highlights agricultural transformation

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2013

Illegally logged trees to start calling for help

Jeremy Hance 24 Jan 2013

Photos: Scientists discover tapir bonanza in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 22 Jan 2013

Gold mine approved in French Guiana’s only national park

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2013

Colombia to double the size of massive Amazon reserve to include uncontacted tribes’ land

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jan 2013

The year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2012

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

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2012

Norway payments to Brazil for reducing deforestation reach $670 million

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

David Hill 15 Oct 2012

New forest map shows 6% of Amazon deforested between 2000 and 2010

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2012

Pictures: Bolivian park may have the world’s highest biodiversity

Jeremy Hance 12 Sep 2012

Survivors say gold miners in helicopter massacred village of 80 in Venezuelan Amazon

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2012

Evidence of ‘isolated’ indigenous people found in Peru where priest is pushing highway

David Hill 14 Aug 2012

Human rights court favors indigenous tribe over Ecuadorian government in oil battle

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2012

Guyana rainforests secure trust fund

Jeremy Hance 30 Jul 2012

165,000 sq km of Colombian rainforest mapped in stunning detail using lasers, satellites

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jul 2012

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2012

Brazil cripples illegal gold mining operations in indigenous territory

Jeremy Hance 18 Jul 2012

Still time to save most species in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 12 Jul 2012

Critically Endangered capuchins discovered in four new locations

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2012

Experts dispute recent study that claims little impact by pre-Columbian tribes in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 5 Jul 2012

96 percent of the world’s species remain unevaluated by the Red List

Jeremy Hance 28 Jun 2012

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