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U.S. and Brazil sign deforestation agreement

Masyarakat hutan hujan memiliki hak karbon untuk lahan yang ada

Guyana bans gold mining in the ‘Land of the Giants’

Photos: highest diversity of cats in the world discovered in threatened forest of India

Under siege: oil and gas concessions cover 41 percent of the Peruvian Amazon

Commodity trade and urbanization, rather than rural poverty, drive deforestation

Birder captures first footage ever of long whiskered owlet, one of the world’s rarest birds

Photos: park in Ecuador likely contains world’s highest biodiversity, but threatened by oil

Uncontacted natives confirmed in Brazil

Gone: a look at extinction over the past decade

Rainforest conservation: a year in review

Ecuador to be paid to leave oil in the ground

Brazil establishes 20,000 sq mi of new indigenous reserves in the Amazon

The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation

Amazon cattle ranching accounts for half of Brazil’s CO2 emissions

Google Earth to monitor deforestation

Brazil allocates first funds under plan to save the Amazon

Changing drivers of deforestation provide new opportunities for conservation

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Destruction of old-growth forests looms over climate talks

Brazil could halt Amazon deforestation within a decade

Cheap REDD isn’t the best conservation strategy for biodiversity

Brazil to push for 10% limit on REDD carbon offsets

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Guyana expedition finds biodiversity trove in area slated for oil and gas development, an interview with Robert Pickles

No-shows among South American leaders at Amazon summit

Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

How rainforest shamans treat disease

Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

Brazil to support REDD in Copenhagen

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