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Peru gets $25M in debt relief to fund rainforest conservation

Peru’s uncontacted Amazon tribes under attack

UK government: rainforests are weapon against global warming

Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end

Ecuador’s plan to protect rainforest from oil drilling looks doomed

Ecuador’s Choco under siege, but hope remains

Indigenous people demand greater say in using forests to fight global warming

Forest corridors key to maintaining biodiversity in fragmented landscape

Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest

Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and conflict

Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest

Regrowing the Amazon rainforest will require help from bats and birds

Commercial bushmeat trade is devastating wildlife

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis

Aquarium fish trade linked to cocaine, timber smuggling in Brazil

Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Brazil asks rich countries to fund Amazon conservation

Island biogeography theory doesn’t explain biodiversity changes in forest fragments

An interview a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests

Implementing a butterfly farm: Iwokrama reserve’s latest sustainable initiative

Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically

Kayapo tribe gets trust fund for Amazon protection

Guiana Shield forests help preserve biodiversity and climate

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