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Amazon deforestation could be eliminated with carbon priced at $3

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Dec 2007

Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2007

Dutch bank arranges carbon-conservation deal in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2007

Ground-breaking Amazon rainforest imagery will help monitor deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2007

Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2007

Amphibian extinction may be worse than thought

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2007
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Is Amazon conservation worth more than clearing for cattle or soy?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2007

South American development plan could destroy the Amazon

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2007

Rainforest tribe establishes massive sustainable-use reserve

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2007

China urged to join sustainable soy efforts in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2007

Peru’s deforestation rate surged in 2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Aug 2007

Amazon deforestation in Brazil falls 29% for 2007

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2007

Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2007

Ethnobotanist honored for contributions to wilderness medicine

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2007

Poverty and corruption reduce effectiveness of rainforest parks

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2007

450 years of Amazon research reviewed

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jul 2007

Forest disturbance reduces biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jul 2007

Mining gets approval despite recent species discoveries

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2007

Google helps protect Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jun 2007

Can cattle ranchers and soy farmers save the Amazon?

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jun 2007

Globalization could save the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jun 2007

Reducing tropical deforestation will help fight global warming

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2007

Climate change could dramatically change forests in Central America

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2007

Commercial hunting is a major threat to tropical rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2007

Brazil to give Amazonian tribes Internet access to fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 30 Mar 2007

Can new loan really bring sustainable cattle ranching to the Amazon?

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2007

Ecuadorian brothers show conservation-based microentrepreneurship possible

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2007

New park in French Guiana creates largest Amazon protected area

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Feb 2007

Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Feb 2007

Brazil to allow large-scale monitored harvesting of the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2007

Just how bad is the biodiversity extinction crisis?

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2007

Who pays for Amazon rainforest conservation?

Rhett A. Butler 12 Dec 2006

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