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Rainforest news review for 2013

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Featured video: ‘this is day one for the olinguito’

Colombia establishes giant rainforest park to protect ‘uncontacted’ tribes

Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hiding out in Andean cloud forests (photos)

Deforestation rates for Amazon countries outside Brazil

First strike: nearly 200 illegal loggers arrested in massive sting across 12 countries

The year in rainforests

108 million ha of Amazon rainforest up for oil and gas exploration, development

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

Forest expands 3% in Colombia during 2000s, but loss grows in llanos region

New bird discovered in Colombia imperiled by hydroelectric project

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

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Educating the next generation of conservation leaders in Colombia

World’s most toxic frog gets new reserve

‘Gold’ standard for REDD forest conservation project in Colombia’s Choco

New global carbon map for 2.5 billion ha of forests

Amazon still neglected by researchers

Cocaine production killing Colombia’s rainforests

146 dams threaten Amazon basin

Nation’s wealth does not guarantee green practices

Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records

New bird discovered in Colombia—and released alive

Taking back the rainforest: Indians in Colombia govern 100,000 square miles of territory

Cochabamba Climate Conference: the Coca Contradiction

More research and conservation efforts needed to save Colombia’s monkeys

REDD in Colombia: using forests to finance conservation and communities in Colombia’s Choco, a former war zone

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

Monstrous prehistoric snake provides glimpse of warmer tropical forests

Photos of new frogs discovered in Colombia

Tropical dry forest fragments important to conserving reptile biodiversity in Colombia

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