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Peru gets $120m to protect 212,000 sq mi of Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 13 May 2009

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2009

Peru seeks $200 million to save its rainforests

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2008

Peru’s uncontacted Amazon tribes under attack

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2008

Exelon signs rainforest conservation deal to help reduce emissions

Mongabay.com 13 Oct 2008

Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru’s President Garcia

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2008

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2008

Fruit bats frequent clay-licks in the Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2008

Photos of arrow-wielding uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 30 May 2008

Pictures of uncontacted Indian tribe in the Amazon (update)

Mongabay.com 30 May 2008

Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Apr 2008

Peru to replant 10 million hectares of forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2008

Rainforest destruction increasingly driven by corporate interests, not poverty

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2007

Tropical forests face huge threat from industrial agriculture

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2007

Uncontacted Amazon tribe spotted by plane in Peru

Mongabay.com 21 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

New flycatcher bird species discovered in Peru

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2007

Experts: parks effectively protect rainforest in Peru

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2007

Toll road could raise money for Amazon conservation

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2007

450 years of Amazon research reviewed

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jul 2007

Peru makes progress on illegal mahogany logging

Mongabay.com 16 May 2007

Can we save the rainforests? Lessons from the Amazon

rhett-butler 5 May 2006

Exploring the Flooded Streets of Iquitos, Peru

rhett-butler 9 Apr 2006

Malaria linked to Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Feb 2006

Amazon river at record low levels; deforestation blamed

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2005

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