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Brazilian agency rejects Canadian company’s bid to mine controversial Amazon dam site for gold

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2013

Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Jeremy Hance 29 Jan 2013

Gold mine approved in French Guiana’s only national park

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2013

Mining boom in the Amazon

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2012

Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2012

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 22 Oct 2012

Survivors say gold miners in helicopter massacred village of 80 in Venezuelan Amazon

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2012

Controversial deep sea mining project approved in Papua New Guinea, first of its kind

Jeremy Hance 9 Aug 2012

Peru considers big changes to its environmental reviews

Jeremy Hance 1 Aug 2012

Brazil cripples illegal gold mining operations in indigenous territory

Jeremy Hance 18 Jul 2012

Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view from the ground

Katy Ashe 15 Mar 2012

Tourism for biodiversity in Tambopata

Ryan King 27 Feb 2012

Saving the world’s biggest river otter

Jeremy Hance 30 Jan 2012

Thousands protest giant gold mine in Peru’s mountains

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2011

Peruvian authorities raid illegal gold mining operations

Mongabay.com 7 Nov 2011

High gold price triggers rainforest devastation in Peru

Barbara Fraser 11 Oct 2011

Picture of the day: the high price of gold for the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2011

Indonesia’s moratorium allows mining in protected forests

Mongabay.com 23 May 2011

REDD project developer Carbon Conservation partly acquired by mining company

Mongabay.com 3 May 2011

Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2011

First strike against illegal gold mining in Peru: military destroys miners’ boats

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2011

Epidemic hits Amazonian indigenous group

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2010

Jalan Raya Hutan Hujan Peru Picu Melandanya Penggundulan Hutan, Menurut Pemetaan Baru Hutan 3D

Rhett Ayers Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Sep 2010

Peru’s rainforest highway triggers surge in deforestation, according to new 3D forest mapping

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Sep 2010

Hunting threatens the other Amazon: where harpy eagles are common and jaguars easy to spot, an interview with Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2010

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

Jeremy Hance 1 Mar 2010

Guyana to increase oversight of gold mining under deal to save forests with Norway

Jeremy Hance 21 Dec 2009

High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2009

Crowned sifaka population on the verge of local extinction: dispatch from the field

Josia Razafindramanana 8 Sep 2009

Gold mining threatens world’s most infamous reptile, the Komodo dragon

Jeremy Hance 24 Aug 2009

Biologists warn of rainforest mining threat from Alcoa, Newmont in Suriname

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2009

Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

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