Ethnobotanist honored for contributions to wilderness medicine Ethnobotanist honored for contributions to wilderness medicine mongabay.com August 8, 2007 Renowned ethnobotanist and conservationist Dr. Mark Plotkin of the Amazon Conservation Team…
Set back for AES on rainforest dam project in Panama Set back for AES on rainforest dam project in Panama mongabay.com June 26, 2007 The World Heritage Committee moved to…
Google helps protect Amazon rainforest Google helps protect Amazon rainforest Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 10, 2007 Google is working with an indigenous tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest to…
Amazon tribe blocks major Brazilian highway Amazon tribe blocks major Brazilian highway mongabay.com June 8, 2007 Indigenous Amazonians have blocked a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso…
Since the early 1970s, environmental groups have spent billions of dollars on conservation efforts in the Amazon, but have failed to slow the destruction of its rainforests – the Brazilian…
Unknown tribe found in the Amazon Unknown tribe found in the Amazon mongabay.com June 4, 2007 [updates] An unknown Indian tribe has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest reports the…
Globalization could save the Amazon rainforest An interview with Dr. Daniel Nepstad: Amazon rainforest at a tipping point But globalization could help save it Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 4,…
Mahogany logging threats tribal people, says report Mahogany logging threats tribal people, says report mongabay.com May 30, 2007 Ahead of the CITES meeting in the Hague, a new report alleges…
Plan to bring lions, elephants to U.S. excludes Africans Plan to bring lions, elephants to U.S. excludes Africans mongabay.com editorial May 22, 2007 Writing in the June 2007 Scientific American…
Ancient Amazonian technology could save the world Ancient Amazonian technology could save the world mongabay.com May 17, 2007 Terra preta, the ancient charcoal-based soil used by ancient Amazonians to create…
Biofuels displace indigenous people Biofuels displace indigenous people Justin Bergman Associated Press May 15, 2007 Indigenous people are being pushed off their lands to make way for an expansion of…
Colonialism may have worsened slash-and-burn deforestation in Borneo according to a new study published by a researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Analyzing Dutch archival data, anthropologist Reed L. Wadley…
Brazil to give Amazonian tribes Internet access to fight deforestation Brazil to give Amazonian tribes Internet access to fight deforestation mongabay.com March 30, 2007 Brazil will offer free satellite Internet…
Intellectual property rights reach indigenous communities in the Amazon Intellectual property rights reach indigenous communities in the Amazon By Carolina Bruun, special to mongabay.com March 21, 2007 In an era…
70% of new drugs come from Mother Nature 70% of new drugs come from Mother Nature mongabay.com March 20, 2007 Around 70 percent of all new drugs introduced in the…
Used for centuries as a natural disease prevention and physical stimulant, an Amazonian tree frog has become a symbol of Brazil's fight to benefit the Indigenous from scientific developments based…
Fires are nothing new to the Amazon reports a study published in the journal Biotropica. Analyzing soils in the interior of Guyana, South America, a team of scientists led by…
Pre-Colombian Amazon rainforest not heavily populated suggests new study Pre-Colombian Amazon rainforest not heavily populated mongabay.com March 6, 2007 Much of the Amazon rainforest was not heavily populated by pre-Colombian…
Gold mining in Guyana damages environment, threatens Amerindians Gold mining in Guyana damages environment, threatens Amerindians mongabay.com March 7, 2007 Informal gold mining is causing environmental harm and human rights…
Archeologists find oldest solar observatory in the Americas Archeologists find oldest solar observatory in the Americas Yale University March 1, 2007 Archeologists from Yale and the University of Leicester have…
