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Brazil’s deforestation at record low from 2011-2012

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2012

Photos: Chinese leopard wins camera trap contest

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

Oil drilling approved for national park in Belize

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 20 Nov 2012

Colombia gets world’s first VCS validated and verified REDD project on collective lands

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2012

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2012

New species of bioluminescent cockroach possibly already extinct by volcanic eruption

Michael Rudolph 14 Nov 2012

Happy Halloween: nine new species of tree-climbing tarantula discovered

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2012

After seven year search, scientists film cryptic predator in Minas Gerais

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2012

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 22 Oct 2012

Most controversial aspects of Brazil’s new Forest Code vetoed as legislation signed into law

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2012

Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry for climate change programs

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2012

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

David Hill 15 Oct 2012

Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2012

90 percent of oil palm plantations came at expense of forest in Kalimantan

Jeremy Hance 8 Oct 2012

Photos: new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2012

Jaguar conservation gets a boost in North and Central America

Dr Liz Kimbrough 27 Sep 2012

Penguins face a slippery future

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2012

Amazon deforestation jumps in August

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2012

Cute picture of the day: armadillo carrying baby

Jeremy Hance 19 Sep 2012

Wax palm can be sustainably harvested

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Rare birds abound in Brazil’s Acre state

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Buffer zones key to survival of maned wolf

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Amazon deforestation could trigger drop in rainfall across South America

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Sep 2012

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

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2012

Bolivia should prioritize cattle ranching, law enforcement in deforestation fight

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2012

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

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2012

Emissions from Amazon deforestation in Brazil fall 57% since 2004

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2012

Unidentified poodle moth takes Internet by storm

Jeremy Hance 29 Aug 2012

Brazil’s controversial Belo Monte back on track after court decision overruled

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2012

Private reserve safeguards newly discovered frogs in Ecuadorian cloud forest

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2012

Construction of controversial Belo Monte dam stopped

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2012

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