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First-ever photo of jaguar on Barro Colorado Island

Howler monkeys poisoned because of misinformed link to yellow fever

New legislation in Brazil opens up road-paving across country, threatening Amazon

Brazil could triple agricultural output without touching the Amazon rainforest

Rainforest soy moratorium shows success in the Brazilian Amazon

Reserves with roads still vital for reducing fires in Brazilian Amazon

Former environment minister Silva honored with prestigious environmental award

Brazil: ‘Soy King’, Environment Minister strike deal on Amazon deforestation

Amazonian region likely to become savannah due to burning, deforestation

Malaysian palm oil targets the Amazon

Will palm oil drive deforestation in the Amazon?

Mama tree iguanas targeted by hunters as source of traditional medicine in Bolivia

Territorial disputes and conservation

Land rights victory for Amazon Indians in Brazil

37,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed or damaged in 2008

Smallest Andean frog discovered in cloud forests of Peru

Drought threatens the Amazon rainforest as a carbon sink

Amazon deforestation drops 70% for Nov 2008-Jan 2009 period

14,000-barrel oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

FARC killing Rainforest Indians in Colombia

Payments for eco services could save the Amazon

France’s Suez liable for illegal deforestation, “dynamite fishing” in the Amazon rainforest

Jaguar photographed for the first time in Central Mexico

South American fox confronts prey eight times its size

Amazon indian tribe accused of killing and eating farmer

Frogs can be used to predict biodiversity hotspots

Brazil to boost spending on infrastructure to counter economic crisis

Norway to pay Guyana to save its rainforests

Photos of new frogs discovered in Colombia

Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation

Photo: Indigenous leaders form giant human banner to protest Amazon destruction

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