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Revised Forest Code may cost Brazil climate commitments

Could palm oil help save the Amazon? (2011)

Could palm oil help save the Amazon?

Germany backs out of Yasuni deal

Can Brazil meet deforestation, climate goals and still grow its cattle industry?

Food security in developing world threatened by climate change

Amazon mega-dam gets final approval

Peru to abolish uncontacted tribe’s reserve, says group

Assassinations of environmentalists continue in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation rises

Destruction of Brazil’s most endangered forest, the Mata Atlantica, slows

Amnesty for illegal rainforest loggers moves forward in Brazil

Killing in the name of deforestation: Amazon activist and wife assassinated

Authorities launch stealth operation in Amazon after satellite images reveal deforestation

Brazil’s new cabinet-level post in response to surge in deforestation

Climate change and deforestation pose risk to Amazon rainforest

Uncovering the private lives of Amazon wildlife through camera traps

Brazil confirms big jump in Amazon deforestation

Red rodent shows up at Colombian nature lodge after 113 years on the lam

Under pressure from rising deforestation, Brazil’s IBAMA establishes ‘Zero Deforestation Policy’ in the Amazon

Information leak: Amazon deforestation increases sharply while forest code debated

Violent protests follow approval of massive dam project in Patagonia

ConocoPhillips withdraws from oil exploitation in uncontacted indigenous territory

Brazil’s forest code debate may determine fate of the Amazon rainforest

NASA image reveals extent of deforestation in western Brazil

Controversial Brazilian mega-dam receives investment of $1.4 billion

World’s largest beef company signs Amazon rainforest pact

Protected areas cover 44% of the Brazilian Amazon

Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon

Brazilian authorities levy $1.2B in fines against beef traders linked to deforestation, slave labor

Satellite evidence of deforestation in uncontacted tribe’s territory sparks legal action

Conversion of Brazil’s cerrado slows

Indigenous group claims Ecuadorian government complicit in ‘genocide’

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