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Breakthrough may enable reforestation using mahogany

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2008

UK government: rainforests are weapon against global warming

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2008

Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2008

Exelon signs rainforest conservation deal to help reduce emissions

Mongabay.com 13 Oct 2008

Paraguay extends zero deforestation law

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2008

Argentina bans fishing, trawling in eco-rich area

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2008

Rainforest biodiversity at risk from global warming

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2008

Ecuador’s plan to protect rainforest from oil drilling looks doomed

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2008

Ecuador’s Choco under siege, but hope remains

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2008

Anti-NGO rhetoric in Brazil a response to environmental criticism says environment minister

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2008

Chevron loses attempt to reduce payment in suit by Amazon rainforest natives

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2008

Slowing global economy will reduce Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2008

Forest corridors key to maintaining biodiversity in fragmented landscape

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2008

Good news for amphibians: three new species and one “extinct” frog discovered

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2008

Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2008

‘Snow leopard’ of the Andes is one of the world’s most endangered cats

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Sep 2008

Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

“Punk-rock” monkey and handbags made from recycled trash inspire conservation in Colombia

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Sep 2008

Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2008

Group takes ‘venture capital’ approach to conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Sep 2008

Regrowing the Amazon rainforest will require help from bats and birds

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2008

Carbon market may fund dam in Panama that threatens natural reserve

Jeremy Hance 1 Sep 2008

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru’s President Garcia

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2008

Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2008

The extinction of the baiji a ‘wake-up call’ to conserve vaquita and other cetaceans

Jeremy Hance 25 Aug 2008

Malaysia targets Africa and the Amazon for oil palm expansion

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2008

STRI goes carbon neutral as Panama indigenous community to see carbon payments from forest conservation

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

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