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Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2008

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2008

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won’t increase significantly for 2008

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2008

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2008

Biologists attacked in Costa Rica

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2008

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2008

Account of 18th century Amazon adventurer to be published for the first time

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2008

Climate change to hurt Brazil’s farm exports by 2020

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2008

20% of the Brazilian Amazon’s tree species to go extinct

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

Aquarium fish trade linked to cocaine, timber smuggling in Brazil

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2008

Brazil may ban new sugar cane cultivation in the Pantanal

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2008

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2008

New Costa Rica guide offers insight on responsible tourism

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2008

Brazil asks rich countries to fund Amazon conservation

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2008

Bush Administration moves to weaken endangered speices protection

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2008

Researchers discover “artistic” moth in Panama

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2008

An interview a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2008

14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2008

Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2008

Secret power plan would devastate Sarawak’s rainforest with 12 new hydropower plants

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2008

600 species of mushrooms discovered in Guyana

Jeremy Hance 21 Jul 2008

Mangroves are key to healthy fisheries, finds study

Mongabay.com 21 Jul 2008

Implementing a butterfly farm: Iwokrama reserve’s latest sustainable initiative

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2008

Destruction of wetlands worsens global warming

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2008

Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2008

Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Fruit bats frequent clay-licks in the Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2008

Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2008

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