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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

Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 9 Jul 2008

Volunteering with Leatherback Sea Turtles in Galibi, Suriname

Jeremy Hance 8 Jul 2008

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2008

Good news for reefs: giant coral structure found off Brazil

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2008

Parks help people to the detriment of biodiversity, suggests study

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2008

Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2008

Brazil signs sustainable ethanol deal with Sweden

Mongabay.com 27 Jun 2008

Brazil seizes cattle illegally grazing on Amazon forest lands

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2008

Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2008

Rainforests face array of emerging threats

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2008

More than 8% of the Brazilian Amazon is illegally owned

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

Geology, climate links make Guiana Shield region particularly sensitive to change

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

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