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Amazon deforestation jumps in the second half of 2007

55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030

Malaysian timber firm fined for illegal rainforest logging in Guyana

Amazon deforestation surging due to oil, soy prices

Politics and the Amazon

Scientists discover four species of anole lizards in 24 hours in Panama

America’s largest monkey recovering after brush with extinction

Three salamander species discovered in Costa Rica

Nature tourism taking a toll in the Galapagos

Peru to replant 10 million hectares of forest

Brazil bans illegal soy and cattle production in the Amazon rainforest

Migrating frogs fare poorly when habitat altered

U.S. corn subsidies drive Amazon destruction

Controversial dam in the Amazon gets Brazilian go-ahead

Amazon conservation Team wins “Innovation in conservation Award” for path-breaking work with Amazon tribes

A comprehensive look at the use of animals in Brazilian medicine

Amazon deforestation rates drop 20% in 2007

Global warming accelerates destruction of the Amazon

Tropical forests face huge threat from industrial agriculture

Amazon deforestation could be eliminated with carbon priced at $3

Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?

Dutch bank arranges carbon-conservation deal in the Amazon rainforest

Ground-breaking Amazon rainforest imagery will help monitor deforestation

Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans

Large-scale agriculture ‘compromises’ forest’s ability to recover

Only 150 vaquita remain

Physicists join fight to save amphibians from extinction

Whale stranded 1,000 miles up the Amazon river

In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary forest, plantations

Proposed gold mine proves controversial in French Guiana rainforest

New peccary species discovered by embattled Amazon scientist

Amphibian extinction may be worse than thought