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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

Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

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

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