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Mercury fish: gold mining puts downstream communities at risk in Peru

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2015

Video: camera trap catches jaguar hunting peccaries

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2015

Indigenous territories play dual role as homelands and protected areas

Barbara Fraser 22 Jan 2015

A model forest? Regional park balances local needs and conservation

Barbara Fraser 21 Jan 2015

Company chops down rainforest to produce ‘sustainable’ chocolate

John Cannon 20 Jan 2015

No experience necessary: how studying tamarins led to an innovative research organization in the Amazon

Andrew Mann 15 Jan 2015

Amazon gold rush destroying huge swaths of rainforest

John Cannon 14 Jan 2015

Peru’s first environment minister dies at 74

Julian Moll-rocek 7 Jan 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

2014: the year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

Edited Reality: What I Learned from Filming Eaten Alive

Paul Rosolie 22 Dec 2014

Amazonian peatlands store mega carbon

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2014

Indigenous communities ‘among the very few best protectors’ of Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 12 Dec 2014

Initiative to restore 50M acres of degraded Latin American ecosystems by 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2014

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Deforestation jumps in Peru

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2014

Threatened indigenous forests store more than half the Amazon’s carbon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Dec 2014

Developing land without approval of local people ‘a human rights issue of grave concern,’ says new report

Dr Liz Kimbrough 20 Nov 2014

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2014

Field plots offer biased view of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2014

Local people are not the enemy: real conservation from the frontlines

Heather D'angelo 12 Nov 2014

Peru has massive opportunity to avoid emissions from deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2014

‘River wolves’ recover in Peruvian park, but still remain threatened inside and out (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2014

Saving Peru’s sea turtles and marine birds: conservationists and fishermen partner to tackle bycatch

Jeremy Hance 7 Oct 2014

Scientists uncover six potentially new species in Peru, including bizarre aquatic mammal (photos)

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

In the shadows of Machu Picchu, scientists find ‘extinct’ cat-sized mammal

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

4 Ashaninka tribesmen killed by loggers in Peru

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2014

World’s rainforests could be mapped in 3D at high resolution by 2020 for under $250M

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2014

Conservationists use social media to take on Peru’s booming illegal wildlife trade

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Sep 2014

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