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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

Scientists uncover five new species of ‘toupee’ monkeys in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Sep 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

A paradise being lost: Peru’s most important forests felled for timber, crops, roads, mining

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Aug 2014

NASA: Forest loss leaps in Bolivia, Mekong region

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2014

Stunning high-resolution map reveals secrets of Peru’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jul 2014

Peruvian oil spill sparks concern in indigenous rainforest community

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2014

Short-eared dog? Uncovering the secrets of one of the Amazon’s most mysterious mammals

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

Roads through the rainforest: an overview of South America’s ‘arc of deforestation’

Dr Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2014

Fly and wasp biodiversity in Peru linked to strange defense strategy

Nicholas Barrett 18 Jun 2014

Feather forensics: scientist uses genes to track macaws, aid bird conservation

Elizabeth Devitt 17 Jun 2014

Protecting rainforests could sequester equivalent of a third of global emissions annually

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2014

Oil drilling causes widespread contamination in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2014

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