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Brazil allocates first funds under plan to save the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2009

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Extinctions on the rise in the Galapagos: fishing and global warming devastating islands’ species

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2009

Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world’s smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2009

Blogging wildlife rangers drive microconservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2009

World’s smallest orchid discovered in Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2009

Rainforest tribe declares ‘peace park’ to defend lands from logging in Sarawak

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

Authorities in Madagascar conduct raids to uncover illegal rosewood

Wildmadagascar.org 24 Nov 2009

India scraps plan to build physics lab in tiger reserve

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2009

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2009

Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2009

Costa Rica proposes to downgrade Las Baulas National Park, threatening leatherback sea turtles

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2009

World’s first video of the elusive and endangered bay cat

Jeremy Hance 5 Nov 2009

Photos: Palm oil threatens Borneo’s rarest cats

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2009

Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2009

Goodbye, snows of Kilimanjaro

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2009

Rosewood traffickers busted in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2009

Crisis averted for now, Peruvian natives will meet with Hunt Oil

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2009

Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2009

New reserve created in Cambodia with REDD in mind

Jeremy Hance 26 Oct 2009

Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with “their lives”

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2009

Kenya’s pain, part two: decades of wildlife decline exacerbated by drought

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2009

Malayan tiger rescued from poacher’s snare proves need for increased enforcement

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2009

Government decree sanctions trafficking of rainforest timber in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2009

Good news for the rarest lemur

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2009

Americans need to be resolute in protecting our last wild places

Jane Danowitz 7 Oct 2009

Could agroforestry solve the biodiversity crisis and address poverty?, an interview with Shonil Bhagwat

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2009

Two of the world’s most endangered (and strangest) primates receive protection from new reserves in China and Vietnam

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2009

Will tropical trees survive climate change?, an interview with Kenneth J. Feeley

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2009

Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2009

Employing dogs to save endangered species and places, an interview with Megan Parker

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2009

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