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Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2009

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2009

Brazil pledges to restrain emissions growth

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2009

Brazil releases official Amazon deforestation figures for 2009

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2009

Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2009

Google partners with Amazon tribe

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2009

Brazil to support REDD in Copenhagen

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

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

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2009

Brazilian beef giants agree to moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2009

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

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2009

Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2009

Working to save the ‘living dead’ in the Atlantic Forest, an interview with Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2009

Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Sep 2009

Heavy oil pollution remains in Amazon, despite company claiming clean-up is finished

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2009

Social causes of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2009

Oil road transforms indigenous nomadic hunters into commercial poachers in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2009

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009

Activists target Brazil’s largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009
U.S.-based Cargill corporation burns large areas of Amazon rainforest in norther Pará state to prepare for soya plantations in 2003. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace

20% of land deforested in the Brazilian Amazon is regrowing forest

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Sep 2009

Amazon tribes have long fought bloody battles against big oil in Ecuador

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2009

Amazon deforestation to fall 30% in 2009

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

New Amazonian reserve saves over a million acres in Peru

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2009

Photos reveal illegal logging near uncontacted natives in Peru

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2009

Police face murder charges in killing of indigenous protesters in Peru

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2009

Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2009

Amazon stores 10 billion tons of carbon in ‘dead wood’

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2009

Peru to proceed with oil and gas auctions in the Amazon despite indigenous protests

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2009

Amazon deforestation falls in June

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2009

Peru to raise payment to indigenous communities for Amazon forest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2009

Weeks after bloodshed, American oil moves into Peruvian Amazon, putting rainforest, possible archeological site at risk

A Perspectivehambone Littletail (contact) 3 Aug 2009

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