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High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 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

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

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

Brazil asks rich countries to fund Amazon conservation

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2008

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2008

Island biogeography theory doesn’t explain biodiversity changes in forest fragments

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2008

An interview a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2008

Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2008

600 species of mushrooms discovered in Guyana

Jeremy Hance 21 Jul 2008

Implementing a butterfly farm: Iwokrama reserve’s latest sustainable initiative

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2008

Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2008

Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Biofuels, food demand may doom tropical forests

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2008

Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 9 Jul 2008

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2008

Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2008

Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jun 2008

Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2008

EU may mandate certification system for Amazon timber

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2008

Scientists call for mining ban, new protected areas in Suriname

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2008

Rainforests face array of emerging threats

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2008

More than 8% of the Brazilian Amazon is illegally owned

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

Geology, climate links make Guiana Shield region particularly sensitive to change

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2008

Kayapo tribe gets trust fund for Amazon protection

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2008

Heavily-populated Amazon was decimated by old world disease

Jeremy Hance 9 Jun 2008

Guiana Shield forests help preserve biodiversity and climate

Mongabay.com 9 Jun 2008

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