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UK government: rainforests are weapon against global warming

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2008

Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2008

Ecuador’s plan to protect rainforest from oil drilling looks doomed

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2008

Ecuador’s Choco under siege, but hope remains

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2008

Anti-NGO rhetoric in Brazil a response to environmental criticism says environment minister

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2008

Indigenous people demand greater say in using forests to fight global warming

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2008

Chevron loses attempt to reduce payment in suit by Amazon rainforest natives

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2008

Slowing global economy will reduce Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2008

Forest corridors key to maintaining biodiversity in fragmented landscape

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2008

‘Children of the Amazon’ looks at cultural loss of Amazon tribe confronted by deforestation

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2008

Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2008

Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and conflict

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2008

Scientists discover 120 million year-old ant in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2008

Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2008

Regrowing the Amazon rainforest will require help from bats and birds

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Commercial bushmeat trade is devastating wildlife

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2008

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru’s President Garcia

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2008

In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

New tree species discovered in Amazon biodiversity hotspot

Special To Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2008

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won’t increase significantly for 2008

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2008

Smoke from Amazon fires reduces local rainfall

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2008

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

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