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Carbon trading could protect forests, reduce rural poverty

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2008

Reducing deforestation rates 10% could generate $13B in carbon trading under REDD

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2008

Amazon rainfall linked to Atlantic Ocean temperature

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2008

Deforestation a greater threat to the Amazon than global warming

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2008

Amazon research and conservation cannot ignore social issues

Jeremy Hance 24 Feb 2008

Brazil’s ecosystem payments system offers clues for REDD implementation

Mongabay.com 24 Feb 2008

Brazil seeks $1B/yr in donations to save the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2008

Is Guyana’s logging deal in its best interests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Feb 2008

Amazon state launches Zero Extinction Program for endangered species

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2008

Large-scale Amazon deforestation or drying would have dire global consequences

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2008

Ancient Amazon fires linked to human populations

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Feb 2008

Global warming – not el Nino – drove severe Amazon drought in 2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Feb 2008

Fire policy is key to reducing the impact of drought on the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2008

Small Amazon farmers especially vulnerable to climate change

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2008

Amazon riparian zones need to be expanded to protect wildlife finds study

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2008

conservation strategies can mitigate the impact of global warming in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2008

Cheap ranch loans may be driving jump in Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Feb 2008

France blocks controversial rainforest gold mine in French Guiana

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2008

New uakari monkey discovered in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2008

How much would it cost to end Amazon deforestation?

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2008

7000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed in late 2007 says Greenpeace

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2008

Amazon deforestation jumps in the second half of 2007

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2008

55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2008

Malaysian timber firm fined for illegal rainforest logging in Guyana

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2008

New Jersey scraps plan to buy Amazon rainforest timber

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2008

U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2008

Amazon deforestation surging due to oil, soy prices

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2008

Guyana grants 1 million acres of Amazon rainforest to U.S. logging firm

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2008

New York City ends use of Amazon rainforest hardwoods in parks

Rainforest Relief/ecological Internet 8 Jan 2008

Brazil bans illegal soy and cattle production in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2007

U.S. corn subsidies drive Amazon destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Dec 2007

Amazon conservation Team wins “Innovation in conservation Award” for path-breaking work with Amazon tribes

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2007

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