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Amazon deforestation rates drop 20% in 2007

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2007

Global warming accelerates destruction of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2007

Amazon deforestation could be eliminated with carbon priced at $3

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Dec 2007

Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2007

Dutch bank arranges carbon-conservation deal in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2007

Ground-breaking Amazon rainforest imagery will help monitor deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2007

Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2007

In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary forest, plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2007

Proposed gold mine proves controversial in French Guiana rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2007

New peccary species discovered by embattled Amazon scientist

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2007

Amphibian extinction may be worse than thought

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2007

2007 Amazon fires among worst ever

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2007

Amazon plant diversity still a mystery

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2007

Brazil to search for oil in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2007

Uncontacted Amazon tribe spotted by plane in Peru

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2007
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Is Amazon conservation worth more than clearing for cattle or soy?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2007

Amazon rainforest burning “worst” in memory

October 16 16 Oct 2007

South American development plan could destroy the Amazon

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2007

Rainforest tribe establishes massive sustainable-use reserve

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2007

Fires rage in Amazon rainforest park

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Oct 2007

China urged to join sustainable soy efforts in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2007

Scientists demand Brazil cease Amazon colonization project

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2007

Land reform agency sanctions logging in Amazon rainforest park

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2007

Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Aug 2007

New flycatcher bird species discovered in Peru

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2007

Amazon deforestation in Brazil falls 29% for 2007

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2007

Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2007

Dr. Marc Van Roosmalen, discover of unknown monkey species, freed in Brazil

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2007

Ethnobotanist honored for contributions to wilderness medicine

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2007

Primatologist freed but questions remain for Brazil after “attack on science”

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2007

Scientists demand release of renowned monkey discoverer in Brazil

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2007

Toll road could raise money for Amazon conservation

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2007

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