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108 million ha of Amazon rainforest up for oil and gas exploration, development

Norway payments to Brazil for reducing deforestation reach $670 million

Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Brazil’s deforestation at record low from 2011-2012

Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million

Amazon deforestation tracking higher in Brazil

Featured video: on-the-ground look at Brazil’s fight against deforestation

Most controversial aspects of Brazil’s new Forest Code vetoed as legislation signed into law

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

Brazil forms special environmental security force to combat spike in deforestation

Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon

Illegal logging worth $30-100B annually

Amazon deforestation jumps in August

Pictures: Bolivian park may have the world’s highest biodiversity

Bolivia should prioritize cattle ranching, law enforcement in deforestation fight

Survivors say gold miners in helicopter massacred village of 80 in Venezuelan Amazon

Emissions from Amazon deforestation in Brazil fall 57% since 2004

Independent assessment confirms drop in Amazon deforestation for 2011-2012

Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazilian court, appeal likely but difficult

Evidence of ‘isolated’ indigenous people found in Peru where priest is pushing highway

Pig iron producers sign zero deforestation pledge after Greenpeace campaign

Brazil’s deforestation rate still on decline in 2012?

Human rights court favors indigenous tribe over Ecuadorian government in oil battle

Guyana rainforests secure trust fund

Brazil decree opens tribal lands to mining, dams in ‘national interest’

165,000 sq km of Colombian rainforest mapped in stunning detail using lasers, satellites

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Brazil cripples illegal gold mining operations in indigenous territory

Scientists slam Telegraph blogger’s claims that climate change will be good for the Amazon

Still time to save most species in the Brazilian Amazon

Indigenous tribes end occupation of Belo Monte

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