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Brazil can eliminate deforestation by 2020, says governor of giant Amazon state

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Apr 2012

Judge suspends Brazilian dam that would flood sacred waterfalls

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2012

Researchers launch tool that predicts Amazon deforestation a year before it happens

Mongabay.com 30 Mar 2012

Indigenous groups fight for recognition and illumination in Peru

Patrick Le Flufy 26 Mar 2012

Greenpeace calls for zero deforestation globally by 2020

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2012

Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view from the ground

Katy Ashe 15 Mar 2012

Amazon plant yields miracle cure for dental pain

Jeremy Hance 14 Mar 2012

Surging demand for vegetable oil drives rainforest destruction

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2012

Climate change could increase fires, logging, and hunting in rainforests

Jeremy Hance 13 Mar 2012

International Labor Organization raps Brazil over monster dam

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

Rally calls on Brazil President to veto new forest code

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

Brazil delays Forest Code vote

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2012

Innovative program seeks to safeguard Peruvian Amazon from impacts of Inter-Oceanic Highway

Ryan King 6 Mar 2012

World’s most toxic frog gets new reserve

Jeremy Hance 5 Mar 2012

Tourism for biodiversity in Tambopata

Ryan King 27 Feb 2012

Humans drove rainforest into savannah in ancient Africa

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2012

Majority of protected tropical forests “empty” due to hunting

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2012

New rainforest and indigenous reserve established in Peru

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2012

Guyanese tribe maps Connecticut-sized rainforest for land rights

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2012

Fungus from the Amazon devours plastic

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2012

Photo of the day: super-abundance of life found in Amazon park

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2012

Group releases close-up photos of ‘uncontacted’ tribe in Peru

Jeremy Hance 1 Feb 2012

New meteorological theory argues that the world’s forests are rainmakers

Jeremy Hance 1 Feb 2012

Brazilian mining company connected to Belo Monte dam voted worst corporation

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2012

Saving the world’s biggest river otter

Jeremy Hance 30 Jan 2012

Big trees, like the old-growth forests they inhabit, are declining globally

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2012

Photo of the Day: Critically Endangered brown spider monkey discovered in park

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2012

Photos: 46 new species found in little-explored Amazonian nation

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2012

Brazil begins preliminary damming of Xingu River as protests continue

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2012

Geology has split the Amazon into two distinct forests

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2012

Deforestation, climate change threaten the ecological resilience of the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jan 2012

Peruvian smugglers traffic illegal rainforest timber from Brazil to America

Jeremy Hance 11 Jan 2012

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