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Colonization program remains important driver of deforestation in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jan 2012

As Amazon deforestation falls, food production rises

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jan 2012

Ecuador makes $116 million to not drill for oil in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2012

The year in review for rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2011

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011

Jeremy Hance, Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2011

Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

Peru’s Cocha Cashu biological station changes management

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2011

Yasuni ITT: the virtues and vices of environmental innovation

Romain Pirard 7 Dec 2011

Brazil passes controversial Forest Code reform environmentalists say will be ‘a disaster’ for the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2011

Amazon rainforest loss in Brazil drops to lowest ever reported

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2011

Deforestation and forest degradation slows in Brazil’s Amazon since August

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2011

Brazil’s Forest Code vote delayed

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2011

Carbon piracy, lack of recognition of indigenous rights undermining REDD in Peru, alleges report

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2011

Ecotourism isn’t bad for wildlife in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2011

Amazon rainforest named as one of seven nature wonders

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2011

Indigenous do not have right to free, prior and informed consultation on Amazon dam, rules Brazilian court

Mongabay.com 9 Nov 2011

Indigenous technicians scour Amazonia to help researchers track wildlife populations

Daniela Hernandez 9 Nov 2011

11 challenges facing 7 billion super-consumers

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2011

Peru’s real test is a 200km pipeline

David Hill 27 Oct 2011

Breakthrough technology enables 3D mapping of rainforests, tree by tree

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2011

Bolivian road project through Amazon reserve canceled

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2011

Isolated indigenous people and tourists collide in Peru park

Jeremy Hance 19 Oct 2011

Soy moratorium in Amazon maintaining its effectiveness

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2011

High gold price triggers rainforest devastation in Peru

Barbara Fraser 11 Oct 2011

Judge: work must halt on monster dam, Belo Monte

Jeremy Hance 29 Sep 2011

Following violent crackdown against protestors, Bolivia puts Amazon road project on ice

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2011

Repeated burning undercuts Amazon rainforest recovery

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2011

Tribal leader to the UN: Indigenous peoples of the Amazon are in danger

Almir Surui Narayamoga Of The Surui Tribe 22 Sep 2011

New map reveals the most biodiverse place on Earth, but already threatened by oil

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2011

Indigenous people blockade river against ‘murderous’ oil company

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2011

Two arrested in connection with murdering Amazon activists

Jeremy Hance 20 Sep 2011

Green Jobs? New program to compensate poor for environmental protection

Karimeh Moukaddem 12 Sep 2011

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