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Rainforest conservation: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2009

Ecuador to be paid to leave oil in the ground

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2009

Brazil establishes 20,000 sq mi of new indigenous reserves in the Amazon

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2009

The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation

Jeremy Hance 22 Dec 2009

Brazil grants deforestation amnesty for farmers and ranchers

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2009

Ecuador’s Rafael Correa: Copenhagen Climate Hero or Environmental Foe?

Nikolas Kozloff 14 Dec 2009

Amazon cattle ranching accounts for half of Brazil’s CO2 emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Dec 2009

Google Earth to monitor deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2009

Brazil allocates first funds under plan to save the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2009

Changing drivers of deforestation provide new opportunities for conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Destruction of old-growth forests looms over climate talks

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2009

Brazil could halt Amazon deforestation within a decade

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2009

Cheap REDD isn’t the best conservation strategy for biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2009

Brazil to push for 10% limit on REDD carbon offsets

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

Guyana expedition finds biodiversity trove in area slated for oil and gas development, an interview with Robert Pickles

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2009

No-shows among South American leaders at Amazon summit

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2009

High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2009

Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

Sarah Monaghan 22 Nov 2009

Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2009

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2009

Brazil pledges to restrain emissions growth

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2009

Brazil releases official Amazon deforestation figures for 2009

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2009

Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2009

How rainforest shamans treat disease

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2009

Non-Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil producers pledge not to develop peatlands for plantations

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2009

Google partners with Amazon tribe

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2009

Brazil to support REDD in Copenhagen

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2009

Crisis averted for now, Peruvian natives will meet with Hunt Oil

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2009

Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2009

Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with “their lives”

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2009

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