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Brazil moves closer to legitimizing illegal land-grab in the Amazon

Near-record flooding in the Amazon

Peru gets $120m to protect 212,000 sq mi of Amazon rainforest

Howler monkeys poisoned because of misinformed link to yellow fever

Indigenous people serve as guardians of forest carbon, must be involved in climate solutions

New legislation in Brazil opens up road-paving across country, threatening Amazon

Mysterious decline of small mammals in Bolivia may be linked to burning Amazon

Brazil could triple agricultural output without touching the Amazon rainforest

Rainforest soy moratorium shows success in the Brazilian Amazon

Reserves with roads still vital for reducing fires in Brazilian Amazon

Former environment minister Silva honored with prestigious environmental award

Brazil: ‘Soy King’, Environment Minister strike deal on Amazon deforestation

Revolutionary new theory overturns modern meteorology with claim that forests move rain

Amazonian region likely to become savannah due to burning, deforestation

Can carbon credits from REDD compete with palm oil?

Malaysian palm oil targets the Amazon

Will palm oil drive deforestation in the Amazon?

Land rights victory for Amazon Indians in Brazil

Norway emerges as champion of rainforest conservation

37,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed or damaged in 2008

Smallest Andean frog discovered in cloud forests of Peru

85% of the Amazon rainforest may be lost due to global warming

Poison frog diversity linked to the Andes

Drought threatens the Amazon rainforest as a carbon sink

Amazon deforestation drops 70% for Nov 2008-Jan 2009 period

14,000-barrel oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon

Biologists warn of rainforest mining threat from Alcoa, Newmont in Suriname

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

FARC killing Rainforest Indians in Colombia

Beef consumption fuels rainforest destruction

Payments for eco services could save the Amazon

France’s Suez liable for illegal deforestation, “dynamite fishing” in the Amazon rainforest

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