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High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

Account of 18th century Amazon adventurer to be published for the first time

7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis

Climate change to hurt Brazil’s farm exports by 2020

20% of the Brazilian Amazon’s tree species to go extinct

Aquarium fish trade linked to cocaine, timber smuggling in Brazil

Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Brazil asks rich countries to fund Amazon conservation

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Island biogeography theory doesn’t explain biodiversity changes in forest fragments

An interview a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging

Leaf-cutter ants test theories about the Amazon’s biodiversity

Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests

600 species of mushrooms discovered in Guyana

Implementing a butterfly farm: Iwokrama reserve’s latest sustainable initiative

Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging

Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward

Fruit bats frequent clay-licks in the Amazon rainforest

Biofuels, food demand may doom tropical forests

Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing

Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically

Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products

EU may mandate certification system for Amazon timber

Scientists call for mining ban, new protected areas in Suriname

Rainforests face array of emerging threats

More than 8% of the Brazilian Amazon is illegally owned

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