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

Mongabay.com 4 Mar 2009

Climate change could devastate lizards in the tropics

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2009

Papua New Guinea creates first nature reserve

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2009

Tigers continue killing rampage in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2009

Cameroon may liquidate rainforest reserve if conservationists don’t step forward

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2009

14,000-barrel oil spill in the Ecuadorean Amazon

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2009

Deforestation blamed for tiger maulings in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2009

Whole Foods bans unsustainable palm oil from its products

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Feb 2009

YouTube videos may be imperiling cuddly primate

Jeremy Hance 24 Feb 2009

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

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2009

ACCOR hotel chain linked to destructive logging in Borneo?

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2009

24% of Papua New Guinea’s rainforest destroyed or degraded by logging in 30 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2009

New fire record for Borneo, Sumatra shows dramatic increase in rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2009

Indonesia confirms that peatlands will be converted for plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2009

Rainforests absorb 20% of emissions annually

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2009

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2009

FARC killing Rainforest Indians in Colombia

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2009

Burning rainforests, melting tundra could accelerate global warming well beyond current projections

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2009

Beef consumption fuels rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Feb 2009

Pricing emissions from farming, logging could shift land use towards conservation

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2009

80% of agricultural expansion since 1980 came at expense of forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Feb 2009

Payments for eco services could save the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2009

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

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2009

Global warming may drive the Amazon rainforest toward seasonal forests rather than savanna

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2009

Amazon indian tribe accused of killing and eating farmer

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2009

Kerry, Lugar: U.S. has opportunity to lead on climate, forest conservation

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2009

Salamander populations collapse in Central America

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2009

New model uses carbon credits, sustainable palm oil to save Indonesia’s rainforests

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Tropical forest tree is source of new mosquito repellent as effective as DEET

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Frogs can be used to predict biodiversity hotspots

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Norway to pay Guyana to save its rainforests

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Monstrous prehistoric snake provides glimpse of warmer tropical forests

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2009

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