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Old growth forests are giant carbon sinks, helping offset emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2008

Rare okapi photographed for the first time in Congo park

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2008

Falling palm oil price makes palm biodiesel viable, may offer target for NGOs

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Sep 2008

Malaysia pushes Borneo rainforest logging by deposing tribal leaders

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2008

Ghana becomes first country to sign sustainable timber pact with the E.U.

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2008

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2008

Carbon market may fund dam in Panama that threatens natural reserve

Jeremy Hance 1 Sep 2008

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru’s President Garcia

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

Palm oil producers in Indonesia reject moratorium on forest destruction

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2008

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2008

Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2008

Haze risk returns as fires increase in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 2008

Malaysia targets Africa and the Amazon for oil palm expansion

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2008

Malaysian logging scandal may delay trade negotiations with the E.U.

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2008

New bird species discovered in rainforest of Gabon

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2008

In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2008

Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2008

New tree species discovered in Amazon biodiversity hotspot

Special To Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2008

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2008

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won’t increase significantly for 2008

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2008

Indonesia’s Riau bans destruction of rainforests and peatlands for palm oil

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2008

Smoke from Amazon fires reduces local rainfall

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2008

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2008

Investors seek profit from conserving rainforest biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2008

Google Earth now reveals damage caused by the paper industry

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2008

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2008

“Turtle carbon” could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2008

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

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2008

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