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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

Amphibians face mass extinction

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2008

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

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

Aquarium fish trade linked to cocaine, timber smuggling in Brazil

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2008

Woolworths drops contract with APP, activist group remains wary

Jeremy Hance 10 Aug 2008

Reduced impact logging can save 160 m tons of carbon emissions per year

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

1.2 million ha of Congo rainforest certified for sustainable forestry

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

Dell becomes carbon neutral by saving endangered lemurs

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2008

Private equity firm to sell biodiversity offsets from rainforest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2008

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

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

48% of primates threatened with extinction

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2008

Massive gorilla population discovered in the Congo

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2008

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2008

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

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2008

Brazil asks rich countries to fund Amazon conservation

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2008

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2008

Logging company Danzer accused of tax fraud in the Congo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2008

Adaptation to climate change will be difficult for Madagascar

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2008

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

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2008

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