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Amazon soy ban seems to be effective in reducing explicit deforestation

Bats eat as many insects as birds

Investing to save rainforests

Global warming solutions are harming indigenous people, says U.N.

Regrowing the rainforest

Asia Pulp & Paper destroying rare Sumatra forest

Private equity firm buys rights to ecosystem services of Guyana rainforest

Fire monitoring by satellite becomes key conservation tool

FSC has ‘failed the world’s forests’ say critics

Railroad could reduce Amazon deforestation relative to proposed highway

Papua New Guinea to ban log exports by 2010

Rwanda launches reforestation project to protect chimps, drive ecotourism

Merrill Lynch invests $9M in rainforest conservation, expects profit

Industry-driven road-building to fuel Amazon deforestation

Cellulosic energy may trigger dramatic collapse in the Amazon

Skoll Foundation puts $1M toward indigenous groups, conservation in the Amazon

Deforestation causes snake invasion in the Amazon

Madagascar’s deforestation rate drops 8-fold in parks

Emissions from deforestation offset by increased tree growth in the Amazon

New rule grants rainforest to mining firms in Indonesia for $80/acre

Why Europe torpedoed the REDD forests-for-carbon credits initiative

Fragmentation puts Mexican howlers at risk

Belize’s world famous coral reefs and rainforests at risk

Screaming elephant-cousin threatened by logging

‘CAT scan’ shows Hawaiian forests invaded by alien species

How accurate is long-term climatology data from the Amazon?

Advice for your first visit to the rainforest

China’s tropical rainforests decline 67% in 30 years

China’s wood industry fueled by illegal log imports from rainforest countries

Saving forgotten species: An interview with Carly Waterman, Program Coordinator of EDGE

Half the Amazon rainforest will be lost within 20 years

Greenhouse gas emissions have already caused the Amazon to dry

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