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Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2009

‘Greening’ logging concessions could help save great apes

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Sep 2009

Oil road transforms indigenous nomadic hunters into commercial poachers in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2009

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009

Parks in Sumatra may reduce deforestation in adjacent unprotected areas

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2009

Political infighting in Brazil threatens the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2009

Dirt road converted into artificial island for birds in Eastern Turkey

Jeremy Hance 26 May 2009

New legislation in Brazil opens up road-paving across country, threatening Amazon

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2009

Illegal hunting in Laos takes toll on wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2009

Reserves with roads still vital for reducing fires in Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2009

Brazil to boost spending on infrastructure to counter economic crisis

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Reindeer, a symbol of the holidays, is under increasing threat

Jeremy Hance 26 Dec 2008

Forest elephants learn to avoid roads, behavior may lead to population decline

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2008

Borneo logging road puts rainforest, indigenous communities at risk

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2008

Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2008

Commercial bushmeat trade is devastating wildlife

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2008

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2008

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2008

Forests cover 1/3 of U.S. but are responsible for 2/3 of its water supply

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2008

Roads are a major killer of amphibians, reveals study

Rachel Tompa 29 May 2008

Brazil will forge its own path for developing the Amazon

Mongabay.com 15 May 2008

Brazil’s environmental minister resigns after losing Amazon fight

Mongabay.com 14 May 2008

Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Apr 2008

Asia Pulp & Paper destroying rare Sumatra forest

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2008

Railroad could reduce Amazon deforestation relative to proposed highway

Mongabay.com 24 Mar 2008

Amazon environmentalist gunned down in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Mar 2008

Industry-driven road-building to fuel Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Mar 2008

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

Mongabay.com 29 Feb 2008

Experts: parks effectively protect rainforest in Peru

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2007

NASA images show expansion of logging in Congo rainforest

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2007

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