Brazil to step up efforts to save the cerrado grassland
Brazil will try to reduce deforestation of the cerrado, a wooded grassland ecosystem in Brazil that is being destroyed twice as fast as the Amazon rainforest, according to the country's…
Painted Dog population falls 99%, but community efforts could save species
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40% of Australia is undisturbed wilderness
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Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests
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Some grasslands resilient against climate change, according to 13 year study
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REDD could trigger bias in conservation funding towards carbon-rich ecosystems
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Marauding kangaroos may drive extinction of earless dragons in Australia
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Deforestation a greater threat to the Amazon than global warming
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Land-clearing fires send smoke across Argentina, Paraguay
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U.S. grazing lands at risk due to rising CO2 levels
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Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado
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Oceans
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Amazon conservation
- Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs
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- Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award
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Land rights and extractives
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- Podcast: Indigenous land rights and the global push for land privatization
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Endangered environmentalists
- Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award
- Indonesian fishers opposed to dredging project hit by ‘criminalization’ bid
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Indonesias forest guardians
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- Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time
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