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Saving one of the last tropical dry forests, an interview with Edwina von Gal

Brazil approves land tenure law that grants 260,000 sq mi of rainforest to settlers, speculators

Brazilian cattle giant declares moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Amazon deforestation in 2009 declines to lowest on record

Brazil to pay farmers $50/month to plant trees in the Amazon

Photos: treasure trove of new species discovered in Ecuador

Attacking the demand side of deforestation

World Bank revokes loan to Brazilian cattle giant accused of Amazon deforestation

Wal-Mart bans beef illegally produced in the Amazon rainforest

Climate pact must halt deforestation and industrial logging of old-growth forests, exclude carbon credits for forest conservation, say activists

Bill Clinton speaks out for rainforests in Brazil

Brazil’s plan to save the Amazon rainforest

Brazil accounts for 74% of global land area protected since 2003

New rainforest reserve in Congo benefits bonobos and locals

U.S. reauthorizes funding for rainforest conservation

Peru gets $120m to protect 212,000 sq mi of Amazon rainforest

Prince Charles’ new online initiative for rainforests makes media splash

Gabonese environmental activist receives prize for standing up to government, Chinese company

Rainforest conservation gains in U.S. and U.N. climate proposals

Vanishing forest elephants are the Congo’s greatest cultivators

Reserves with roads still vital for reducing fires in Brazilian Amazon

Revolutionary new theory overturns modern meteorology with claim that forests move rain

DR Congo, Indonesia, PNG, Tanzania, Vietnam win REDD funding for forest conservation

Norway emerges as champion of rainforest conservation

37,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed or damaged in 2008

In exchange for marriage certificate Indonesians must donate trees

Indonesia applies for REDD partnership to protect forests

Papua New Guinea creates first nature reserve

Cameroon may liquidate rainforest reserve if conservationists don’t step forward

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

Norway to pay Guyana to save its rainforests

Gore pushes for avoided deforestation to save rainforests during testimony

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