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Despite financial crunch, donors pledge $100M for rainforest conservation

Peru gets $25M in debt relief to fund rainforest conservation

EU says emissions trading system may fund forest conservation

Indonesia to audit all timber operations to cut illegal logging

Carbon conservation schemes will fail without forest people

UK government: rainforests are weapon against global warming

Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end

Exelon signs rainforest conservation deal to help reduce emissions

Indonesian governors agree to protect Sumatra’s endangered forests

Indigenous people demand greater say in using forests to fight global warming

Forest conservation can fight climate change and poverty

Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and conflict

Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

“Turtle carbon” could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles

7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis

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

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

Brazil asks rich countries to fund Amazon conservation

14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests

Rainforest conservation could offset 500m tons of CO2 emissions at $2/ton

New plan would pay tropical countries for saving forests, regardless of level of threat

Implementing a butterfly farm: Iwokrama reserve’s latest sustainable initiative

Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products

40 arrested in illegal timber raid in the Brazilian Amazon

Brazil to establish huge Amazon preservation fund

Congo pygmies use GPS to map eco-certified timber concession

Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo

Will consumers pay 10% premium for sustainable palm oil?

Greenpeace says carbon fund will save forests and climate

Defaunation, like deforestation, threatens global biodiversity

Carbon market could fund rainforest conservation, fight climate change

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