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Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2009

How rainforest shamans treat disease

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2009

Norway to give Guyana up to $250M for rainforest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Nov 2009

Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2009

REDD in Colombia: using forests to finance conservation and communities in Colombia’s Choco, a former war zone

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2009

Google partners with Amazon tribe

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2009

Brazil to support REDD in Copenhagen

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2009

Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2009

Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with “their lives”

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2009

Present day tropical plant families survived in warmer, wetter tropics 58 million years ago

Jeremy Hance 18 Oct 2009

Brazilian beef giants agree to moratorium on Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2009

Could agroforestry solve the biodiversity crisis and address poverty?, an interview with Shonil Bhagwat

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2009

Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2009

Working to save the ‘living dead’ in the Atlantic Forest, an interview with Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2009

Brazil may ban sugarcane plantations from the Amazon, Pantanal

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2009

Heavy oil pollution remains in Amazon, despite company claiming clean-up is finished

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2009

Emissions from cerrado destruction in Brazil equal to emissions from Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2009

Social causes of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2009

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

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2009

Brazil to step up efforts to save the cerrado grassland

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2009

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009

Activists target Brazil’s largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009
U.S.-based Cargill corporation burns large areas of Amazon rainforest in norther Pará state to prepare for soya plantations in 2003. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace

20% of land deforested in the Brazilian Amazon is regrowing forest

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Sep 2009

Amazon tribes have long fought bloody battles against big oil in Ecuador

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Sep 2009

Germany to pay Ecuador $650 million to forgo oil drilling, protect rainforest reserve

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2009

Amazon deforestation to fall 30% in 2009

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2009

New Amazonian reserve saves over a million acres in Peru

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2009

Brazil’s ‘Obama’ weighs presidential bid

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2009

Guyana uses aggressive deforestation baseline in its plan to seek carbon payments

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2009

Police face murder charges in killing of indigenous protesters in Peru

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2009

Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2009

Amazon stores 10 billion tons of carbon in ‘dead wood’

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2009

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