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New tree species discovered in Guyana is rich source of oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Copenhagen and Brazilian Megalomania

Nikolas Kozloff 7 Dec 2009

Eco-label for rainforest products could boost sustainability

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2009

Extinctions on the rise in the Galapagos: fishing and global warming devastating islands’ species

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2009

Brazil could halt Amazon deforestation within a decade

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Dec 2009

Brazil to push for 10% limit on REDD carbon offsets

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2009

World’s smallest orchid discovered in Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

Guyana expedition finds biodiversity trove in area slated for oil and gas development, an interview with Robert Pickles

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2009

No-shows among South American leaders at Amazon summit

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2009

High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela

Mongabay.com 25 Nov 2009

Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2009

Brazil releases official Amazon deforestation figures for 2009

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2009

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

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