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Exelon signs rainforest conservation deal to help reduce emissions

Paraguay extends zero deforestation law

Argentina bans fishing, trawling in eco-rich area

Ecuador’s plan to protect rainforest from oil drilling looks doomed

Ecuador’s Choco under siege, but hope remains

Anti-NGO rhetoric in Brazil a response to environmental criticism says environment minister

Chevron loses attempt to reduce payment in suit by Amazon rainforest natives

Slowing global economy will reduce Amazon deforestation

Forest corridors key to maintaining biodiversity in fragmented landscape

Good news for amphibians: three new species and one “extinct” frog discovered

Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest

‘Snow leopard’ of the Andes is one of the world’s most endangered cats

Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established

Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015

“Punk-rock” monkey and handbags made from recycled trash inspire conservation in Colombia

Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest

Group takes ‘venture capital’ approach to conservation

Regrowing the Amazon rainforest will require help from bats and birds

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru’s President Garcia

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Malaysia targets Africa and the Amazon for oil palm expansion

In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon

Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply

Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon

Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won’t increase significantly for 2008

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon

Account of 18th century Amazon adventurer to be published for the first time

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