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Brazil may ban new sugar cane cultivation in the Pantanal

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

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

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

Brazil asks rich countries to fund Amazon conservation

An interview a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging

600 species of mushrooms discovered in Guyana

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

Destruction of wetlands worsens global warming

Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging

Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward

Fruit bats frequent clay-licks in the Amazon rainforest

Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought

Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest

Volunteering with Leatherback Sea Turtles in Galibi, Suriname

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

Good news for reefs: giant coral structure found off Brazil

Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing

Brazil signs sustainable ethanol deal with Sweden

Brazil seizes cattle illegally grazing on Amazon forest lands

Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products

EU may mandate certification system for Amazon timber

Scientists call for mining ban, new protected areas in Suriname

Rainforests face array of emerging threats

More than 8% of the Brazilian Amazon is illegally owned

Geology, climate links make Guiana Shield region particularly sensitive to change

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Kayapo tribe gets trust fund for Amazon protection

Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants

Argentina’s primates under threat from agriculture

Dung beetles persist in long-term forest fragments but may suffer from hunting of large animals

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