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Brazilian government silent as deforestation rises in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2014

Greenpeace investigation prompts Belgian authorities to seize timber shipment

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2014

Surprising reasons to be optimistic about saving forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2014

New tapir? Scientists dispute biological discovery of the century

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2014

Local people are not the enemy: real conservation from the frontlines

Heather D'angelo 12 Nov 2014

New birds arise due to emigration not separation

Jordanna Dulaney 11 Nov 2014

Peru has massive opportunity to avoid emissions from deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2014

New laws may turn Brazil’s forests into mines

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2014

Brazilian tribes demarcate territory in bid to block dams

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Nov 2014

Reducing tax evasion could help save the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2014

Facing severe drought, ‘war effort’ needed to save the Amazon, says scientist

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2014

De-protection of Protected Areas ramps up in Brazil, ‘compromises the capacity’ of ecosystems

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 31 Oct 2014

Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

Amazon rainforest is getting drier, confirms another study

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2014

Tigers vs. diamonds: India’s protected areas rampantly downgraded to make room for people, industry

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 29 Oct 2014

How protected are they? Report finds world’s Protected Areas may relax, shrink, even completely disappear

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 28 Oct 2014

Conservationists propose Dracula Reserve in Ecuador

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Oct 2014

Beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products from 8 countries responsible for 1/3 of forest destruction

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Brazil declares new protected area larger than Delaware

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Oct 2014

Gold mining expanding rapidly along Guiana Shield, threatening forests, water, wildlife

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Oct 2014

Colombia reports drop in deforestation

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2014

Daring activists use high-tech to track illegal logging trucks in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2014

As Amazon deforestation falls, small farmers play bigger role in forest clearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2014

‘River wolves’ recover in Peruvian park, but still remain threatened inside and out (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2014

‘A remarkable conservation achievement’: Ecuador reserve expands as forest disappears

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Oct 2014

Forest fragmentation’s carbon bomb: 736 million tonnes C02 annually

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

Brazil unlikely to sustain gains in reducing deforestation without new incentives for ranchers, says study

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2014

An impossible balancing act? Forests benefit from isolation, but at cost to local communities

Anna Ikarashi 7 Oct 2014

Saving Peru’s sea turtles and marine birds: conservationists and fishermen partner to tackle bycatch

Jeremy Hance 7 Oct 2014

Use of mammals still prevalent in Brazil’s Conservation Units

Annam Raza 6 Oct 2014

Balu Wala, or the Kuna ‘good life’: how one indigenous tribe is passing on its traditions (photos)

Ruxandra Guidi 3 Oct 2014

Outcompeted: Species competition may result in geographic isolation

Natalie Millar 3 Oct 2014

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