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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

What makes the jaguar the ultimate survivor? New books highlights mega-predator’s remarkable past and precarious future

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2014

Dogs may be responsible for declining mammals in Brazil’s agroforests

Erin Crandall 26 Sep 2014

Diverse, deceptive, declining: orchids threatened by deforestation in South America

Julian Moll-rocek 26 Sep 2014

Reintroduction program ups Mexico’s scarlet macaw population by 34 percent in one year

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Sep 2014

Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Scientists uncover six potentially new species in Peru, including bizarre aquatic mammal (photos)

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

In the shadows of Machu Picchu, scientists find ‘extinct’ cat-sized mammal

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

Drivers in Brazil will intentionally run-down small animals, but only if it is safe

Andrew Mann 24 Sep 2014

Brazil cancels Tapajos dam auction due to indigenous concerns

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

Brazil’s planned Tapajós dams would increase Amazon deforestation by 1M ha

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2014

As Bolivia plans dramatic agro-expansion, forests may pay the price (PART II)

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Sep 2014

Brazil confirms last year’s rise in Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Sep 2014

Illegal tropical deforestation driven globally by “agro-conversion”

John Cannon 11 Sep 2014

Bolivian vice president proposes unprecedented agricultural expansion (PART 1)

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Sep 2014

4 Ashaninka tribesmen killed by loggers in Peru

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2014

Conservationist, indigenous leader killed in plane crash in Colombia

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Sep 2014

World’s rainforests could be mapped in 3D at high resolution by 2020 for under $250M

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2014

Canada, Russia, Brazil lead world in old-growth forest loss

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Sep 2014

Conservationists use social media to take on Peru’s booming illegal wildlife trade

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Sep 2014

Scientists uncover five new species of ‘toupee’ monkeys in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Sep 2014

Authorities stop ‘greatest destroyers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Aug 2014

Saving the Atlantic Forest would cost less than ‘Titanic’

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2014

Where should the roads go? New map offers a solution to the ‘Pandora’s Box of environmental problems’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Aug 2014

Invasion of the lionfish: new research finds the situation may be worse than we thought

Jose Hong 27 Aug 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Norway puts $1.6B into rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2014

When forests aren’t really forests: the high cost of Chile’s tree plantations

Julian Moll-rocek 18 Aug 2014

China and Europe’s outsourcing of soy production impacts the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2014

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