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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

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

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