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Gold mining boom threatens communities in Suriname

Apoorva Joshi 4 Nov 2015

Gold mining explodes in Suriname, puts forests and people at risk

Apoorva Joshi 30 Oct 2015
Map of historic deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 1970

Deforestation declines in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2015

What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 May 2015

Indigenous leaders present plan to gov’t for Suriname’s largest official protected area

John Cannon 13 Mar 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

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

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Oct 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

No longer ‘deaf as a stump’: researchers find turtles chirp, click, meow, cluck

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2014

Emissions from rainforest logging average 16% of those from deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Apr 2014

Scientists discover cocoa frog and 60 other new species in remote Suriname (photos)

Jeremy Hance 11 Oct 2013

Featured video: Home is “slothified” after taking in 200 of these adorable rescued creatures

Phyllis Sena 1 Jul 2013

Deforestation rates for Amazon countries outside Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jun 2013

Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2012

New forest map shows 6% of Amazon deforested between 2000 and 2010

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2012

Jaguar v. sea turtle: when land and marine conservation icons collide

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2012

Photos: 46 new species found in little-explored Amazonian nation

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2012

8 Amazon countries pledge more coordination in rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2011

Cameratraps take global snapshot of declining tropical mammals

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2011

Indigenous peoples in Suriname still wait for land rights

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2011

Masyarakat hutan hujan memiliki hak karbon untuk lahan yang ada

Ditulis Oleh Rhett A. Butler 2 Mar 2010

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

How rainforest shamans treat disease

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2009

Biologists warn of rainforest mining threat from Alcoa, Newmont in Suriname

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2009

Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN

Mongabay.com 19 Feb 2009

Payments for eco services could save the Amazon

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2009

Saving leatherback turtles in South America’s smallest country, Suriname: An interview with Liz McHuron

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2009

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2008

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2008

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

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2008

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