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Pro-poor conservation

Dorothy Stang fought for social equity in the Amazon

Can cattle ranchers and soy farmers save the Amazon?

Globalization could save the Amazon rainforest

Plan to bring lions, elephants to U.S. excludes Africans

Reducing tropical deforestation will help fight global warming

conservation is saving lemurs and helping people in Madagascar

Madagascar’ forests are recovering

Dutch plan restricts biofuels that damage environment

Dutch will demand rainforest-friendly palm oil

Rare mountain gorillas in Uganda on the increase

Cell phones, text-messaging revolutionize conservation approaches

Congo cancels logging contracts

Palm oil doesn’t have to be bad for the environment

Eco-friendly palm oil could help alleviate poverty in Indonesia

Environmentalists and loggers like new Amazon logging law

Britain invests $100M to protect Congo rainforest

Ecuadorian brothers show conservation-based microentrepreneurship possible

Farming in the rainforest can preserve biodiversity, ecological services

Brazil to allow large-scale monitored harvesting of the Amazon

Agriculture modeled on biological systems may better cope with global warming

Human ecological footprint to grow 34% by 2015 finds study

Are Brazil nuts really sustainable?

Amazon Indians use Google Earth, GPS to protect forest home

Avoided deforestation could send $38 billion to third world under global warming pact

Indians are key to rainforest conservation efforts says renowned ethnobotanist

Wood stoves in poor countries worse than expected for global warming

Global Warming Threatens Pollination Timing

China and India show rapid increase in global warming emissions

New tropical timber pact takes aims at illegal logging

Madagascar establishes new park system to protect lemurs, benefit people

Africa looks to build scientific expertise at Nairobi conference

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