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Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and conflict

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2008

Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2008

Group takes ‘venture capital’ approach to conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Sep 2008

Small-scale fisheries are “best hope” for sustainability in developing world

Jeremy Hance 8 Sep 2008

Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008

Mongabay.com 31 Aug 2008

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2008

“Turtle carbon” could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2008

7 steps to solve the global biodiversity crisis

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2008

1.2 million ha of Congo rainforest certified for sustainable forestry

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

Dell becomes carbon neutral by saving endangered lemurs

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2008

Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2008

Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2008

Implementing a butterfly farm: Iwokrama reserve’s latest sustainable initiative

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2008

Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2008

Reforestation a growing, but complicated, initiative

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2008

Kayapo tribe gets trust fund for Amazon protection

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2008

Madagascar signs big carbon deal to fund rainforest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2008

Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2008

Brazil to establish huge Amazon preservation fund

Mongabay.com 29 May 2008

Congo pygmies use GPS to map eco-certified timber concession

Mongabay.com 29 May 2008

Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2008

Brazil will forge its own path for developing the Amazon

Mongabay.com 15 May 2008

Rainforest peoples form alliance to demand payments for forest carbon credits

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2008

Africa’s lions are disappearing

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2008

Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2008

Half the Amazon rainforest will be lost within 20 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Feb 2008

Carbon trading could protect forests, reduce rural poverty

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2008

Reducing deforestation rates 10% could generate $13B in carbon trading under REDD

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2008

Amazon research and conservation cannot ignore social issues

Jeremy Hance 24 Feb 2008

Brazil’s ecosystem payments system offers clues for REDD implementation

Mongabay.com 24 Feb 2008

55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2008

Nature tourism taking a toll in the Galapagos

Mongabay.com 5 Jan 2008

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