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Deforestation drops in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, but risks remain: experts

Karla Mendes 31 Jul 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

Massive loss of mammal species in Atlantic Forest since the 1500s

John Cannon 28 Sep 2018

Pleistocene climates help scientists pick out targets for conservation in Brazil’s forests

Mongabay.com 8 May 2018

Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study

John Cannon 5 Feb 2018

Betting on agroforestry in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Ignacio Amigo 3 Nov 2017

Dogs, dung, and DNA: mapping multi-species corridors to conserve threatened carnivores

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Oct 2017
Ilha Bela, the largest sea island in Brazil, and the Atlantic Forest covers 85 percent of its area. Photo by Santiago Marrodan Ciordia.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest increased almost 60 percent in the last year

Ignacio Amigo 5 Jun 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017

62M ha of Latin American forests cleared for agriculture since 2001

Rhett A. Butler 19 May 2015

Newly discovered Brazilian bird may number fewer than 10 individuals

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Mar 2015

Endangered forests shrink as demand for soy rises

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Mar 2015

Scientists reintroduce agoutis in rainforest in city of 12 million

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2014

New endangered bird species discovered in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 4 Dec 2014

Forest fragmentation’s carbon bomb: 736 million tonnes C02 annually

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

Saving the Atlantic Forest would cost less than ‘Titanic’

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2014

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2014

Will yellow fever drive brown howler monkeys to extinction in Argentina?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Apr 2014

Scientists: well-managed forest restoration benefits both biodiversity and people

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 16 Dec 2013

Odd porcupine hugely imperiled by hunting, deforestation

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

Scientists discover new cat species roaming Brazil

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2013

Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinction rates

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2013

Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving the vanishing ecosystems of Paraguay

Dr Liz Kimbrough 12 Aug 2013

On guard: protecting wildlife in a heavily hunted Brazilian forest

Dr Liz Kimbrough 24 Jun 2013

Loss of big fruit-eating birds impacting trees in endangered rainforests

Mongabay.com 31 May 2013

New insect discovered in Brazil, only third known in its bizarre family (photos)

Alexander Holmgren 15 Apr 2013

New species tree-dwelling porcupine discovered in critically threatened Brazilian habitat

Rhett A. Butler 11 Apr 2013

Nest of one of world’s rarest birds discovered for the first time

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2013

Recovery of Atlantic Forest depends on land-use histories

Thomas Handley 10 Dec 2012

Endangered muriqui monkeys in Brazil full of surprises

Elizabeth Devitt 26 Nov 2012

Happy Halloween: nine new species of tree-climbing tarantula discovered

Jeremy Hance 31 Oct 2012

Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2012

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