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Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics

Deforestation from gold mining in Peru continues, despite gov’t crackdowns

Identifying the world’s top biodiversity investment returns

Indigenous groups win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court

Colombian shamans want to restore traditional power via national network

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon’s Aripuanã basin

Father and son butt heads in decades-long battle over bird tourism site

In Colombia, deforestation gangs run rampant

Guyana’s road to Brazil presents opportunity and challenge

Canopy bridges keep rainforest animals connected over gas pipeline

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Landless Workers Movement protest occupies farms of Brazil’s elite

Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses

Going under: mangrove restoration in low-lying Guyana a vital need, say experts

Soy King Blairo Maggi wields power over Amazon’s fate, say critics

Temer signs law that could see millions of acres lost in the Amazon

Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions

Is Brazil’s Forest Code failing to reduce deforestation?

Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted

International illegal logging conference touches on myriad issues

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Is intensification of beef production really a solution to Amazonian deforestation?

Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon

Illegal logging and hunting threaten Yasuní isolated indigenous groups

New highway brings deforestation near two Colombian national parks

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

If Brazil okays Terra Legal changes, land grabbers win, Amazon loses, say environmentalists

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Norway bans government purchasing of palm oil biofuel

30 years of protecting the mysterious Okapi

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