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1.) Brazil to use body-heat sensing technology to find uncontacted Amazon tribes
2.) California joins effort to fight global warming by saving rainforests
3.) IP laws not helping indigenous people protect traditional knowledge (repost)
4.) Brazil OKs $4 billion dam in the Amazon rainforest
5.) Brazilian rancher claims he owns land American nun was killed defending in the Amazon
6.) EU's sustainable biofuels push angers Malaysia, Brazil
7.) Brazil triples endangered species list
8.) Brazil charges 81 with illegal Amazon deforestation
9.) Wal-mart mulling contribution to Brazil's Amazon rainforest fund
10.) Peru's uncontacted Amazon tribes under attack
11.) Breakthrough may enable reforestation using mahogany
12.) Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end
13.) Slowing global economy will reduce Amazon deforestation
14.) Anti-NGO rhetoric in Brazil a response to environmental criticism says environment minister
15.) Forest corridors key to maintaining biodiversity in fragmented landscape
16.) 'Children of the Amazon' looks at cultural loss of Amazon tribe confronted by deforestation
17.) Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest
18.) Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established
19.) Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015
20.) Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest
21.) Regrowing the Amazon rainforest will require help from bats and birds
22.) Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016
23.) Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008
24.) Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable 'urban' society
25.) China's log imports fall 19% in first half of 2008 due to high prices
26.) Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply
27.) Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon
28.) Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands
29.) Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won't increase significantly for 2008
30.) Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon
31.) Climate change to hurt Brazil's farm exports by 2020
32.) 20% of the Brazilian Amazon's tree species to go extinct
33.) Aquarium fish trade linked to cocaine, timber smuggling in Brazil
34.) Brazil may ban new sugar cane cultivation in the Pantanal
35.) Future threats to the Amazon rainforest
36.) Island biogeography theory doesn't explain biodiversity changes in forest fragments
37.) Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging
38.) Destruction of wetlands worsens global warming
39.) Amazon timber industry declares ban on illegal logging
40.) Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward
41.) Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest
42.) 20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas
43.) Good news for reefs: giant coral structure found off Brazil
44.) Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing
45.) Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically
46.) Brazil signs sustainable ethanol deal with Sweden
47.) Brazil seizes cattle illegally grazing on Amazon forest lands
48.) Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products
49.) Biofuel production on abandoned lands could meet 8% of global energy needs
50.) Global Commodities Boom Fuels New Assault on Amazon