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Bolsonaro vows to fight ‘illegal deforestation’ in Brazil

Article Agency - 5 Aug 2019

The president has previously floated the idea of opening up protected rainforest areas to agriculture, a highly controversial move

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Attacks on Brazil’s ecological paradises threaten biodiversity

Article Pascale Trouillaud - 2 May 2019

Brazil's rich biodiversity is under attack from multiple fronts

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The fate of unique species in Tanzania’s coastal forests hangs in the balance

Article Neil Burgess - 8 Sep 2018

Tanzania faces the challenge of conserving forests in a developing country with a rapidly expanding population.

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Purring monkey and vegetarian piranha among 400 new Amazon species

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Oct 2013

Four years of scientific expeditions have uncovered previously unknown animals and plants in the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Alarm bells ring over activist death toll

Article Jonathan Watts - 19 Jun 2012

A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.

‘UK grocery shoppers are killing Amazon rainforest’

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Jun 2012

Greenpeace says British consumers are unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the Amazon rainforest by buying meat products from Tesco.

World holds its breath as Brazil faces Amazon threat

Analysis Staff Reporter - 24 May 2012

All eyes are fixed on Brazil's president as she considers a forest code that could spell the end of vital parts of the Amazon and other forests.

India’s forest protection laws start getting teeth

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Dec 2010

India's forests have long been at the centre of a development-versus-conservation debate in the rising Asian power.

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