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12/30/01 -- Farm helps save South America's largest monkey

12/29/01 -- The biotech race in the Amazon, a new El Dorado

12/28/01 -- Brazil rain, mudslides leave 52 dead, more missing

12/27/01 -- Brazil rains death toll hits 46 and still counting

12/23/01 -- Brazil Sees Promise in Jungle Plants, but Tribes See Peril

12/22/01 -- Brazilian prosecutors prepare case in Chico Mendes murder

12/21/01 -- Indian who denounced loggers is murdered in ambush in Mato Grosso

12/19/01 -- Mahogany extraction may get worse due to new governmental rules in Brazil

12/17/01 -- Brazil completes DNA mapping of Amazon bacterium

12/16/01 -- Chico Mendes case is re-opened

12/14/01 -- Fires rage across Amazonian ecological sanctuary

12/13/01 -- UNESCO adds sites to heritage list, two more said in danger

12/12/01 -- Brazil's Indians take path toward medicinal patents

12/06/01 -- Greenpeace Welcomes 'Historic' Ban on Mahogany Logging

12/06/01 -- Greenpeace Investigations in Amazon Leads to Historic Decision by Brazilian Government

12/06/01 -- Brazil Shuts Down Illegal Mahogany Trade

12/06/01 -- Amazon: Brazil Sharply Curtails Mahogany Logging

11/20/01 -- More than 40 percent of the Brazilian Amazon protected under new plan

11/20/01 -- Illegal logging could destroy Amazon in 50 years: Greenpeace

11/20/01 -- Groups Seek to Protect Brazil Amazon

11/19/01 -- Protect Amazon Rivers, Forest and Activists / Brazil

11/19/01 -- Belem discusses lumber certification

11/18/01 -- Illegally Cut Mahogany from Brazil Finds Home in Furniture

11/17/01 -- 38 million animals stolen annually from Brazilian forests

11/13/01 -- Wildlife smuggling rises in Brazil

11/12/01 -- 38 Million Animals a Year Stolen From Brazil

11/07/01 -- Iowa State U. researchers find deforestation might be worse than predicted

11/05/01 -- Amazon: Feds Bust Illegal Logging Operations

11/02/01 -- Forestry Code Debate: The Amazon At Stake

11/02/01 -- Record Seizure of Mahogany in Para

11/01/01 -- Brazil, Greenpeace Raid Illegal Mahogany Operation

10/31/01 -- Satellites Aid Sustainable Land Use in Amazon

10/31/01 -- Illegal Mahogany Raid Seizes $11 million

10/31/01 -- Brazil Cracks Down on Trade in "Green Gold"

10/31/01 -- Amazon Mahogany Criminals Busted

10/30/01 -- Dam Affected People Occupy Tractebel Headquarters in Rio

10/27/01 -- Still lots of Amazon rain forest is left to destroy

10/25/01 -- New Report Details Global Trade in Illegal Amazon Mahogany

10/25/01 -- Greenpeace activists board ship to protest rainforest destruction

10/24/01 -- Brazil proposes swapping foreign debt for environmental protections

10/19/01 -- Fighting deforestation of the rainforest

10/19/01 -- Deni Indians Win Legal Right to Their Amazon Land

10/18/01 -- Spain Imports Illegally Logged Wood from the Amazon

10/17/01 -- Planting for the future

10/16/01 -- Spy in the sky to protect rainforest

10/16/01 -- AMAZON: One tree at a time

10/12/01 -- Deforested areas may face severe drought in coming decades

10/12/01 -- Amazon Populist's Killing Exposes Bitter Conflicts

10/11/01 -- Leader of Greenpeace Amazon Campaign Threatened with Death

10/11/01 -- Amazon: Greenpeace Logging Activist Receives Death Threat

10/10/01 -- Death Threat Will Not Deter Greenpeace Campaign to Protect the Amazon

10/10/01 -- Brazil to manage protected areas in fighting deforestation

10/09/01 -- Spy in the sky to protect rainforest

09/23/01 -- Bill in Brazil Would Allow More of Jungle to Be Razed

09/21/01 -- Feathers fly in UK parrot row

09/21/01 -- Brazil Coalition for Forest Certification

09/11/01 -- Amazon Indians Cut Boundary in Forest to Keep Illegal Loggers Out of Their Land

09/10/01 -- Brazil: barracks planned on Indian land

09/07/01 -- Brazilian explorer fears for Indians

09/05/01 -- Developers Win First Round in Brazil Amazon Battle

09/05/01 -- President could veto Amazon forest code as environmentalists protest

09/05/01 -- Amazon Day ushers in new threat to forests

09/04/01 -- Another Amazon Activist Murdered

09/04/01 -- Radio programme for the Amazon

09/04/01 -- Brazilians protest over Amazon bill

08/31/01 -- Brazilian Amazon: environmental awareness higher in deforested areas

08/28/01 -- Brazilians hope to turn plants into profits

08/28/01 -- Brazil environmentalists face new battle on Amazon

08/27/01 -- Brazilians plan to turn rainforest into money

08/25/01 -- Forest Fire Rages in Brazil

08/25/01 -- As last pioneer writes his memoirs, Brazil's Indians face new threat

08/24/01 -- Partnership guarantees revitalization of Pedra Branca State Park in Rio de Janeiro

08/20/01 -- Highways to hell: is the Amazon rainforest finished?

08/17/01 -- The quest for "greener" cars takes Daimler Chryslerto the rain forest

08/17/01 -- Japanese held in Brazil over biopiracy in Amazon forest

08/17/01 -- Fire destroys 3,300 acres of forest in Brazil

08/14/01 -- Venezuela's deal to help ease power shortage in Brazil sparks controversy

08/14/01 -- Castro watches as Venezuela, Brazil open power link

08/10/01 -- Environmentalists Praise Brazil

08/09/01 -- Environmentalists praise government decision to protect 2.4 million hectares (5.9 million acres) of Amazon forest

08/07/01 -- Greenpeace Welcomes Brazilian Government Decision to Increase Protected Areas in the Amazon But Urges for Implementation

08/07/01 -- Brazil-Fire Destroys 18,000 Hectares of Brazilian Rainforest

08/06/01 -- Fires sweep Brazil nature sanctuary, Indian reservation

08/06/01 -- Electricity to flow soon from Venezuela to Brazil

08/03/01 -- Brazil reviewing big Amazon hydroelectric plant

08/02/01 -- Environmentally correct dance party set for Amazon

08/01/01 -- Protesters urge Blair to curb wood imports

08/01/01 -- Brazil environmentalists breach Blair security

08/01/01 -- Blair Faces Rain Forest Protestors in Brazil

08/01/01 -- Blair faces rain forest protesters in Brazil

07/31/01 -- Brazil Activists Approach Blair

07/29/01 -- Primates Barely Hanging On

07/24/01 -- Rain puts out fire in Brazil's oldest national park

07/20/01 -- Forest fire rages in Brazil's oldest national park

07/20/01 -- Fire continues to ravage Brazil's oldest national park

07/20/01 -- Brazil's Amazon Rain Forest Fauna Depleted by AnimalTraffickers

07/19/01 -- Forest fire rages out of control in Brazilian park

07/19/01 -- Forest fire rages out of control in Brazilian park

06/29/01 -- Rainforests could soon pass 'point of no return'

06/28/01 -- Deforestation Could Push Amazon Rainforest To Its End

06/27/01 -- Amazon Rainforest Could Be Unsustainable Within A Decade

06/27/01 -- Amazon Rainforest Approaching the Point of No Return

06/26/01 -- Loss of Amazon Rain Forest May Come Sooner Than Expected

06/26/01 -- Amazon Rainforest Could be Unsustainable Within a Decade

06/26/01 -- Amazon Rain Forest May Reach Point of No Return Within 10Years

06/25/01 -- Amazon forest 'could vanish fast'

06/22/01 -- Greenpeace Confronts Hong Kong Firm to Stop Fueling Forest Crime

06/19/01 -- Amazon Indian chief seeks cash to protect rainforest

06/19/01 -- Feather growth a factor in Amazon bird extinction

06/19/01 -- Amazon Chief Says Big Firms Threaten Forests

06/15/01 -- Deforestation area is equivalent to size of Bahia state

06/13/01 -- Inside story: Road to oblivion: The Amazon jungle has long been ravaged by developers

06/09/01 -- Rain Forest Diminishing in Brazil's Amazonia

06/09/01 -- Brazil's Tocantins state readies for transformation

06/08/01 -- WWF-Brazil urges: collect stamps, not parrots

06/07/01 -- President promises Indian leader to help protect Amazon forest

06/06/01 -- Poll: Saving Forest Is Top Priority in Amazon

05/30/01 -- Brazil's Indigenous People Resist Large River Modifications

05/24/01 -- Newest corporate recruits: carbon-trapping trees

05/20/01 -- Modern world more a blessing than curse in this Brazilian outback

05/18/01 -- Car giant backs Brazil conservation

05/17/01 -- GM Gives $10 Million for Endangered Brazil Forest

05/17/01 -- General Motors preserves 30,000 acres of rain forest

05/16/01 -- Trees toppled; Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon during 2000 hit the highest levels since 1995

05/16/01 -- Environment-Brazil: New Data Shows Upsurge in Amazon Destruction

05/16/01 -- Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Shrinking Fast-Bold Policy Response Needed

05/15/01 -- Deforestation soaring in Amazon rain forest region

05/15/01 -- Amazon: Deforestation on the Rise Again

05/15/01 -- Amazon destruction surges

05/15/01 -- Amazon Deforestation Up 15 Percent

05/11/01 -- Illegal Timber Confiscated by Brazilian Environmental Agency Disappers in the Amazon

05/10/01 -- Managing Brazil's Rainforests

05/08/01 -- Indians vow to fight army base in Brazil

05/07/01 -- FSC certified area in the Brazilian Amazon doubles

05/06/01 -- Paradise for pit vipers

05/01/01 -- Brazil: attacks on Indians

04/26/01 -- Logging standards: seeing the forest for the trees

04/21/01 -- Brazilian Groups Propose 'Squatter' Lands to Be Converted into National Parks

04/20/01 -- Brazilian Amazon Threatened by Expanded Agriculture & Illegal Logging

04/19/01 -- New Brazilian legislation threatens Amazon

04/19/01 -- A jungle of land scams in Brazil

04/18/01 -- Environmentalists oppose change in law that threatens Brazilian rainforest

04/15/01 -- New Light on Amazon's Biodiversity

04/14/01 -- Report: Rio's Jungle Disappearing, Beaches Polluted

04/13/01 -- Amazon Basin soon to be outfitted in high-tech surveillance equipment

04/10/01 -- 'Lost' tribe enslaved in Brazil

04/08/01 -- Brazilians Meet New Amazon Tribe

04/08/01 -- Brazilian expedition meets previously uncontacted Amazon tribe

04/05/01 -- 1,000th Golden Lion Tamarin Gets Birthday Gift of Habitat

04/04/01 -- World Wildlife Fund: Endangered Primate Pulled Back From Brink Of Extinction

04/04/01 -- Tamarins edge off danger list

04/04/01 -- Rare Monkey Born in Brazil

04/04/01 -- Lion-faced monkey stages roaring comeback

04/04/01 -- Golden Tamarin Monkey is Saved from Extinction

04/04/01 -- Golden primate makes a comeback

03/27/01 -- Amazon Forest May Take Some Heat off Global Warming

03/26/01 -- Anthropologists head into Amazon jungle to find elusive tribe

03/23/01 -- Amazonian Rainforest Worth Hundreds of Billions of Dollars

03/22/01 -- Fires continue to burn in Roraima: four arrested

03/22/01 -- Amazonia absorbs carbon dioxide, affirms study

03/21/01 -- Vote on Forest Code to take place in May

03/20/01 -- Forest Conservation Number One Priority for Amazon Residents

03/19/01 -- New conflict over Araguaia-Tocantins waterway

03/14/01 -- Roraima may face disaster again

03/14/01 -- Dam Protesters Occupy Brazil's Ministry of Energy

03/05/01 -- Besides Amazon, another Brazilian jewel faces peril

02/28/01 -- New threats to the Forest Code

02/16/01 -- List of endangered animals to grow

02/16/01 -- Brazil to remove gold prospectors from Amazon Indian lands

02/16/01 -- Brazil fights to put out northeast forest fires

02/15/01 -- Gas pipeline and waterway in the Amazon have high socio-political risk to potential investors

02/14/01 -- Court denies expansion of Kayapó Indigenous Reserve

02/11/01 -- Indians confront invaders in 178 of their traditional territories

02/08/01 -- Work on waterway damages nature, say WWF

02/07/01 -- Deforestation will be limited to areas of 3 hectares

02/06/01 -- Satellite images show 40 fires in Roraima

02/06/01 -- N. Skog gets 90.6 control of Brazil's PISA

02/05/01 -- State of Pará to take back 13 million hectares

02/05/01 -- Operation to remove miners from indigenous reserve confirmed

02/05/01 -- New wave of forest fires feared in Roraima

02/05/01 -- Diseases threaten Brazilian tribe

02/02/01 -- Letter: Amazon Forests in Peril

02/02/01 -- Letter: Amazon Forests in Peril (2)

02/01/01 -- Treading lightly; Ecotourism is a distinctly private-sectorapproach to environmental protection, especially in the Amazon

01/31/01 -- Amazon Feeds Diverse, Sustainable Market

01/27/01 -- Letter: Threat to the Amazon

01/25/01 -- Government to study environmental impact of development projects in Amazon

01/25/01 -- Brazil to Assess Environmental Impact of Development Plan on Amazon

01/24/01 -- Brazil Will Not Let Amazon Become a 'Sanctuary'

01/24/01 -- Brazil Aide Pledges Care in Amazon Plans

01/23/01 -- Brazil Chooses Environmentalist to Head Top Agency

01/23/01 -- Amazon report is 'flawed futurology'

01/22/01 -- First results of Economic-Ecological Zoning project in Amazonas

01/22/01 -- Development outpaces conservation in Amazon rain forest

01/21/01 -- Brazilian government challenges "Science" article

01/21/01 -- Amazon rainforest under threat

01/20/01 -- Roads plan could destroy Brazilian Amazon by 2020

01/20/01 -- Roads to Ruin for Amazon

01/19/01 -- Whither the mighty Amazon?

01/19/01 -- Roads lead to Amazon 'destruction'

01/19/01 -- Death Sentence for the Amazon

01/19/01 -- Brazil's projects threaten rain forest, study reports

01/19/01 -- Roads lead to Amazon 'destruction'

01/19/01 -- Building roads could destroy Amazon, report says

01/19/01 -- Brazilian development project puts huge rain forest in peril, scientists say

01/18/01 -- Widespread and Accelerating Loss of Amazonian Rainforest Predicted

01/18/01 -- Administration of national parks to be privatized

01/18/01 -- Activist takes Brazil environment post

01/17/01 -- Government begins to elaborate biodiversity policy

01/17/01 -- Focus on sustainable agriculture

01/16/01 -- Endangered jaguars blamed for cattle losses in Brazil

01/14/01 -- Amazon at risk from Brazilian government road work project

01/13/01 -- Conman who peddled false rainforest titles

01/11/01 -- This Land is Our Land, Brazil Tells Squatters

01/10/01 -- Beware: there are sharks in the jungle

01/09/01 -- Riding herd on development in famed Brazilian wetlands

01/09/01 -- Brazilian authorities investigate alleged eco-fraud

01/09/01 -- Activists Question Gov't Land Reform Claims

01/08/01 -- Brazilian Selling Amazon Tracts to Foreigners

01/01/01 -- More than 100 animal species risk extinction in Brazil: report

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