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DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR


01/12/2012	Atlas of Pressures and Threats to Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon This report presents a complementary and integrated view of different forms of intervention in the Amazon ...	Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG)
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25/10/2012	Soy Moratorium: Mapping and Monitoring Soybean in the Amazon Biome – 5th Year The Soy Moratorium in the Amazon Biome was renewed for the fifth time in October 2011, continuing the ...	ABIOVE, the Brazilian Vegetable Oil Industries Association
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18/04/2012	Proliferation of Hydroelectric Dams in the Andean Amazon and Implications for Andes-Amazon Connectivity Due to rising energy demands and abundant untapped potential, hydropower projects are rapidly increasing ...	PLoS ONE (Matt Finer & Clinton N Jenkins)
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19/01/2012	The Amazon Basin in Transition Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon ...	Nature (Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro C. de Araújo, Paulo Artaxo, Jennifer K. Balch, I. Foster Brown, Mercedes M. C. Bustamante, Michael T. Coe, Ruth S. DeFries, Michael Keller, Marcos Longo, J. William Munger, Wilfrid Schroeder, Britaldo S. Soares-Filho, Carlos M. Souza & Steven C. Wofsy)
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20/12/2011	Fruit Trees and Useful Plants in Amazonian Life This book provides comprehensive information on Amazon fruits and plants, using pictures and numbers, ...	FAO
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01/11/2011	Regional Development and Greenhouse Gases Emission: the Case of the Amazon Region Amazonian deforestation is a major regional and global disaster, rapidly diminishing natural capital, ...	University of São Paolo (Denise Imori, Joaquim José Martins Guilhoto, Letícia Scretas David, Leopoldo Millan Gutierre & Caio Waisman)
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30/05/2011	The State of the Forests in the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin and South East Asia This report was prepared for the Summit of the Three Rainforest Basins Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, ...	FAO / ITTO
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24/05/2011	Roads as Drivers of Change: Trajectories Across the Tri-National Frontier in MAP, the Southwestern Amazon Regional studies of land cover change are often limited by available data and in terms of comparability ...	Remote Sensing (J Southworth, M Marsik, Y Qiu, S Perz, G Cumming, F Stevens, K Rocha, A Duchelle, G Barnes)
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22/11/2005	Failing the Forests: Europe's Illegal Timber Trade Based on trade data for six key timber-producing regions – the Amazon Basin, the Baltic States, ...	WWF
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR


16/04/2013	Why action on forests now is essential to all our futures Saving forests offers a new route to alleviating hunger and malnutrition, promoting development and tackling ...	Bharrat Jagdeo for The Guardian
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27/03/2013	Researchers question evaluation methods for protected areas in the Amazon The indicators currently being used to guide policy and investments into protected areas in the Amazon ...	Science Codex
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20/03/2013	Tragedy and Transformation: Deforestation in the Amazon (Part 1) About 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from tropical deforestation – more than ...	EDF
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31/12/2012	The year in rainforests 2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of ...	Mongabay.com
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25/12/2012	Deforestation in the Amazon affects microbial life as well as ecosystems A troubling loss of diversity among the microbial organisms responsible for a functioning ecosystem is ...	redOrbit
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06/12/2012	Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries The average annual rate of deforestation across Amazon rainforest countries dropped sharply in the second ...	Mongabay.com
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04/12/2012	Amazon deforestation destroyed UK-sized territory Deforestation in the Amazon destroyed an area almost as big as the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2010, ...	ABC News, Australia
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28/10/2012	Deforestation Amazon biome at standstill ABIOVE, the Brazilian Vegetable Oil Industries Association, published the results of the fifth annual ...	AllAboutFeed, The Netherlands
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22/10/2012	Ecuador says companies join novel Amazon protection fund About a dozen companies are contributing to a novel conservation plan that pays Ecuador to protect part ...	Planet Ark (Reuters)
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06/09/2012	Guess who's chopping down the Amazon now? Though Brazil's Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation ...	NPR (National Public Radio), Washington, US
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05/09/2012	Study: Deforestation reduces rainfall Leeds, England - Deforestation can reduce rainfall with potentially devastating impacts on people living ...	UPI.com
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31/08/2012	Amazon forest threat is greater outside Brazil In Ascencion, Bolivia — On a scorching afternoon in the Amazon, all Agustin Villa and his partner ...	The Washington Post, US
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25/07/2012	Forest carbon monitoring breakthrough in Colombia Using new, highly efficient techniques, Carnegie and Colombian scientists have developed accurate high-resolution ...	Physorg.com
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12/07/2012	Amazon's doomed species set to pay deforestation's 'extinction debt' Ending forest clearance would not save some species from the effects of decades of destruction, scientists ...	The Guardian, UK
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08/06/2012	Report: 100 Amazon bird species are at greater risk of extinction due to deforestation Deforestation in the Amazon has put nearly 100 bird species at greater risk of extinction, the International ...	Scientific American blog
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07/06/2012	100 species of Amazon birds risk extinction due to deforestation, conservationist group says Rio de Janeiro - The list of Amazon bird species facing danger of extinction has risen sharply because ...	The Washington Post, US
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18/04/2012	Will mega-dams destroy the Amazon? More than 150 new dams planned across the Amazon basin could significantly disrupt the ecological connectivity ...	Mongabay.com
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22/03/2012	Google launches Amazon Street View Google's free online map service on Wednesday began letting people explore portions of the Amazon ...	Ottawa Citizen, Canada
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22/03/2012	Paving the Amazon: Study helps predict potential deforestation rates along major highways Bogor, Indonesia - CIFOR scientists are helping to estimate the extent of deforestation that accompanies ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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27/01/2012	Amazon rainforest mapped in unprecedented detail Scientists record Amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 ...	The Guardian, UK
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19/01/2012	Deforestation, climate change threaten the ecological resilience of the Amazon rainforest The combination of deforestation, forest degradation, and the effects of climate change are weakening ...	Mongabay.com
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18/01/2012	Rainforest in transition: is the Amazon transforming before our eyes? A review suggests that the Amazon rainforest may be changing, courtesy of human impacts on the region's ...	Scientific American
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09/01/2012	Peruvian gangs traffic timber from Brazil Peruvian groups carry out illegal logging in Brazil before transporting the wood along tributaries of ...	InSight Crime, US / Colombia
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15/12/2011	Little headway in Durban on deforestation: experts Brasilia - The UN's Durban conference on climate change failed to make enough headway in efforts ...	AFP
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27/11/2011	8 Amazon countries pledge more coordination in rainforest conservation Eight Amazon countries pledged greater cooperation in efforts to protect the world's largest rainforest ...	Mongabay.com
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22/11/2011	Amazon countries vow to enhance conservation efforts Manaus, Brazil — Eight South American countries pledged Tuesday to boost cooperation to protect ...	AFP
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04/06/2011	Rainforest basin nations agree to tackle deforestation Brazzaville — The 32 countries sharing the world's three largest rainforest basins agreed ...	AFP
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02/06/2011	Destruction of world's biggest rainforests down 25 percent: FAO The rate of destruction of the world's three largest forests fell 25 percent this decade compared ...	Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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22/04/2011	Environmental activists launch balloon-rigged banner at Washington Square Arch: a challenge to NYC government’s use of Amazon wood for 400 new park benches Climate and rainforest activists floated a 300-square foot banner up the Washington Square Park arch ...	Rainforests of New York / Rainforest Relief
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11/04/2011	Peruvian presidential election may decide Amazon future The enormous segment of Amazonian rainforest that covers over half of the country has always been an ...	The Cutting Edge News
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04/02/2011	Leading article: Beware the collapse of the planet's lungs The year 2005 was an exceptionally dry one for the Amazon rainforest. Thousands of square kilometres ...	The Independent, UK
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17/01/2011	Rainfall patterns can't be ignored in climate change debate Rio de Janeiro - In discussions of human activities that affect the climate, there is relatively little ...	IPS News
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26/12/2010	Rain may disappear from the world's breadbasket Rio de Janeiro - South America still has vast extensions of land available for growing crops to help ...	IPS News
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16/06/2010	Malaria increases 50 percent following deforestation in the Amazon A new study shows that deforestation in the Amazon helps spread disease by creating an optimal environment ...	Mongabay.com
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28/04/2010	Large-scale soy farming in Brazil pushes ranchers into the Amazon rainforest Industrial soy expansion in the Brazilian Amazon has contributed to deforestation by pushing cattle ranchers ...	Mongabay.com
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19/04/2010	Ross Kemp: Reluctant eco-warrior Ross Kemp is not an environmentalist. He says so right at the start of his new documentary Ross Kemp: ...	Guardian, UK
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11/03/2010	Deforestation conference to turn plans to action Paris — French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations ...	The Associated Press
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28/02/2010	Brazil: Mahogany trade back on CITES agenda The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) will reportedly propose a debate ...	ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organisation) Market Report
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02/02/2010	A cure for the Amazon's deforestation: More logging Writing from Iquitos, Peru, forester and woodworker James King presents a solution for the deforestation ...	Living in Peru
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01/02/2010	Peru backs massive Amazon protected area Lima, Peru - The Peruvian National Protected Areas Service has decided to allocate funds to help protect ...	WWF
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09/12/2009	Changing drivers of deforestation provide new opportunities for conservation Tropical deforestation claimed roughly 13 million hectares of forest per year during the first half of ...	Mongabay.com
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09/12/2009	Deforestation linked to drought Scientists looking at climate change have found a link between deforestation and drought. ...	Wales Online, UK
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04/12/2009	Is the Amazon rainforest worth an $18 billion bailout? New research was recently published in the journal Science which estimates that deforestation of Brazil's ...	Tree Hugger
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23/11/2009	British NGO launches campaign to protect Peruvian Amazon London – British environmental group Cool Earth has launched a campaign to get 100,000 Britons ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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18/10/2009	Tribe teams with Google to make stand in Amazon The chief of an endangered Amazon tribe will unveil today the product of an unusual partnership with ...	San Francisco Chronicle
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16/10/2009	S. American bishops take stand in rain forest crunch Lima, Peru - Ever since the Spanish conquistadors set off across the Andes in search of El Dorado, outsiders ...	Western Catholic Reporter, Canada
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22/09/2009	Can Nike and Wal-Mart save the Amazon? An ambitious commitment by some of the world's largest companies not to buy beef or leather products ...	The Christian Science Monitor
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12/08/2009	Satellite images reveal Congo deforestation The first images from Britain's satellite spacecraft UK-DMC2 have been returned. ...	Cool Earth
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25/05/2009	Slow forest tenure reform threatens Africa's action against climate change A new report released today at a major global forestry conference in Cameroon has found that deforestation ...	Africa Science News Service (Kenya)
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16/04/2008	Brazil: Illegal shipment of Amazonian timber seized A shipment of Amazonian timber bound for Europe has been seized, the Brazilian Environmental Authority ...	BYM Marine Environment News (Gibraltar)
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04/05/2007	Ecological Internet's "End Ancient Forest Logging" campaign targets World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace for their role in promoting ancient primary rainforest logging (Press Release) Do WWF and Greenpeace members realize they are supporting industrial logging of the world's ...	rainforestportal.org (USA)
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14/07/2006	Safeguarding Cameroon's Rainforest (Radio Transcript) During the last 40 years the rainforest of Africa's Congo Basin has been devastated ...	Living on Earth (USA)
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02/02/2006	Brazilian aircraft deal takes off with help from ECGD A UK exporter has completed a $17 million (USD) safety contract for 76 Brazilian Air Force planes which ...	Creditman (UK)
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31/01/2006	Peruvian mahogany stands under attack Lima, Peru - Facing uncontrolled logging of mahogany and other tree species, Peruvian lawmakers in 2000 ...	EcoAmericas.com
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR


28/01/2011	Structuration of the Chinese timber trade: insights from Amazonia and the Congo Basin	Louis Putzel, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE


Wednesday 20th June 2012	ACTO Member Countries Vision of Amazon Forests. Monitoring Deforestation This official Rio+20 side event is organised by ACTO (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation). ACTO ...
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT


Amazon Watch	Amazon Watch works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. The organisation partners with indigenous and environmental organisations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.	Broken link
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