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IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	Monkeys vs. People? Brazil's Golden Lion Tamarin Association shows that conservation can be a win-win proposition where both nature and people benefit.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest.
IDB America January 2006	We Are Trying to Make Dreams Happen The governor of Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre is a passionate advocate of the rain forest and his people's economic future. Here's an interview with Jorge Viana on his government's innovative approach to preserving the rain forest.
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	Winning Hearts and Minds Conservationists and small farmers in Brazil had to get to know each other before they could work together to help save the fate of a little indigenous monkey.
IDB America May/Jun 2000	Ecological ground zero Seven of the world's most biodiverse---and threatened---areas are in Latin America and the Caribbean. What can be done to protect them?
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	The Message of a Little Monkey In Rio de Janeiro and across the globe, natural ecosystems are being altered and simplified to serve burgeoning human demands. If the golden lion tamarin escapes extinction, the world will be a little more habitable for the rest of us.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Machines in the Garden A state in Brazil's Amazon enlists laboratories and industrial parks to help protect its forests.
IDB America December 2003 Roger Hamilton	The biowealth of nations An eminent scientist argues that the information contained in biodiversity is one of a country's greatest assets.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	New Amazonians Latin America is attempting to create a relationship between man and nature that includes the history, heritage and views of local people.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Rain Forest Protagonist Local people first saw a new reserve in Brazil's rainforest as a threat, but are now optimistic that the change will help them preserve their way of life while offering some economic stability.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Tomorrow's Amazon In the far western Amazonian state of Acre, a group of idealists is inventing a pragmatic, hard-nosed way to protect the rainforest.
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton	On the Trail of the Peripatetic Pathogen Disease microbes make common cause between farmers and conservationists in far western Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
Smithsonian March 2007 Joshua Hammer	Rain Forest Rebel In the Amazon, researchers document the way the native people have joined forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness
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Smithsonian August 2006 Michael Tennesen	Uphill Battle As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die.
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Alexandra Wolfe	Next Life: Scouring the Forest for the Trees Private equity player Harald Orneberg sold his fund, then headed for Brazil to form The Forest Co. and grow (money on) trees.
Smithsonian November 2005 Elizabeth Royte	35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin This ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation.
Geotimes June 2003 Sara Pratt	Amazon's ancient rain forest Paleoclimatologists have often suggested that the Amazon Basin was an arid savanna during the Pleistocene about 2 million years ago. Now, researchers have found that lowland tropical rainforest likely dominated the region at that time, just as it does today.
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton	Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala.
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BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 Christopher Farrell	Cradle of Civilization 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann, is a fascinating, unconventional account of Indian life in the Americas prior to 1492. And it makes a compelling case that Mesoamerica was a cradle of civilization.
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IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Contraception Goes Organic Brazilian officials are hopeful that a commercial product such as condoms -- sold with their all-natural cachet -- will give the standing Amazonian rainforest additional value and boost incomes for the families that make their living from it.
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Smithsonian April 2004 Russ Rymer	Saving the Music Tree Artists and instrument makers have banded together to rescue Brazil's imperiled pernambuco, the source of bows for violins, violas and cellos.
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Outside September 2007 Steve Chapple	Model Nation It brought you Gisele, Ronaldo, and samba. But the real Brazil gets even better. Here's your map to the best sin and sand on the planet.
IDB America September 2004 David Atkinson	The Legacy of Chico Mendes How the tragedy of Brazilian rain forest activist Chico Mendes changed the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and altered the course of history
Scientific American September 2008 Charles Q. Choi	Drug Traffickers and Other Outlaws Endanger Forest Preservation Efforts Illegal ranching and illicit activities hamper forest conservation efforts.
Smithsonian July 2006 Seidensticker & Lumpkin	Building An Arc Despite poachers, insurgents and political upheaval, India and Nepal's bold approach to saving wildlife in the Terai Arc just may succeed.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2004 Tonya Vinas	Boise Challenges Suppliers While supply-chain optimization hasn't generally focused on environmental responsibility, it does at paper, office supply and construction materials manufacturer Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Idaho.
Outside November 2009 Elizabeth Hightower	Creating Conservation Communities There's a bold new idea on the front edge of conservation: Let's treat people as well as we treat animals.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Robert Aronen	Is Forest Oil a Bargain? This small exploration and production company may offer an opportunity to buy at a discount.
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The Motley Fool January 16, 2008 Brian Orelli	Forest Labs Not Down -- Yet Double-digit revenue growth is the highlight of a good quarter for Forest Labs, but the company will need a lot more than one solid quarter to get its stock growing again.
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