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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 |
Wired October 23, 2007 Andy Isaacson |
With the Help of GPS, Amazonian Tribes Reclaim the Rain Forest Tribes are using GPS to map out their tribal territory and asserting their legal right to the land. |
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 |
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 June 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Brazil's Other Forest Still brimming with biological diversity, the Atlantic Forest needs allies. |
Reason June 2009 Ronald Bailey |
Reforestation Rain forests are returning, but it's economic growth, not environmental activism, that's responsible. |
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. |
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. |
Scientific American September 2009 Madhusree Mukerjee |
Conflicted Conservation: When Restoration Efforts Are Pitted against Human Rights Saving Earth might mean trampling indigenous societies |
Outside March 2009 Ted Genoways |
Batman Returns They say you can't go home again -- to the strange, remote, threatened South American jungle where your larger-than-life, field-scientist dad discovered an extremely rare, weird-looking species called Lophostoma schulzi. |
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. |