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Brazil to give Amazonian tribes Internet access to fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 30 Mar 2007

Intellectual property rights reach indigenous communities in the Amazon

Carolina Bruun 21 Mar 2007

70% of new drugs come from Mother Nature

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2007

Poisonous tree frog brings hope to indigenous community in the Amazon

Carolina Bruun 19 Mar 2007

Amazon rainforest fires date back thousands of years

Rhett A. Butler 14 Mar 2007

Pre-Colombian Amazon rainforest not heavily populated

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2007

Gold mining in Guyana damages environment, threatens Amerindians

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2007

Archeologists find oldest solar observatory in the Americas

Yale University 1 Mar 2007

Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact

Rhett A. Butler 28 Feb 2007

Philosophical shift in conservation reintegrates humans in nature

Rhett A. Butler 28 Feb 2007

Humans pre-date Clovis population in North America

Texas A 22 Feb 2007

Does language extinction matter?

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2007

Chili peppers came from Ecuadorian rainforests 6,100 years ago

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2007

Logging roads lead to disease, social breakdown in Ecuador rainforest communities

Mongabay.com 4 Dec 2006

Amazon Indians use Google Earth, GPS to protect forest home

Rhett A. Butler 15 Nov 2006

Indians are key to rainforest conservation efforts says renowned ethnobotanist

Rhett A. Butler 31 Oct 2006

Traditional customs pit young versus old in Indonesia’s Torajaland

Tina Butler 19 Oct 2006

Bison-hunting Plains indians more advanced than thought

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2006

Colombia’s indigenous communities under threat warns UN agency

Un News Service 5 Apr 2006

Congo Pygmies Losing Fight for Their Forests

The Associated Press 6 Mar 2006

Parks, indian reserves slow Amazon deforestation

Rhett A. Butler 25 Jan 2006

Indigenous Amazonians Display Core Understanding Of Geometry

Harvard University News 23 Jan 2006

Hunting ban threatens Congo forest dwellers

Irin 31 Oct 2005

Pre-Columbian Amazon supported millions of people

Tina Butler 18 Oct 2005

Anti-HIV drug from rainforest almost lost before its discovery

Rhett A. Butler 13 Sep 2005

Second “uncontacted” tribe in Amazon rain forest threatened by loggers

Reuters 27 May 2005

How did rainforest shamans gain their boundless knowledge on medicinal plants?

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2005

indigenous people oppose National Geographic, IBM project

Tina Butler 9 May 2005

Ethnologists attempt to show forest dwellers perils of leaving the rain forest

Afp. All Rights Reserved. 5 May 2005

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