Deforestation

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• Rio+20 Earth summit: Amazon deforestation – in pictures

  Gallery (18 pictures), 14 Jun 2012:

  The Brazilian Amazon remains threatened by the rapid development of the country

• Amazon deforestation at record low, data shows

  7 Jun 2012:

  Rate of illegal logging has fallen, but critics claim Brazil has weakened protection measures by revising Forest Code

• Nearly 100 bird species face increased risk of extinction in the Amazon

  7 Jun 2012:

  Deforestation causing loss of habitat across the region, as vulture numbers decline in Africa and long-tailed ducks disappear from Europe

• Tesco supplier accused of contributing to Amazon rainforest destruction

  6 Jun 2012: Greenpeace says meat products supplied by Brazilian firm JBS come from ranches in illegally deforested lands

• Brazilian leader Rousseff's pardon for illegal deforesters condemned

  1 Jun 2012: Attack on president's environmental credentials comes weeks before she is due to host Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro

• Gimme shelter: Mick Jagger asked to help save Amazon tribes' forest reserve

  31 May 2012:

  Rolling Stones frontman asked to help stop Camisea gas exploration project that threatens Peru's last uncontacted tribes

• IKEA under fire for ancient tree logging

  29 May 2012:

  IPS: Wholly owned subsidiary Swedwood accused of clear-cutting ancient Russian forests for use in furniture

• Brazil's leader vetoes portions of new Amazon rainforest law

  25 May 2012:

  Dilma Rousseff sends back parts of congressional bill that loosened country's protection of forest

• Leuser, the Sumatran orangutan shot 62 times – in pictures

  Gallery (12 pictures), 25 May 2012:

  A moving story of an orangutan who was rescued from being sold as a gift, reintroduced to the wild only to be captured again by villagers who shot him repeatedly for fun

• If President Rousseff passes the forest code, it won't be only Brazil that suffers

  24 May 2012: Fernando Meirelles: Brazil has a proud record of protecting the environment, but a bill allowing deforestation would undermine the Rio+20 summit

• Where will the loggers strike next? Map could model deforestation vulnerability across the Amazon rainforest

  24 May 2012:

  Researchers from Imperial College London say their map of timber prices could be used to model regional vulnerability to deforestation across the Amazon rainforest

• Dilma Rousseff must veto Brazil's devastating new forest code

  23 May 2012: Paulo Adario: The president must honour her pledge to protect the Amazon rainforest and block the pending land-use legislation

• US car industry drives deforestation in Brazil

  Gallery (15 pictures), 17 May 2012:

  From the Amazon to Cerrado the production of pig iron in illegal charcoal kilns is driving Brazilian rainforests to destruction. The iron is exported to the US to be used in the manufacture of cars

• Ford, GM and BMW linked to illegal logging and slave labour in Brazil

  17 May 2012: Car makers source iron from Brazil that contributes to Amazon deforestation, says Greenpeace ahead of Rio+20

• Petition calls on Brazilian president to veto 'catastrophic' forest code

  11 May 2012: More than 1.5 million people have petitioned Dilma Rousseff to reject a bill that may lead to further destruction of the Amazon

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