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12/31/01 -- Honduran hamlet split over dam; Project would dry up river, opponents say

12/28/01 -- MEXICO: Unfamiliar Turf: Saving the Environment

12/28/01 -- COSTA RICA: Planting the seeds of rainforest preservation

12/21/01 -- New conservation strategy to protect monarch butterfly winter habitat in Mexico

12/20/01 -- Besieged forest saved by users in Guatemala/Village loggers guard biosphere

12/18/01 -- Costa Rica: Awaiting an Increase in Tourism

12/13/01 -- Amazon as "Carbon Sink": What Effect on Global Warming?

12/08/01 -- Everywhere and nowhere in the Peruvian jungle

12/06/01 -- Bolivian government authorizes gas pipeline to Brazil

12/05/01 -- Mexico Tropical Forests in Danger

12/05/01 -- Mexico in danger of losing tropical forests during this century, study finds

12/04/01 -- Mexico Losing Forests Rapidly

12/03/01 -- World's Smallest Reptile Discovered in Caribbean

12/03/01 -- Tiny Lizard Illustrates Big Lessons on Habitat

12/03/01 -- Smallest Known Lizard Found in Caribbean

12/03/01 -- Official: Mexico Losing Forest Fast

12/03/01 -- Mexican official reports deforestation much worse than previously estimated

12/03/01 -- Chile green groups question aluminum plant comment

12/01/01 -- Mexicans See Banner Year for Monarch Butterflies

11/30/01 -- World Wildlife Fund tells U.S. to cease aerial spraying of coca crops in Colombia

11/30/01 -- Helping Monarchs Reign

11/30/01 -- $30 million found for imperiled Latin American and Caribbean parks

11/29/01 -- Mexican fund to protect butterflies

11/28/01 -- President Fox announces program to protect habitat of migrating monarch butterflies

11/28/01 -- Mexico plans to develop beach resort in Baja

11/28/01 -- Mexican study raises GM concern

11/28/01 -- Biotech corn spreads in Mexico

11/26/01 -- Mexico Moves to Protect Monarch Butterfly Reserve

11/20/01 -- Something Missing in Fragile Cloud Forest: The Clouds

11/15/01 -- Chalillo Dam Project Cleared by Belize Government

11/12/01 -- Mexican environmentalists vow to keep on fighting

11/09/01 -- Mexico's Fox frees two prisoners held in protests against logging

11/09/01 -- Mexico's Fox frees imprisoned environmentalists

11/09/01 -- Mexico Releases 2 Activists From Jail

11/09/01 -- Fox Pardons Activists Jailed After Opposition to Logging

11/09/01 -- Eight baby condors to soar over Andes by December

11/08/01 -- Tortured Mexican Environmentalists Released

11/08/01 -- Mexican lawyer's death seen tied to logging fight

11/08/01 -- Fighters for the Forests Are Released From Mexican Jail

11/02/01 -- Historic Decisions Made for Conservation of the Galapagos Islands

10/26/01 -- Sustainable Tequila: Protecting the Wild Agave

10/26/01 -- Latin American and Caribbean governments call for external debt to be swapped for environmental protections

10/25/01 -- Global Protests Against Ecuador Pipeline

10/24/01 -- International Actions Against OCP Pipeline Today

10/23/01 -- LATIN AMERICA: New Ecological Problems Outpace Solutions

10/22/01 -- U.S. to donate $11 million to help protect Guatemala's environment

10/22/01 -- COSTA RICA: Paying the Price for Deforestation

10/21/01 -- Human Rights Lawyer Shot Dead in Mexico

10/19/01 -- Forests in Central America are losing cloud cover

10/19/01 -- COSTA RICA: Cloud forests threatened by lowland deforestation

10/19/01 -- BOLIVIA: Sustainable forests management for all

10/18/01 -- Mexican Maize Contaminated with Engineered Genes

10/12/01 -- Controversial Pipeline Construction Blockaded in Ecuadorian Cloud Forest Reserve

10/08/01 -- Peru's Rainforest Natives Pin Future on Ecotourism

10/07/01 -- Poverty, disease, oil exploration and logging drive WaraoIndians to Venezuela's cities

10/03/01 -- OCP Ecuador wins Quito okay for pipeline route

09/30/01 -- MAYA: The Fated Forest

09/30/01 -- Local man aims to save rain forest; Foundation protects jungle in Costa Rica

09/28/01 -- Water supplies alleged contaminated by Peru gold mine

09/21/01 -- South America gains its largest freshwater protected area

09/21/01 -- Ecuadorians File U.S. Suit Over Plan Colombia

09/19/01 -- Bolivia's gift to the Earth largest in South America

09/18/01 -- WWF welcomes Latin America's largest freshwater protected area

09/16/01 -- Illegal trafficking threatens Costa Rica's wildlife

09/10/01 -- Controversy dogs U.S.-funded fumigation

09/05/01 -- Mexico Seeking to Tap Ecotourism Market

09/03/01 -- Chile miner Los Pelambres hits environmental snag

09/02/01 -- Struggle for Law in Suriname Jungles

08/28/01 -- Surinamese mining companies and once-displaced villagers vie for land rights

08/26/01 -- On Tourism, Mexico Now Thinks Green

08/26/01 -- Ecuador's highest court upholds $1.1 billion dollar oil pipeline

08/26/01 -- Colombian Candidate Questions Plan

08/20/01 -- Route for Ecuador's new pipeline upheld in court

08/20/01 -- Mexico seizes lion cub, hundreds of animal skins

08/16/01 -- Ecuadorians Move to Block Chevron-Texaco Merger

08/14/01 -- PARAGUAY: Battle to save starving crocodiles

08/11/01 -- MEXICO: Environmentalists Win Fight to Preserve Beach

08/10/01 -- Citigroup Becomes Mexico's Largest Bank After Banamex Merger

08/09/01 -- Ecuador battles to preserve spell of the 'enchanted isles'

08/09/01 -- Ad Campaign Warns Chevron It Must Pay Billions For Texaco's Dumping In In Amazon Rainforest; Texaco Liability Poses Obstacle For Chevron Merger

08/03/01 -- Landmark Deal Will Protect Rainforests in Belize

08/02/01 -- U.S. Cancels $1.4M Belize Debt

08/02/01 -- U.S. cancels $1.4 million in debt owed by Belize in exchange for forest conservation

08/01/01 -- Colombia's U'wa Tribe and Supporters Celebrate Oxy's Failure to Find Oil

08/01/01 -- Costa Rica's trees-for-debt request

07/27/01 -- Occidental finds no oil at Colombian Siriri well

07/20/01 -- Ecuador asks Colombia to halt aerial coca fumigation

07/19/01 -- Two jailed Mexican logging activists lose appeal

07/18/01 -- Tortured Appeal of Mexican Ecologists Denied

07/13/01 -- Peruvian farmers resist Canadian firm's efforts to dig open-pit mine

07/13/01 -- Bush, Rodriguez discuss rain forest project

07/13/01 -- Bush, Costa Rican President Meet

07/11/01 -- Plans advance for nature sanctuary in Chile

07/10/01 -- Argentine NGOs Present a National Strategy for Biodiversity

07/04/01 -- Vast Chilean wilderness saved / Bay Area tycoon reaches sanctuary agreement with government

07/03/01 -- Most mammal species found in Peruvian Amazon

06/29/01 -- Mexico Fights to Save Forests

06/26/01 -- Update on the Cascada Chile project

06/26/01 -- Treading lightly in Ecuador’s rain forests

06/26/01 -- ECUADOR: Oil and cloud-forests don’t mix

06/22/01 -- Peru protesters block road over Antamina mine worry

06/20/01 -- Landslide Ruptures Ecuador Pipeline

06/20/01 -- Environmentalists to block Ecuador pipeline

06/13/01 -- Ecuador: Government Approves Controversial Oil Pipeline

06/11/01 -- Environmental battle steams up over Ecuador pipeline

06/08/01 -- Ecuador gives go-ahead to Dollars 1.1bn oil pipeline

06/07/01 -- Ecuador gives pipeline green light with permit

06/06/01 -- Wildlife Protection Linked With Coffee-Growing

06/06/01 -- Shell Contributes $1 Million to Help Preserve Laguna Madre

06/06/01 -- Road drives through Guyana’s heart

06/06/01 -- Islands share a fragile beauty; Trinidad and Tobago

06/06/01 -- First National Coastal Park Created in Argentine Patagonia

06/01/01 -- Chile's battleground of culture vs. profit

05/31/01 -- Judge Dismisses Ecuador Lawsuit

05/31/01 -- ECUADOR: U.S. Judge Dismisses Amazon Pollution Case

05/29/01 -- Ecuador pipeline riding on enviro. permits - OCP

05/29/01 -- ACTION ALERT! Protect Tierra Del Fuego's Ancient Gondwana Forests

05/28/01 -- Guyana's Rainforest Wilderness Threatened by Major Road Project

05/26/01 -- SURINAME: Some parcels pursued for preservation

05/25/01 -- Peru Preserves Untouched Andean Rainforest in New National Park

05/24/01 -- US scientists praise new Peruvian national park

05/22/01 -- $9.7 million tree-planting program funded in Latin America

05/21/01 -- ACTION ALERT: Environmental Opposition to Ecuador Pipeline Intensifies

05/16/01 -- COSTA RICA: UN Without conservation, economic growth cannotbe sustained, Secretary-General states

05/14/01 -- Jailed Mexican logging activists granted appeal

05/14/01 -- High Demand for Tequila Puts Mexico's Dry Forests at Risk

05/11/01 -- Mystery of the Monarch butterflies solved

05/11/01 -- Jailed Mexican logging activists granted appeal

05/10/01 -- Environment-Mexico: New Hope for Imprisoned Activists

05/08/01 -- Biologists Document Rich Plant Life of Guyana to Aid Conservation

05/07/01 -- Tequila sources running dry

05/07/01 -- Poverty Stripping Mexico's Forests

05/06/01 -- Environmentalists Protest Mexican Plans For Baja California

05/04/01 -- Map Helps Amazon Indians Claim Their Rain Forest

05/03/01 -- Map just might help save rain forest

04/29/01 -- Green Power Grows South of Border

04/28/01 -- Stop Illegal Logging in Peru

04/26/01 -- International scientists issue warning to Canadian multinational

04/12/01 -- Mexico environment minister promises swift changes

04/11/01 -- GR Action #2/01: No Oil Development on Caribbean Coast/CostaRica

04/10/01 -- Costa Rica's eco-coffees not being recognized globally

04/10/01 -- Bush’s former oil firm threatens sea turtles

04/07/01 -- Fears Mount in Mexico That Butterflies Are Losing Ground

04/06/01 -- Environment-Jamaica: Bauxite Mining Blamed for Deforestation

04/06/01 -- Bush's Former Oil Company Threatens Endangered Sea Turtles in Costa Rica: 800 turtle scientists issue plea

04/02/01 -- World Bank agency to protect biodiversity of Andes

04/01/01 -- Mexico Acts to Further Protect Monarch Butterfly

03/31/01 -- Honduran Government Leases One Third Of Country To Mining Companies

03/30/01 -- Mass butterfly death alarms Mexican ecologists

03/28/01 -- Boise Cascade harmed forests in Guerrero - wrong people are in jail

03/26/01 -- Species Protection Effort Races Colombian Chainsaws

03/26/01 -- Sanctuary No Refuge for Monarchs

03/21/01 -- War on drugs takes toll on environment

03/19/01 -- Whodunit: cold air or angry loggers?

03/19/01 -- Jamaica: Fight to Save Long Mountain Continues

03/19/01 -- Cold snap threatens reign of Monarch butterfly

03/18/01 -- Habitat loss threatens butterflies

03/17/01 -- 5 million butterflies die in Mexico; evidence points to deforestation

03/15/01 -- ACTION ALERT! Say NO to Oil Development on Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast

03/13/01 -- Amnesty says Mexico's Fox signals hope for ecologists

03/12/01 -- Mexico Says Monarch Butterflies Killed by the Cold

03/10/01 -- Monarch butterfly in danger in Canada, Mexico

03/08/01 -- Jailed Environmentalist Recognized for Environmental Heroism

03/07/01 -- Monarch butterflies feared poisoned

03/07/01 -- Mexico Opens National Crusade for Forests and Water

03/06/01 -- Loggers Said to Wipe Out 22 Million Butterflies

03/02/01 -- Mexico Rebels Hold Indian Forum

03/02/01 -- Chilean forest rescued from logging

02/27/01 -- Galapagos Looks to the Future

02/26/01 -- ACTION ALERT!  Oil Pipeline Threatens Ecuador's Rainforest Reserves

02/23/01 -- WWF Welcomes Boise Cascade Decision to Pull Out of Massive Chilean Wood Chip Mill

02/23/01 -- VICTORY! Cascade Cancels Massive Chile Forestry Project

02/22/01 -- Boise Cascade pulls out of Chile

02/22/01 -- Boise Cascade in Chile

02/17/01 -- Galapagos saga continues; oil tanker may stay

02/14/01 -- Indigenous peoples make deal with Venezuelan President

02/12/01 -- U.S. has sprayed 16 percent of Colombia's land with herbicides

02/12/01 -- Galapagos - "enchanted" land that time forgot

02/11/01 -- The enigma of Amazonia’s biodiversity

02/09/01 -- Victory for Indigenous Protesters / Ecuador

02/09/01 -- Boise Cascade Mill: Trading away the forests of Chile

02/09/01 -- Fire Destroys Costa Rican Forest

02/09/01 -- Baja Towns Struggle After Saving Whale Sanctuary

02/06/01 -- Jailed Mexico Ecologist Receives Sierra Club Award

02/02/01 -- Equador action alert

01/31/01 -- Animal death toll up in Galapagos

01/28/01 -- Ecuador oil pipeline bursts, spills oil into river

01/28/01 -- Colombia wants to be monarch of butterfly world

01/27/01 -- Science and sentiment surround Darwin's Eden

01/27/01 -- Ecuador tourism could slump from Galapagos spill

01/25/01 -- Galapagos oil spill cleanup runs into problems

01/24/01 -- Tanker spills remaining fuel near Galapagos as captain detained

01/24/01 -- Emergency Called as Galapagos Oil Spill Spreads

01/24/01 -- Conservation in Galapagos needs more than clean up, says WWF

01/23/01 -- Relief as Galapagos threat recedes

01/23/01 -- Real Lives: Birthplace of the evolution: An oil spill isthreatening the unique species of the Galapagos Islands

01/23/01 -- Oil Threatens ‘Extraordinary Ecosystem’ in Galápagos

01/23/01 -- Oil spill spreads in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands

01/22/01 -- WWF urges shipping ban round Galapagos

01/22/01 -- Oil spill near Ecuador's Galapagos is a 'disaster'

01/22/01 -- Galapagos spill fears grow

01/21/01 -- Stranded boat leaks oil in Galapagos

01/20/01 -- Spill threatens Galapagos Islands

01/20/01 -- Boat Leaks Oil in Ecuador's Pristine Galapagos

01/19/01 -- Chilean Government responds to international forum

01/16/01 -- Deforestation worsened quake, say environmentalists

01/15/01 -- Scorched Forest Fuels Tension on Guatemala-Belize Border

01/12/01 -- Indigenous Colombians denounce effects of anti-drug spraying

01/10/01 -- New species discovered in Ecuadoran Amazon

01/05/01 -- A rain forest's last stand: Mexico's talks with rebels mightstumble over future of jungle battleground

01/04/01 -- South America: Pipeline Project Draws Protests

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