Rainforest conservationists, eight illegal loggers were arrested by Brazilian police.
A purring monkey, a vegetarian piranha and a flame-patterned lizard are among more than 400 new species of animals and plants that have been discovered in the past four years in the Amazon rainforest, conservationists say.
The community was discovered in 2008, when it was spotted by a conservationist flying over rainforest near the country's north-eastern border with Brazil.
Others may follow.The Amazon Fund, launched on July 31st by Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leans on an idea that has become accepted wisdom among conservationists: to stop the Amazon rainforest from shrinking, a way must be found to make preserving it more lucrative than slashing and burning it.
Felicity Wishart was a lifelong conservationist who campaigned to save the Australian rainforests, prevent profiteering woodland-clearing and protect the Great Barrier Reef.
The paving project was to improve transportation between Brazil's soybean belt and foreign export markets, but conservationists expressed concern that it would open the rainforest to squatters, ranchers, loggers, and soybean farmers and hence lead to further forest destruction and the loss of wildlife and biodiversity.
Conservationists snatched up the remaining known golden frogs from the rainforest in plastic bags and took them first to "frog hotels" and later to specially created conservation "arks".
As a scientist, explorer and conservationist, I have spent much of my professional life in the rainforests of the world trying to understand and preserve these incredible and irreplaceable ecosystems.
A habitat as diverse as that in the Amazon rainforest will face ecological disaster unless the Government takes urgent action to restrict access to prime fishing grounds in the Irish Sea, marine conservationists have warned.
Philanthropist, conservationist, educator.
