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Study uncovers high extinction risk for many Amazonian tree species. Among tree species in the Ecuadorian Amazon, 14% are critically endangered and 47% are endangered due to deforestation and also with complex relationships with other living organisms in their environment.

Deforestation reduces malaria bed nets' effectiveness

Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon's worst-ever drought

Deforestation in the Amazon is driven more by domestic demand than by the export market - EurekAlert

Environmental laws failing to slow deforestation

Environmental laws failing to slow deforestation - EurekAlert

New European rules to curb deforestation have worrying flaws, scientists say

Rabies outbreaks in Costa Rica cattle linked to deforestation - EurekAlert

Rabies outbreaks in Costa Rica cattle linked to deforestation

In Brazil, 76% of deforestation in three Amazonian states occurred in a planned agricultural development zone - EurekAlert

Deforestation harms biodiversity of the Amazon's perfume-loving orchid bees

Deforestation harms biodiversity of the Amazon's perfume-loving orchid bees - EurekAlert

8 in 10 lizards could be at risk due to deforestation

Endangered Parrots Threatened By Deforestation And Climate Change

‘Everything is parched’: Amazon struggles with drought amid deforestation

Deforestation increased in 2022 despite pledges to save forests