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05/14/2008
Peru creates environment ministry to help protect its Amazon rainforest (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) - Peru has created its first environment ministry to help protect the nation's Amazon rainforest, Peruvian President Alan Garcia said. Creation of the environment ministry precedes a joint Latin American and European Union summit to be hosted by Peru this week.
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05/14/2008
Amazon dilemma for Brazil's Indians (BBC News)
The BBC's Gary Duffy visits Tembe Indians in the Amazon rainforest who say illegal logging threatening their way of life.
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05/14/2008
Fears for Amazon rainforest as Brazil's environment minister resigns (Guardian Unlimited)
Fears are growing for the future of the world's largest tropical rainforest, after the sudden resignation of Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva
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05/15/2008
Sustainable development of Amazon possible: minister (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The Brazilian minister in charge of managing the Amazon rainforest says deforestation can only be stopped if the 25 million people there are given economic opportunities.
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05/15/2008
Lawlessness mars Amazon dreams (BBC News)
Travelling around the Amazon forest in Mato Grosso state, the BBC's Carolina Glycerio finds a sense of disorder and lawlessness.
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05/15/2008
Amazon 'needs economic chance' (BBC News)
The minister in charge of Brazil's rainforest says conservation and economic development go hand in hand.
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05/14/2008
Amazon defender quits Brazil environment post (Guardian Unlimited)
Brazil's environment minister, hailed as a champion of the green movement but scorned by powerful farming groups, has resigned after losing key battles in her efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest.
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05/15/2008
Amazon challenge (BBC News)
Brazil's new plan to protect and exploit the Amazon
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05/15/2008
Seeking an Amazon solution (BBC News)
The BBC's Fergus Nicoll finds tension between conservation and economic development in Brazil's new plan for a sustainable Amazon.
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05/14/2008
Brazil`s Amazon minister resigns (AngolaPress)
Rio de Janeiro, 05/14- Brazil`s Environment Minister, Marina Silva, a staunch defender of the Amazon rainforest, has resigned from her post. In a resignation letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva she said the move was "personal and irrevocable".
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