A U.S. logging company has won the rights to harvest trees in a large portion of Guyana’s Amazon rainforest. The timber concession covers 988,400 acres near the Brazilian border. Herald Tribune article
A Brazilian landowner was sentenced 30 years for the February 2005 murder of US-born nun Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old defender of the Amazon rainforest and landless people. Read the stories from May 15.
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