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Jul 31
Costumes bring rainforest to life as Caribana marks 40th anniversary
Canoe.ca - Canada
The costumes portray the exotic birds, butterflies, flora and waters that
colour the rainforest landscape, including the Amazon rose
and Angel Falls...
Jul 30
Reunion Island Awards Rainforest Alliance Peru Organic Coffee
AMonline.com - Fort Atkinson, WI, USA
The coffee is an exotic offering from Peru's Altomayo region, located
in the upper Amazon basin. Company president Peter Pesce explains
the appeal of these
Jul 29
GreenTracks' Tours combine Machu Picchu and Amazon River Cruise
PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
into a two-week trip that will reveal the awe-inspiring
mountain-top Inca site of Machu Picchu with the splendors of the
Amazon river and rainforest.
Living and dying in the Brazilian Wild West
Sunday Herald - Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Since Stang's murder in 2005 the Brazilian government has stepped up
attempts to clamp down on the pistoleiros or hired guns of the Amazon rainforest as
Should Canadian farmers cash in on biofuel boom?
CTV.ca - Canada
40 per cent of Brazil's biodiesel -- and NASA observers have
linked an increase in their market price with the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest.
Vital rainforest experiment under threat
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
It's been used since 1979 to study the impact of logging and settlers
on rainforest ecosystems. But this "scientific Mecca" in
the Amazon is itself under
Brazil lost in jungle paranoia
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
to conserve the Amazon jungle - or a nefarious plot by
foreign environmental groups to wrest control of the world's largest
rainforest from Brazil and
COMMUNITY BRIEFS
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park, NJ, USA
the sale of rainforest products will be used to provide
food, clothing and educational assistance to the indigenous people of the
Amazon rainforest...
Smithsonian Fragmentation Project Threatened By Amazon
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Located two hours north of Manaus, Brazil, the project's study area
spans 1000 square kilometers and is home to an abundance of large
rainforest animals...
Jul 28
GreenTracks' Tours combine Machu Picchu and Amazon River Cruise
PR.com- Levittown, NY, USA
...into a two-week trip that will reveal the awe-inspiring
mountain-top Inca site of Machu Picchu with the splendors of the
Amazon river and rainforest.
Living and dying in the Brazilian Wild West
Sunday Herald - Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Since Stang's murder in 2005 the Brazilian government has stepped up
attempts to clamp down on the pistoleiros or hired guns of the Amazon
rainforest as
Should Canadian farmers cash in on biofuel boom?
CTV.ca - Canada
...40 per cent of Brazil's biodiesel -- and NASA observers have
linked an increase in their market price with the destruction of the
Amazon rainforest.
Vital rainforest experiment under threat
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
It's been used since 1979 to study the impact of logging and settlers
on rainforest ecosystems. But this "scientific Mecca" in
the Amazon is itself under
Brazil lost in jungle paranoia
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
...to conserve the Amazon jungle - or a nefarious plot by
foreign environmental groups to wrest control of the world's largest
rainforest from Brazil and
Sale of rainforest products
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park, NJ, USA
...the sale of rainforest products will be used to provide
food, clothing and educational assistance to the indigenous people of the
Amazon Rainforest...
Smithsonian Fragmentation Project Threatened By Amazon
Science Daily- USA
Located two hours north of Manaus, Brazil, the project's study area
spans 1000 square kilometers and is home to an abundance of large
rainforest animals...
Jul 27
Rainforest to get Internet access
Colorado Daily - Boulder, CO, USA
The rainforest in Peru is getting Internet service before it gets electricity.
Jul 26
"Virgin" rain forests of Costa Rica a misnomer
Mongabay.com - USA
Amazon rainforest fires date back thousands of years. Fires are
nothing new to the Amazon reports a study published in the journal
Biotropica.
Lula vows to fix aviation system
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
had not worked well since a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided
with an executive jet in the Amazon rainforest killing 154 people in
September last year.
Jul 25
Smithsonian Fragmentation Project threatened by Amazon
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA, USA
Located two hours north of Manaus, Brazil, the project's study area spans
1000 square kilometers and is home to an abundance of large
rainforest animals...
Longest-running Amazon rainforest experiment imperiled by colonization
Mongabay.com - USA
understand the impacts of deforestation and fragmentation on the
complex ecology of the world's largest and most biodiverse
rainforest: the Amazon.
Driving a wedge into the Amazon
Nature.com (subscription) - London, England, UK
In the BDFFP, however, researchers have surveyed thousands of
rainforest species, including trees, birds, mammals, amphibians and
various invertebrate
Jul 24
Greenpeace Under Fire for Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC, Canada
It is exceedingly hard to stop industrial logging in the Amazon,
Congo, Canada, Russia and elsewhere when big groups like Greenpeace and WWF
continue to
Amazon soya moratorium celebrates first anniversary
Greenpeace UK - London, UK
branches of McDonald's last year might be fading fast, but
it's one year since a moratorium was agreed on buying soya from the
Amazon rainforest.
Jul 23
Brazil president promises thorough probe for Brazil crash that
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
when a Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA Boeing 737 collided
with an executive jet and crashed in the Amazon rainforest killing
154 people.
Jul 22
Large earthquake rumbles through Amazon Basin
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow, UK
Rio de Janeiro - A earthquake with estimated 6.1 magnitude on the Richter
scale shook the Amazonian rainforest Saturday in Brazil, but no
significant damage
Jul 21
Large earthquake rumbles through Amazon Basin
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow, UK
Rio de Janeiro - A earthquake with estimated 6.1 magnitude on the Richter
scale shook the Amazonian rainforest Saturday in Brazil, but no
significant damage ...
Jul 20
Cook County News-Herald
Cook County News Herald - Grand Marais, MN, USA
A canoe journey into the Amazon rainforest is like traveling to
another world, a world where days can be filled with eerie silence, and
darkness brings the ...
Jul 18
Strong opposition for Brazilian dam
Practical Fishkeeping - Bretton, Peterborough, UK
It is estimated that 204 square miles of the Amazon rainforest will
be flooded as a result of the dam construction, and could block the routes
of migratory ...
Jul 17
Sleep herbs
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta, GA, USA
These natural sleep herbs have been used by the people of the Amazon
rainforest for thousands of years to induce healthy sleep habits.
Jul 16
Tracking climate change in the Amazon
OCRegister - Orange County, CA, USA
"Atmospheric chemistry modelers predict the Amazon is going to
turn from a rainforest to a grassland because of deforestation and
climate change.
Parallel made to vanishing rainforest; South American ...
Brantford Expositor - Canada
Indigenous people in the shrinking Amazon rainforest in South
America and the diminishing Carolinian forest in southern Ontario have many
common values and ...
Jul 15
Toll road could raise money for Amazon conservation
Mongabay.com - USA
It is predicted to result in unprecedented destruction of the Amazon
- the largest tropical forest in the world. In southern Peru the highway
will slice ...
Jul 14
US says Brazilian ethanol doesn't increase food prices, destroy...
Mongabay.com - USA
Brazil's surging ethanol production does not put the Amazon
rainforest at risk and is not fueling higher food prices, claimed a US
energy official visiting...
Jul 13
Lula da Silva says ethanol won't hurt Amazon rainforest
MercoPress - Montevideo, Uruguay
President Lula da Silva said that Brazil's booming ethanol business
won't hurt the Amazon rain forest, dismissing criticism that the
alternate fuel could...
Jul 12
People of the river
New Statesman - London, England, UK
... solutions to the struggle between the need for rainforest
preservation and the realities of life in the Amazon which demand
that people make use of it.
Killers of renowned anthropologist sentenced in Brazil
Mongabay.com - USA
The men charged with the 2005 killing of University of Vermont anthropology
professor James Petersen in the Amazon rainforest were sentenced
Tuesday to...
Brazil defends ethanol against detractors
Earthtimes.org - USA
... Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took umbrage with remarks this week
that increasing the country's ethanol production would further harm the
Amazon rainforest.
Jul 11
Sentence Issued in Petersen Case
UVM News - Burlington, VT, USA
The men responsible for killing UVM anthropology professor James Petersen
two years ago in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil were sentenced
Tuesday to nearly...
Who will win the neighbours' weed war?
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By August, with the amount of rain we've been having, it will be
looking like a scale model of the Amazon rainforest, with only
30-odd pages of Penny...
Jul 10
$11B Amazon rainforest dam gets initial approval
Mongabay.com - USA
Environmentalists have warned that the project could bring soybean farmers,
illegal gold miners and loggers to remote parts of the Amazon
rainforest...
Unlikely Allies Battle Deforestation in the Amazon
CSRwire.com - USA
by Julie McCarthy (CSRwire) Morning Edition, July 9, 2007 =B7 In Brazil, a
rich carpet of green rolled over the Amazon River city of Santarem
thirty years ago...
Jul 9
Brazil Pres: Country's Ethanol Business Won't Hurt Amazon
CattleNetwork.com - Stanley, KS, USA
However, most of Brazil 's greenhouse gas emissions come from
deforestation and burning in the Amazon rainforest, releasing about
370 million tons of...
Ann Curry and Sting Send A Global 'Message In A Bottle' to NBC's...
NewsBusters - USA
... harmony with their environment and they should be left to live
in harmony with these precious resources, the Amazon rainforest is
precious to all of us.
McDonald's bolsters green credentials with recycled biodiesel
Mongabay.com - USA
... giant was also quick to respond to accusations from Greenpeace
that it was using animal feed derived from soybeans grown in the Amazon
rainforest.
Jul 8
Rainforest Communities Send Message to the World: Save Yasuni...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA
The Yasuni images form part of several Live Earth events focusing attention
on the Ecuadorian Amazon: -- A public service broadcast narrated by
Martin Sheen...
Brazil, Peru to cooperate on Amazon rainforest protection
Forest NewsWatch.com - Montreal,QC,Canada
Brazil and Peru will make joint efforts to protect the Amazon
forest, said a statement issued by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva's office on...
Caigua a new cholesterol herb
WebWire - Atlanta, GA, USA
Different indigenous groups of the Amazon rainforest have used
preparations of this herb as a heart tonic for hundreds of years. In a 1995
study by Gustavo...
Jul 7
Trudie Styler on the suffering of Ecuadorean tribes
Daily Mail - UK
The Rainforest Foundation Fund, which I co-founded with my husband
Sting, has pledged to work with Ecuador's indigenous people to bring
clean water to this ...
Jul 6
Guyana Scrutinizes Alternative Healers
Forbes - NY, USA
Herbs from the rainforestnear the English-speaking country's
borders with Venezuela and Brazil have been used to treat ailments ranging
from snakebites to ...
VBS at Cairo Baptist July 22-27
Moberly Monitor Index - Moberly,MO, USA
Come deep into the Amazon Rainforest as the river runners go on
expedition with the One True God at Cairo Baptist Church VBS: Jungle Jaunt.
From the Pacific to the Amazon
Cook County News Herald - Grand Marais,MN, USA
With the canoes secured on a truck to their final destination, a sleepy
town at the edge of the Amazon rainforest, we were ready to begin
our 500-mile ...
Jul 5
Brazil, Peru to cooperate on Amazon rainforest protection
Mathaba.Net - London, UK
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Brazil and Peru will make joint efforts
to protect the Amazonforest, said a statement issued by Brazilian
President Luiz ...
Jul 4
Sugar cane 'slaves' freed in Amazon
Times Online - UK
An anti-slavery patrol freed more than 1000 workers from a sugar cane
plantation hidden in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's biggest
rescue operation of ...
Hundreds March in Ecuadorian Amazonto Protest Chevron's Delay ...
Common Dreams (press release) - Portland,ME, USA
The fact that there is no clean drinking water in this area of the
rainforest is criminal. The men, women, children and elders gathered
here today are ...
Fremont: Teens find service, soccer in rainforest
The Grand Rapids Press - Grand Rapids,MI, USA
By Andy Hamilton FREMONT -- Fremont Middle School students knew a 10-day
trip to the Amazon rainforest in Peru would be filled with wonders
-- boat rides on ...
Butterfly's DNA may alter Ice Age data
Science Daily (press release) - USA
full story Why The Amazon Rainforest Is So Rich In Species (December
5, 2005) -- Tropical areas of south and central America such as the
Amazon rainforest ...
Jul 3
BC environmentalist loses battle with brain cancer
Globe and Mail - Canada
Since then, she coined the phrase "Brazil of the North" to describe how
logging in BC's temperate rainforest was comparable to logging
of the Amazon...
Slave workers freed from Brazilian plantation
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow, UK
The men and women freed were held in overcrowded warehouses in the
rainforest. The estate owner used a method frequent in Brazil - he
sold the workers ...
Support Ecuador's Milestone No-to-Oil-Exploration Proposal
Upside Down World - Hartwick, NY, USA
But under the rainforest, a reserve of oil is hidden, a reserve that
has been calculated to bring Ecuador an income of some 700 million dollars
a year for ...
BC environmentalist Colleen McCrory passes away after battle with ...
News1130 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Since then, she coined the phrase "Brazil of the North" to
describe how logging in BC's temperate rainforest was comparable
to logging of the Amazon...
Jul 2
The last frontier
Manila Bulletin - Philippines
... to the Amazonbehemoth of Brazil. It is even diminutive
compared to the mountain ranges of Sierra Madre. But this one is no
ordinary rainforest.
Authorities bust multi-million dollar Amazonlogging ring
Mongabay.com - USA
Brazilian authorities have busted a logging ring that used fake permits to
cut 500000 trees in the Amazon rainforest, reports Reuters.
...
Forest disturbance reduces biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
Two new studies in the Amazon rainforest show that plantation
forests and second-growth forests have lower species counts for
butterflies, reptiles...
Jul 1
McDonald's to power trucks with cooking oil
Financial Times - London, England, UK
A year ago, after a sustained campaign by Greenpeace, McDonald's agreed
to stop using soya from newly deforested land in the Amazon
rainforest in Brazil.
Power of the brand fires up big breakfast
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... varieties: plain pomegranite, or with added blueberry, raspberry
or acai berry, grown in the Amazon rainforest and claimed to be rich
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