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- High cost of losing a native language (Aug 31)
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16449124%255E16947,00.html>
Australian - Australia
Every two weeks or so the last elderly man or woman with full command of a particular language dies.
- ExplorersWeb on the Amazon Queen (Aug 30)
<http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=657>
Mounteverest - New York,NY,USA
This week, ExWeb is heading to Bogota to check up on Captain Gonzales and his Amazon Queen.
- Destruction of Amazon 'slowing' (Aug 27)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4190000/newsid_4190900/4190976.stm>
CBBC newsround (audio) - London,England,UK
The government of Brazil say that the destruction of the Amazon
rainforest has fallen by 50% this year. (Related stories: Less wood for
the trees,
Brazil reports drop in deforestation of Amazon, Amazon
deforestation lower than last year says Brazil, Competing
claims on Brazil's rainforest, Deforestation of the
Brazilian Amazon Cut by Half,
Farming slump credited with Amazon felling lull)
- Brazil's Salgado turns his camera to nature, tribes (Aug 26)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18155223.htm>
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
XINGU INDIAN RESERVATION — Brazilian photographer Sebastiao
Salgado has shown the world the face of poverty, the tragedy of famine...
- 41 killed in Peruvian crash (Aug 25)
<http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-8-2005_pg7_11>
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
LIMA — At least 41 people were killed but 57 survived when
a Peruvian jetliner with 100 people on board crashed in a storm
- Slain nun's family rips Brazil's government (Aug 24)
<http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/24/nun.killed.ap/>
CNN - USA
RIO DE JANEIRO — The family of an American nun killed
trying to protect the Amazon rainforest wrote an open letter to
Brazil's president...
- Results in Ecuador Rainforest Trial Point to Billion-Dollar Liability for Chevron, Says Amazon Watch (Aug 24)
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050824/law056.html?.v=26>
Yahoo News - USA
QUITO, Ecuador — ChevronTexaco, now Chevron Corp (CVX), appears to be
losing ground in the environmental "Trial of the Century" in Ecuador's
rainforest over Texaco's operation...
- Brazil assists Peru in combating malaria (Aug 24)
<http://internacional.radiobras.gov.br/ingles/materia_i_2004.php?materia=236997&q=1&editoria=PO>
Agencia Brasil - Brazil
Manaus — Known as the Vale do Javari Task Force, and coordinated by
Brazil's National Health Foundation (Fundação Nacional de Saúde)
(Funasa), a group of 26 health agents have reduced cases of malaria
- Exploration Of The Amazon (Aug 24)
<http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/aug/article347.html>
Useless-Knowledge.com - USA
Before I had made plans to go to the Amazon, I had talked about it for ten-years.
- Brazil's growth as agicultural giant has cost (Aug 22)
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0822-la_times_amazon.html>
Mongabay.com - USA
Saturday, the Los Angeles Times featured an article on Brazil's drive to become an agricultural giant.
- Vitasti Partners with Leading Manufacturer and Importer Of Acai Berry, Company Positioned for Distribution Globally (Aug 16)
<http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=84061>
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
NEW YORK — Vitasti, Inc. (OTCBB:VITS) (the "Company") announces that it
has entered into an agreement with Sambazon ("SZ") to market SZ's new
proprietary Acai Berry whole food powder...
- Global Development & Environmental Resources Visiting With
Officials in Ecuador Regarding Large-Scale Environmental Cleanup (Aug
17)
<http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=93279>
Market Wire (press release) - USA
LAS VEGAS, NV — Global Development & Environmental Resources,
Inc. (OTC: GDVE) announced today that representatives from the Company
are currently meeting with key Ecuadorian officials in Ecuador's
northern Amazon border...
- Brazil suspects in US man's death on drugs -police (Aug 15)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N151222.htm>
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
SAO PAULO -– Three suspects arrested in connection with the
killing of a U.S. anthropology professor during a robbery were high on
cocaine... (Related stories: Brazilian police say American's killers were drunk, drugged, Police arrest man and two teenagers, Colleagues laud slain teacher, Tragedy in the Amazon, Archeologist dies in robbery after years of risky work, Brazilian police arrest two more in shooting of Vermont professor)
- Brazil to Step Up Efforts to Stop Illegal Logging in Amazon (Aug 9)
<http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=45049>
Bloomberg - USA
Brazil will increase monitoring of logging in the Amazon rainforest and
raise fines for those caught clearing trees... (Related story: Brazil
to crackdown on illegal logging says Environment Minister
<http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0809-amazon.html>)
- Brazilian exchange adventure begins (Aug 9)
<http://www.fairviewpost.com/story.php?id=177158>
Fairview Post - Fairview,Alberta,Canada
Emily Dechant remembers eagerly watching National Geographic movies about the Amazon Rainforest with her father...
- I met the Ashuar people in Peru (Aug 8)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4130000/newsid_4132400/4132438.stm>
CBBC newsround (audio) - London,England,UK
A team from CBBC's Serious Amazon series travelled to the rainforest of Peru to meet the Ashuar...
- Amazonas: Venezuela's Forgotten State, part I (Aug 6)
<http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1516>
Venezuelanalysis.com - Caracas,Venezuela
So this is where the road ends. From Samariapo onwards, the tiny port
about 40 miles south of Puerto Ayacucho, there is no transport by car...
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