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Breaking news...
June 21
Don't be put off by the name...
guardian.co.uk - UK
In the distance the dense rainforest is cloaked in light cloud.
Baracoa, subject of many Cuban songs, is pretty, with two sea fronts - one,
the Malec=F3n...
June 20
Strategic Forest, Paper & Packaging Sustainability News
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal, QC, Canada
The Congo rainforest is the second largest in the world after the
Amazon and covers an area twice the size of France. It is the second
largest tropical ...
June 19
Brazilian Senate Starts Enquiry on Foreign Ownership of Amazon
Brazzil Magazine - Los Angeles, USA
... announced a fine of US$ 276 million against Gethal for illegal
commercialization and trans portion of noble trees from the Amazon
rainforest region.
June 18
Growing alternatives in the rainforest
BCLocalNews - Victoria, BC, Canada
Recent photos of an "uncontacted tribe" of Amazon Indians on the
border between Peru and Brazil have reminded us once again of how much we
still have to ...
Google Teams Up With Indigenous Tribe To Save Brazilian Rainforest
KTVU.com - San Francisco, CA, USA
BRAZIL -- Google is providing Google Earth software to help a tribe living
in Brazil to map the Amazon rainforest and to show where there is
illegal logging ...
Growing alternatives in the rainforest
Georgia Straight - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola Recent photos of an "uncontacted
tribe" of Amazon Indians on the border between Peru and Brazil
have reminded us once ...
Brazil throws weight behind Amazon soy ban
Reuters UK - UK
Environmentalists called Minc's initiative essential to the protection
of the world's largest rainforest. Deforestation in the region
quickened in the past ...
Landmark Amazon soya moratorium extended
Greenpeace International - Amsterdam, Netherlands
The announcement from soya traders in Brazil to extend a
moratorium on soya expansion, provides hope for the Amazon
rainforest.
Brazilian Soybean Traders Renew Ban on Amazon Crops (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
The agreement, signed during a ceremony in Brasilia today, extends for a
year and aims to curb deforestation in the world's biggest
rainforest.
Saving the rainforest in Africa
BBC News - UK
The forests of the Congo Basin in Africa are regarded as the world's
second most important rainforest ecosystem, after the Amazon.
And like the Amazon...
June 17
Climate, Trees, and People in the Peruvian Amazon: Toward a ...
It's Getting Hot In Here - Washington, DC, USA
However, it's not really the practices of small villages like the ones we
visited that are destroying the rainforest; the farmer we talked to
was going to ...
Spy satellite will monitor illegal logging across six African ...
Independent - London, England, UK
... which ministers hope will rise to =A3250m to prevent the
rainforest suffering the type of deforestation which has depleted
the Amazon's rainforest.
Africa's Congo Basin forest aided by satellite tree-felling survey
Times Online - UK
As the world's second-largest rainforest, the Congo Basin must
be at the heart of our response. "The basin houses a quarter of the
world's rainforest...
Name Gillian Alden.
Huddersfield Examiner - Huddersfield, UK
Trekking in the Amazon rainforest, being completely in the middle of
nowhere with those closest to me. On a personal note, what is your best
quality? ...
June 16
Our diet of destruction
guardian.co.uk - UK
Huge areas of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to satisfy
global demand for soya. But how did this crop and a handful of others come
to dominate our ...
June 14
Ethanol Escapade: Brazil Sugar Producers, Criticized, Seek Sweeter PR
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York, NY, USA
The Amazon is the hotter issue. Having ratified the Kyoto Protocol
and taken up biofuels, Europeans don't want to see the world's largest
rainforest ...
Brazil bridles at Eliasch bid to save Amazon
First Post - Cheltenham, England, UK
The "only way to save the rainforest is you have to make it
more valuable standing than logged," he said. =A335 on half an acre of
rainforest in Brazil or ...
June 13
Koreans had a point in protest against beef deal
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Creation of beef pastures is the key cause of worldwide deforestation,
including the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A beef-based
diet requires more ...
Fragile Planet
Guardian Weekly - UK
Many tribes in the Amazon rainforest struggle to defend their
territories against industrial mining and agriculture. Fiona Watson met
members of tribes ...
Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants
Mongabay.com - USA
The sanctuary is based on an initiative launched by local indigenous
communities with the support of the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT),
an innovative NGO ...
June 12
A Farewell to Isolation
Washington Post - United States
They have been able to preserve their isolation and culture until now,
because the Amazon is so vast and 80% of its rainforest area
is still preserved.
Kayapo tribe gets trust fund for Amazon protection
Mongabay.com - USA
... (CI) have established a trust fund to support conservation and
sustainable development initiatives by indigenous Kayap=F3 groups in the
Amazon rainforest.
Brazil levies $279 million fine for illegal Amazon logging
Mongabay.com - USA
... Brazilian politicians for its intention to buy up and protect
large tracts of Amazon rainforest for the purpose of selling carbon
credits to consumers.
June 10
Brazil slaps large fine on lumber company owned by Swedish ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien, Austria
=A9 AP SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Officials say a lumber company owned by
Swedish sporting goods magnate Joahn Eliasch has been fined the equivalent
of nearly ...
Brazil slaps large fine on lumber company owned by Swedish ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... and co-founder of Cool Earth, an environmental activist group
based in Britain that seeks to buy portions of the rain forest for
preservation purposes.
June 9
Brazilian Amazon Communities Make Money Saving the Rainforest
Brazzil Magazine - Los Angeles, USA
Three hundred families associated with the Brazilian Cooperative of
Ecological Farmers of the Amazon Portal (Cooperagrepa) is
re-establishing ecological ...
Amazon beef producer creates eco-certified meat product with help ...
Mongabay.com - USA
"This brand will distinguish good land stewards from those who are
simply tearing down the Amazon rainforest without regard for the
environmental impact," ...
June 8
Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet
The Province - Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Brazilian government scrambled to divert criticism of its failure to
protect the Amazon rainforest after the country's space agency
revealed that a ...
Swedish tycoon's firm fined for destroying Amazon rainforest
Mangalorean.com - Mangalore, India
The Amazon rainforest in the northern part of South America is the
biggest forest in the world and is also the last big space covered with
tropical plants ...
Twilight for the Forest People
New York Times - United States
INTRUSION Brazilian officials recently discovered this encampment in the
Amazon rainforest during an aerial search for indigenous tribes near
the border ...
Firm rejects Amazon logging fine: source
AFP -
He is also the founder of a British-based organisation called Cool Earth
whose aim is to find sponsors to buy up Amazon rainforest in order
to protect it.
June 7
Brazil and the Amazon Welcome to our shrinking jungle
Economist - UK
FROM the Amazon last month, Brazil's Indian agency released
aerial pictures of painted men with bows and arrows who have had little or
no contact with ...
Looking into the rainforest and seeing salvation
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... who has studied the Amazon since 1988. "But it
doesn't have to be." The tribe in question lives in Brazil's
rainforest, near the border with Peru.
Rush Is On To Open 'New Tribe' Restaurant
The Spoof (satire) - UK
New York, NY - In the wake of the startling discovery in the Brazilian
rainforest of what may be the last uncontacted indigenous tribe, a
consortium of ...
Study: Over 8% of Brazil's Amazon region illegally owned
Xinhua - China
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 6 (Xinhua) -- More than eight percent of Brazil's
Amazon rainforest region, totaling some 42 million hectares, is not
legally owned...
Johan Eliasch, Gordon Brown consultant, fined for illegal Amazon ...
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
A company belonging to a Swedish businessman with close links to Gordon
Brown has been fined $137 million for illegally cutting down Amazon
rainforest...
Brazil Protects Vast New Areas of Amazon Rainforest
Environment News Service - USA
Brazil was attacked for using so much of its land for biofuels and for
failing to effectively protect the Amazon rainforest. "I felt a
little in the FAO in ...
Swedish tycoon's firm fined 275 mln dlrs for logging in Amazon
AFP -
He is also the founder of a British-based organization called Cool Earth
whose aim is to find sponsors to buy up Amazon rainforest in order
to protect it.
Brazil sets up three more reserves to protect Amazon rainforest
RedOrbit - Dallas, TX, USA
... President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday signed a decree
on the World Environment Day to create three reserves in the Amazon
rainforest region.
June 6
Brazil's Lula announces new Amazon protection
Reuters UK - UK
By Ana Nicolaci da Costa BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva, under pressure over his stewardship of the Amazon
rainforest...
Brazil's Lula announces new Amazon protection
Reuters India - Mumbai, India
... under pressure over his stewardship of the Amazon
rainforest, unveiled plans on Thursday to create three protected
reserves covering an area the size of ...
Brazil to protect more of Amazon
NEWS.com.au - Australia
By Ana Nicolaci da Costa in Brasilia BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva, under pressure over his stewardship of the Amazon
rainforest...
Brazilian government announces new anti-deforestation measures
Xinhua - China
Minc said the soaring prices of soybean and meat have given additional
incentive to the illegal farming invasion and deforestation of the
Amazon.
Brazil to Create `Green Barrier' to Protect Amazon (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
By Andre Soliani and Carolina Matos June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil plans to
create a ``green barrier'' to deter deforestation in the
Amazon and will seize and ...
Worsening Amazon deforestation embarrasses Brazil's govt
AFP -
Brazil's National Space Research Institute, which uses satellites to
calculate how much of the vast rainforest has been destroyed, this
week announced that ...
Brazil to crack down on Amazon cattle invasion
guardian.co.uk - UK
AP foreign By MICHAEL ASTOR AP Writer RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -
Destruction of the Amazon rain forest appears to be on the upswing,
and Brazil's new ...
Peru to protect Amazon tribes
Hostelbookers.com - USA
The move, which will focus predominantly on illegal loggers operating in
the Amazon rainforest, has been described as the "first
positive step" towards ...
Brazil to crack down on Amazon cattle invasion
The Associated Press -
Destruction of the Amazon rain
forest appears to be on the upswing, and Brazil's new environment
minister has wasted no time ...
More Amazon forest could disappear next year
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
The Amazon area lies mainly in Brazil, but parts of it are also in
another eight countries. A fifth of the Amazon rain forest has
already disappeared.
June 5
Time to look at the way we live
Economic Times - Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Twenty years ago, Chico Mendes, the Brazilian environmentalist, spoke of
the ties that bound his local struggle to save the Amazon rainforest
to a global ...
Brazil: Amazon destruction is on the rise
United Press International - USA
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 4 (UPI) -- Brazil's rainforest is being
destroyed at a higher rate this year despite government efforts to curtail
the cutting down of ...
Unconnected: The Isolated Amazon Tribe
FOXNews - USA
by Dr. Keith Ablow Researchers studying the Amazon rainforest in
Brazil recently released aerial photographs of a tribe of men, women and
children who have ...
US, Brazil clash over biofuels while Amazon rainforest dwindles
Los Angeles Times - CA, USA
As the politicians were hurling accusations in Rome, a new Brazilian study
indicates that Amazon rainforest depletion is intensifying. Read
about it here.
June 4
Cleaner air 'threatening' Amazon
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
Cleaner air is threatening the survival of the Amazon rainforest
according to a group of prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists.
...
Illegal Amazon ranchers fined $52.5m
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
... unit of Brazil's government has fined 16 ranchers a total
$US50 million ($52.5 million) for having illegally cleared protected
Amazon rainforest.
New satellite photos show Amazon rainforest shrinking
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
New satellite photographs show
that the destruction of Brazil's fragile Amazon rainforest has
exploded this year...
Amazon Discovery Combines Bulk Herbs like Echinacea Herbs at Great ...
NewsBlaze (press release) - Folsom, CA, USA
Sure, the Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated these statements,
but centuries of human rituals under the lush canopy of the
Rainforest do not ...
0ver 1000 sq km of Amazon rainforest devastated in April
Xinhua - China
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Xinhua) -- About 1123 square kilometers of the
Amazon rainforest were devastated in April, up from 145 square
kilometers in March...
HIPs to help rainforests
Mortgage Solutions - UK
A home information pack company that pledged to help replant an Amazon
rainforest, has handed over its first cheque to pay for new trees.
...
Brazil Launches Large Reforestation Program in Amazon
RedOrbit - Dallas, TX, USA
The project will involve 143 municipalities in Para to consolidate the
state's image as a protector and repairer of the Amazon
rainforest.
Papua New Guinea rainforest destruction
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... making it reasonably clear that's not the case - indeed PNG
is losing its rainforest at rates comparable to that of the Congo
and to that of the Amazon.
June 2
Study reveals bleak future for PNG rainforest
Radio Australia - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The country has the world's third largest tropical rainforest
after the Amazon and the Congo, but the PNG government has allowed
widespread logging.
Satellite images reveal Papua forest destruction
Reuters - USA
Papua New Guinea has the world's third largest tropical
rainforest, after the Amazon and the Congo, and its
government is seeking compensation for ...
The Amazon: The heartbeat of the Earth
Vail Daily News - Vail, CO, USA
Two weeks ago, I was given the opportunity to visit the most massive,
diverse and, in my opinion, most beautiful place on earth: the Amazon
rainforest.
New tribe of indigenous Indians discovered in Brazilian Amazon
Xinhua - China
BRASILIA, May 31 (Xinhua) -- A new tribe of indigenous Indians was found in
the Brazilian state of Acre in the southwest of the Amazon
rainforest region...
June 1
Will the Amazon Be Flooded for a Hydro Dam?
AlterNet - San Francisco, CA, USA
Thousands of miles of the rainforest may be flooded because of dam
likely to cause a dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
Pictures of uncontacted Indian tribe discovered in the Amazon
Mongabay.com - USA
Brazil says illegal loggers from Peru are threatening tribes deep in the
Amazon rainforest. "We did the overflight to show their houses,
to show they are ...
Brazilian Tribes Say Dam Threatens Way of Life
NPR - USA
Indigenous People's Cultural Support Trust Weekend Edition Saturday,
May 31, 2008 =B7 The waters of the Amazon rainforest are fast
becoming ground zero in the ...
Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Discovered in Brazil Rainforest
eFluxMedia - USA
By Ona Zachary Brazil's National Indian Foundation announced the
discovery of a new Indian tribe in the western Amazon rainforest.
...
Survival of a lost rainforest tribe
The Sun - London, UK
The intruder, an aeroplane, had interrupted their daily lives deep in
Brazil's Amazon rainforest. The pictures astonished millions of
people around the ...
Brazil Launches Program to Plant 1 Billion Trees in the Amazon
RedOrbit - Dallas, TX, USA
The Brazilian state of Para announced Friday that it will launch a
reforestation program to plant 1 billion trees by 2013 in the Amazon
rainforest region.
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