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Mar 30
Pledges Safeguard Heart of Borneo, Far-Flung Island Nations
Environment News Service - USA
... the ministerial segment of the meeting on Sunday, Brazilian
President Inacio da Lula Silva pledged to expand protected areas in the
Amazon rainforest by five ...
Brazil Proud of Rainforest Protection Achievements
CRI - Beijing,China
... Brazilian environment officials said Wednesday the country had
successfully protected some 80 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest,
meeting the agreed ...
Mar 28
Brazil to protect Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
... 1990s. Scientists warned last week that 40 percent of the Amazon
rainforest could be lost by 2050 due to agricultural expansion.
Mar 27
Fairtrade nuts reach UK despite Amazon floods
People & the Planet - London,UK
The brazil nuts are from the Coinacapa nut gatherers co-operative in the
Amazon Rainforest and were the first Fairtrade nuts on sale
in UK supermarkets when ...
Brazil stands to lose more than 40% of rainforest
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
Unless Brazil enforces existing conservation laws, it will lose more than
40% of its Amazon rainforest by 2050, say scientists on
the Science and Development ...
Mar 25
40 percent of the Amazon could be grassland by 2050
Mongabay.com - USA
Scientists today warned that 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest
could be lost by 2050 due to agricultural expansion unless strict measures
are taken to ...
Mar 24
Surprise: Rainforest Grows Faster When It's Dry
FOX News - USA
Most plants do their growing during the rainy season and stall out when
it's dry. But in much of the Amazon rainforest, dry
spells bring on growth spurts. ...
Amazon rainforest grows fastest during dry season
Mongabay.com - USA
The Amazon rainforest puts on its biggest growth spurt during
the dry season, according to new research. "Most of the vegetation
...
Can we save the Amazon rainforest?
ZDNet - USA
... should be possible to save a million square kilometers of rainforest
by 2050 ... without opposition, two more million square kilometers
of the Amazon forest will ...
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Amazon rainforest facing savannah threat
Green Consumer Guide - UK
A new review of the Amazon rainforest by conservation group
WWF has claimed that the region could be turned into savannah by deforestation
and climate change ...
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Mar 23
Theater, Dance & Film
TheStorygroup.com - GA,USA
... “Children’s Show.†Adventure abounds in the heart of the
jungle with more than 30 exotic plants and animals in the Amazon
rainforest. ...
My Own Private Rainforest
Science Now - Washington,DC,USA
Every year, more and more swaths of Amazonian rainforest are cut
down to make ... The new model predicts future deforestation across
the entire Amazon basin given ...
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Climate change a threat to Amazon rainforest, warns WWF
Forest Certification Watch (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Curitiba, Brazil - Climate change and deforestation could convert the majority
of the Amazon rainforest into savannah, with massive impacts
on the world’s ...
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Mar 22
The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million ...
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Economic and political forces are rapidly transforming the forests of the
Amazon basin, precipitating one of the world's greatest environmental
crises. ...
Without protection, Amazon rainforest faces huge loss: scientists
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
About 40 per cent of the rainforest in the Amazon could be
destroyed by 2050 unless Brazil adds measures to protect trees on private
land, scientists say. ...
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Amazon rainforest grows best in dry season
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
TUCSON: University of Arizona scientists say they've made a surprising
discovery: the undisturbed Amazon rainforest grows best
during the dry season. ...
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Amazon could turn into Savannah, WWF warns
People & the Planet - London,UK
Climate change and deforestation could convert the majority of the Amazon
rainforest into Savannah, with massive impacts on the world's
biodiversity and climate ...
Mar 21
Climate change a threat to Amazon rainforest, warns WWF
WWF International - Gland,Switzerland
Curitiba, Brazil – Climate change and deforestation could convert the
majority of the Amazon rainforest into savannah, with massive
impacts on the world’s ...
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Helping hands
Exeter News-Letter - Exeter, NH
... They have made belts and earrings to sell at the Yuletide Fair,
purchased a piece of the Amazon rainforest to preserve,
brought personal hygiene supplies for ...
Amazon rainforest grows best in dry season
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... as the rains stop and you start to enter a dry period, the Amazon
becomes alive ... says the finding holds true only for the undisturbed
portion of the rainforest. ...
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Maps Show Diverse, Widespread Human Pressures on Brazilian Amazon ...
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
Half of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is under pressure
from an array of human activities, according to figures released in unison
with a report by the World ...
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Mar 20
NEWS IN BRIEF
Evangelical Times - England,UK
... The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at twice
the rate previously estimated, according to new research. The destruction
is leaving ...
Are we winning the race to stop biodiversity loss?
WWF International - Gland,Switzerland
... to conserve 22 million hectares of inter-connected equatorial
rainforest in Borneo ... the second largest area of tropical
forest in the world after the Amazon. ...
Mar 19
Surviving the Amazon
Jam! Showbiz - Canada
... Perhaps it was luck, or something more powerful, but after 20
days in the thick of the rainforest, Ghinsberg was rescued by Wallace,
who had hired a guided ...
It's my rainforest now. No logging
The Sunday Times - UK
... his office in London’s Mayfair, it is a 12-hour journey by
air and road before he can view his 400,000-acre plot in the heart of
the Amazon rainforest.
Mar 18
Surviving the Amazon
Jam! Showbiz - Canada
Forget Richard Hatch -- Yossi Ghinsberg knows what it's really like to survive.
It's my rainforest now. No logging
The Sunday Times - UK
When millionaire businessman Johan Eliasch decides to head for his
country estate, it involves a slightly longer trek than a drive to the
Cotswolds.
Mar 17
Wales used to be a tropical jungle - honest!
ic Wales - United Kingdom
Scientists have uncovered a fossil forest under a Welsh steelworks,
which gives a glimpse of how Wales looked as a tropical jungle millions
of years ago.
Supernatural by Graham Hancock - (Random House)
Daily News - KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Hancock's quest to discover the truth about the influences that gave
birth to the modern human mind and to the birth of religion and art,
takes him on a journey of adventure to the art of prehistoric caves and
the Amazon rainforest...
Feathered visitors entertain and enlighten Tollesboro elementary students
Ledger Independent - Maysville, KY
TOLLESBORO — A high-pitched laugh echoed around the room as students at
Tollesboro Elementary School filed into the gymnasium Tuesday morning.
FEATURE-Brazil grapples with jungle piracy dilemma
Reuters AlertNet - London
SAO PAULO, Brazil, March 15 (Reuters) - In 1999, a young Brazilian
botanist named Eliana Rodrigues dug through forests in an ambitious
project with Krao Indians to collect and identify 400 tropical plants
and berries they use as medicine.
Mar 14
Department of Homeland Security Allowing Illegal Mahogany Imports, Say Native Peruvians and U.S. Conservation Group
Common Dreams (press release) - Portland, ME
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security and two other U.S.
agencies are illegally allowing contraband Peruvian mahogany to enter
the United States...
'I Shouldn't Be Alive' tells you how to stay alive
Vancouver Sun (subscription) - Vancouver, British Columbia
The human instinct for survival has confounded the experts for ages,
but for Yossi Ghinsberg, an adventure traveler lost and disoriented in
the Amazon rainforest of Bolivia for more than 30 days, it became more
than an academic exercise.
FINANCE-PERU: Pipeline Rupture Prompts "Overdue" Audit
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
WASHINGTON — Recent measures announced by the Inter-American
Development Bank (IDB) to correct persistent gas leaks from a
controversial pipeline in the Amazon rainforest that has ruptured five
times since its inception in 2004 do not go far enough to help protect
the highly valuable bio-diverse area...
Mar 12
Mar 11
Art for the Amazon
Bradenton Herald - FL
EAST MANATEE - Trail mix in a Dixie cup and a bottle of water were provided to those who ventured into the rainforest.
Mar 10
Fla. Museum spring break camps lead k-5 students on outdoor ...
University of Florida - Gainesville,Florida,USA
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lace up your boots. Spray on your bug repellent.
And prepare for a weeklong adventure of animal tracking, jungle
exploration and science discoveries.
Tell Lula: "Save the Amazon"
Greenpeace UK - UK
The Brazilian president is in the UK on a state visit, so take the opportunity
to tell him to end the destruction in the Amazon rainforest.
We did.
Got to move?
Green Futures - London, UK
Over 44% of commuters say rush hour travelling is the biggest stress in their lives.
Mar 9
BBC's `Serious' shows a big hit
Toronto Star - Canada
The
latest in a line of "Serious" shows made by the BBC, Serious Amazon is
a reality show that follows eight teens into the Peruvian Amazon region
and captures three weeks of their difficulties for our viewing
enjoyment....
Creative accounting for facts
Spiked - London, UK
Statistics seem to be everywhere these days. From high street sales to the latest scare stories, numbers fill the news.
Feast for bookworms
Isle of Wight County Press - Newport
SCHOOLS across the Island enjoyed a range of literary activities to celebrate World Book Day and Book Week.
Mar 8
USAID $50 Million May Entice Conservationists to Violent Amazon
Environment News Service - USA
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
is offering an initial $50 million in grants over the next five years
to help preserve biodiversity in the Amazon Basin.
Communicate.com Inc.: Brazil Travel Website Launched at www.Brazil ...
TMCnet - USA
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Communicate.com Inc. (OTCBB:CMNN) is
pleased to announce that its subsidiary, FrequentTraveller.com Inc.
(FTI), has launched its flagship travel website, www.Brazil.com.
Brazil clears law on Amazon wood logging
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
BRASILIA — Brazil has approved a law granting licences for wood logging
in publicly owned sections of the Amazon rainforest, a move
aimed at halting its destruction.
Sheen to unveil portrait in Dayton
Dayton Daily News - Dayton, OH
Actor Martin Sheen will visit Chaminade-Julienne High School today to
unveil a portrait of Sister Dorothy Stang, a nun killed last year in
Brazil.
Camisea pipeline leaks in rainforest of Peru
Mongabay.com - USA
The Camisea gas pipeline in the Peruvian Amazon has leaked for the fifth time in 18 months...
Evidence of early corn cultivation uncovered in Peru
Mongabay.com - USA
Maize, better known as corn in some parts of the world, was cultivated
by people living in the Peruvian Andes of South America about 1,000
years earlier than previously believed...
Frog survival 101: Fake a mean look
MSNBC - USA
For nonpoisonous frogs, the trick to not becoming dinner is to look poisonous — but not too poisonous...
Mar 7 Protecting indigenous land rights protects forest
Guerrilla News Network - USA
A new study in Conservation Biology challenges the assumption that
keeping forest land uninhabited is the best way to prevent
deforestation.
Forest fire
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Aa the Queen's carriage trundled down the Mall towards Buckingham
Palace yesterday morning, Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, could
afford to sink back into the velvet cushions...
Mar 7
Forest fire
Scotsman - United Kingdom
AS the Queen's carriage trundled down the Mall towards Buckingham
Palace yesterday morning, Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, could
afford to sink back into the velvet cushions...
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Mar 6
President
Lula: The boy from Brazil is back
Independent
- London
President Lula, who arrives in Britain today for a state visit, has
survived a corruption scandal and austere economic circumstances to
ride high in the polls...
Chevron
Faces Human Rights Questions In Ecuador Lawsuit, Warns ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY
SAN FRANCISCO — Chevron faces serious questions
about its human rights record in Ecuador's rainforest following a disturbing
pattern of threats and corruption in a landmark environmental trial...
Mar 3
Paul
Winter brings his Grammy Award-winning sound to the PAC
Newport News Times - Newport, OR
The Power Auto Group and the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts presents
Paul Winter in concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 9 on the Alice
Silverman stage at the Newport Performing Arts Center.
Brazil
could require banks to veto loans to environmentally ...
PlanetSave.com - Portland, ME
RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian government could require private banks
to veto loans for projects that don't have a government enviromental
license, Environment Minister Marina Silva said Thursday.
Mar 2
From the Amazon
to Pecan Street
Fort Worth Weekly
- Fort Worth, TX
It was nearly dark when the botanist and his companions found the
loggers, hunkered down around campfires on a broad beach beside a small
river in the Amazon rainforest.
Jungle
Marathon 2006
Eventrate.com -
UK
Places are filling up fast for the 2006 edition of the Jungle Marathon- a 100km or 200km run in stages in the Brazilian Jungle.
Brazil
opens chunks of Amazon forest to logging
ABC Online - Australia
Brazil's president has approved a measure offering huge chunks of the
Amazon jungle to timber companies that comply with tough restrictions
aimed at preserving the world's largest rainforest. (Related story: Brazil
OKs Amazon logging, move greeted by environmentalists)
South
America unveils pipeline
BBC
News - UK
Officials from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela are meeting in Caracas
to lay the foundations for a jointly-financed gas pipeline. (Related
story: Pipeline
in South America)
Imported
food trade began '4,000 years ago'
Telegraph.co.uk - UK
The importing of foods to stock supermarket shelves has been going on for thousands of years, archaeologists have found.
Rights
of Isolated Indigenous Communities Violated by Amazon ...
IPS - Belgium
LIMA — A report by the Office of the People's Defender in Peru states
that the basic rights of indigenous communities living near the Camisea
gas field have been affected...
Mar 1
Surviving the Amazon
Inside Bay Area - Oakland, CA
It was probably not the most promising way to begin an Amazon
adventure, but there we were, anchored offshore, directly on the
equator at the Macapa pilot station in Brazil, about 100 miles from the
mouth of the Amazon...
First
Amazon-Andean crop plant transfer and corn processing in ...
EurekAlert - Washington, DC
Mouthwatering Peruvian cuisine like causa (mashed yellow potatoes
layered with avocado and seafood) and carapulcra (dried potatoes and
pork/chicken in peanut sauce) combine food crops from Amazon basin
rainforests and Andean highlands.
Amazonian
Terra Preta Can Transform Poor Soil Into Fertile
Science Daily - USA
The search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have
yielded pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of
gold mine: some of the globe's richest soil...
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