Apr 30

Greenpeace stops Amazon soya entering Europe
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... giant Cargill from unloading a shipment of Amazon soya in Amsterdam port, to protest against the destruction of huge tracts of the Amazon rainforestto grow ...

Apr 29

Online Edition — Grinnell College
Grinnell College The Scarlet & Black - Iowa,USA
... David Campbell, Biology, has been working in the Amazon rainforestsince the early 1970s and served on the Project's board several years ago. ...

Apr 28

Read Flannery's book on climate change and make up your own mind
Parksville Qualicum News - BC, Canada
... points to three possible, individual or collective looming disasters — the collapse of the Gulf Stream, the destruction of the Amazon rainforestand the ...

Get Hot Prices to Brazil Even in Their Winter: Air and Five Nights ...
Frommers - USA
... Visit Manaus, Amazon River and Rainforest, Novo Airao, Lake Acajatuba and Rio de Janeiro Enjoy rainforestwalks with a naturalist to observe the exquisite ...

Expo Showcased Best of Natural, Organic Products
NPIcenter (press release) - Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
... Living Channel. Kilham talked about his travels to the Amazon rainforestand his encounters with the indigenous cultures. He was ...

Travel by: Various through August 2006
MSNBC - USA
... To experience untouched wilderness, there's no place more incredible than the Amazon rainforest. The 1.2-billion-acre region of ...

Farmer: Nun's Support For Rainforest Got Her Killed
TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA
... De Cunha said he hired the two gunmen on behalf of two ranchers, who had planned to log a disputed patch of the Amazon rainforest. ...
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Apr 27

The Brazilian Amazon How green was my valley
Economist (subscription) - UK
... In the year to last August, 19,000km 2 of rainforest were destroyed, almost a ... Last year's lower rate of deforestation means that the Amazon lost a Kuwait-sized ...

Chevron CEO Blasted By Amazon Residents Over Ecuador Disaster
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Criollo, of the near-extinct Cofan people in the Ecuadorian Amazon, spoke at ... is accused of dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic waste in the rainforest. ...
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Farmer gets 18 years in killing of nun from Ohio
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
BELEM, Brazil - An Amazon farmer pleaded guilty Wednesday to hiring the gunmen in the ... of her opposition to their plans to log a disputed patch of rainforest. ...
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Crane opens up forest canopy
BBC News - UK
... Crucially, the Daintree Rainforest has the same levels of diversity as in Borneo or Peru. ... "They call them 'green ocean clouds' in the Amazon. ...

How green got posh
New Statesman - London,England,UK
... need any eco financial assistance. He recently snapped up 400,000 acres of Amazon rainforestfor £8m. True, he has pledged to set ...

Apr 26

Bungle in the Jungle
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
... Big Oil has been pushing its pipelines into the Amazon rainforestfrontier since the 1960s. Nowadays, prompted by high oil prices ...

Down to Earth Down to Us
PlanetSave.com - Portland,ME,USA
... The Amazon rainforestis a valuable carbon sink and plays a key ecological role in contributing to maintaining a stable climate by generating thousands of ...

Oil firm abandons road project for Amazon rainforestpark in ...
Mongabay.com - USA
... to build an access road into Yasuni National Park, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. ... project, concerned that it would open the park's biodiverse rainforestto settlers ...
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Brazil Farmer Pleads Guilty in Nun's Death
Houston Chronicle - United States
BELEM, Brazil — An Amazon farmer charged in the killing of American nun and rainforestdefender Dorothy Stang pleaded guilty Wednesday and said two ranchers ...
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Apr 25

With Enron as Backdrop, Chevron Faces Mounting Corporate ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Representatives of Amazon Watch have filed ... Emergildo Criollo, a rainforestleader of the Cofan indigenous group, plans to confront O'Reilly at the meeting. ...
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Goldman awards environmental prize to six international ...
SanFranciscoSentinel.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... TarcÃsio Feitosa da Silva of Altamira, Brazil, led a successful campaign to protect 240,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest and exposed illegal logging ...
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Capitalism with a Conscience
Utne Reader Online - USA
... leaves and defecates styrofoam "whopper" burgers called attention to rainforestdamage caused ... 2D was, reports Graydon, "ripped from the heart of the Amazon.". ...

Apr 24

Petrobras Abandons Plans for Oil Road in Ecuadorian Amazon Park
Environment News Service - USA
... of oil concessions throughout the Amazon, hopefully this will set a critical precedent," said Finer. "No new oil access roads through primary rainforest."

Raytheon Launches New Security System to Protect Airport ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... solutions, which includes projects such as the System for Vigilance of the Amazon that protects 2 million square miles of Brazilian Amazon rainforest; US-VISIT ...

Macho Men and State Capitalism - Is Another World Possible?
Infoshop News - USA
... world is not posible without the knowledge of indigenous cultures that have lived sustainably within the mega biodiversity that is the Amazon rainforest. ...

PERU: Isolated Indians' land protected
Survival International - Paris,USA
The Peruvian government has created a new reserve in the Amazon rainforest, protecting the lands of the isolated Isconahua Indians and several other indigenous ...

'Eco-travel' sites are right around the corner
Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA
... Dear EarthTalk: It seems like the Amazon rainforest is not in the news nearly as much as it used to be. Have the environmental problems there been resolved?

Apr 22

Activists: Malaysia Rainforest Threatened
Houston Chronicle - United States
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A 130 million-year-old tropical rainforest in Malaysia is under ... and conserve these forests, which are older than the Amazon and the ...
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Apr 21

HEAD GIRL ANNA'S HOPING TO CASH IN ON PERU TRIP
Mid Sussex Today - Sussex,UK
... ENTERPRISING Anna Bulbeck is hoping for a windfall to help her on her way to the adventure of a lifetime in the Amazon rainforest. ...

Apr 19

Ariane Janér:
EcoClub.com
... Given that Manaus is at the heart of the world's lungs, the vast Amazon rainforest, is this development worrying for sustainable tourism? What is wrong? ...

Apr 17

Nature Waits For Cross-Border Sanctuaries To Catch On
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Prague,Czech Republic
... rainforest. And in the Amazon rainforest, South American governments are working to link national parks and Indian reservations. ... 

Apr 13

Keeping it green in Brazil
TravelBite.co.uk - London,UK
... Perhaps the most notable green space in Brazil is the enormous Amazon Rainforest. The World Heritage Site is easily reached with ...

Apr 11

Chris Kilham
Common Ground.ca - Canada
... Now, it's mostly developed, and instead of virgin Amazon rainforest, it's citrus plantations and pineapple. It's a mess. Some things I'll share with you. ... 

Apr 10

Greenpeace: McDonald's harming the Amazon
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
Greenpeace on Thursday said McDonald's was fueling Amazon rainforest destruction by using soybeans grown in the region as feed for chickens that end up ...

Soy suppliers accused of rainforestdestruction
FoodProductionDaily.com - Montpellier,France
... and a handful of major food ingredient suppliers have been implicated by a leading environmental campaigner in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. ...

Apr 09

Greenpeace Links McDonald's With Amazon Destruction
Environment News Service - USA
LONDON, UK, April 6, 2006 (ENS) - Greenpeace today accused McDonald's of destroying the Amazon rainforest.

Apr 08

The 7,000km journey that links Amazon destruction to fast food
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... largest food companies and commodity traders, including McDonald's in the UK, are driving illegal and rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest, according to ...

Greenpeace accuses McDonald's of destroying the Amazon rainforest
Mongabay.com - USA
... soybeans grown in the Amazon Basin of Brazil. Thanks to a new variety of soybean developed by Brazilian scientists to flourish in rainforest climate, soybean ...
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The 7,000km Journey That Links Amazon Destruction To McDonald's ...
Treehugger - New York,NY,USA
... There are however several steps in the food chain before they arrive at the conclusion that McDonalds is to blame for the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. ...

Apr 06

Greenpeace accuses McDonald's on rainforest
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... was fueling the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using soybeans grown in the region as feed for chickens that end up served in the fast-food chain's ...
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Apr 05

Ethnic cleansing in Colombian Amazon
World War 4 Report - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... the last nomadic indigenous group in Colombia, including 27 children, arrived at the town of San José of the Guaviare, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. ...

Apr 03

MEDIA ALERT: Ashoka Brings Together Global Finalists to Introduce ...
SocialFunds.com - USA
... Sustainable Management of the Brazilian Amazon) purchases organic, fair trade, and sustainably wild harvested Açaí Palmberry fruits in the Amazon Rainforest. ...

Camisea project dependent on environment
United Press International - USA
... natural gas project is seeking loans of up to $400 million to build a plant that will liquefy gas extracted from the Amazon rainforest, increasing Peruvian ...

Apr 02

Eden team plan an aquatic heaven
The Sunday Times - UK
... Glass tunnels will lead visitors through freshwater habitats from the Amazon rainforest, the African Rift Valley and the Mekong Delta, under a vast heated ...