GUYANA: From Lush Jungle to Muddy Moonscape
IPS - Italy
It pointed to very lax government controls in the country’s Amazon region, noting severe human rights abuses and devastating environmental damage “Medium- …
ECUADOR: Support Grows for Letting Sleeping Amazon Oil Lie
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
The proposal would ban commercial extraction of oil in the ITT in perpetuity, and explicitly recognise the right of traditional usage by indigenous people, …
Devotion to beauty paying off for Brazil
International Herald Tribune - France
For years, the indigenous peoples of Amazonia have celebrated fruits for their special qualities. The guaraná berry, for example, is known as a stimulant. …
A methane battle is brewing
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Critics say that Shell badly mishandled indigenous interests in the region, for which Saro-Wiwa was an outspoken champion. A Shell Canada representative …
Last Night’s TV
Times Online - UK
These are the touching last words of a diminutive indigenous babe from the northwest corner of the Amazon basin. She is one of that remote region’s …
Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado
Mongabay.com - USA
The cerrado is now disappearing more than twice as the rate as the neighboring Amazon rainforest, according to a Brazilian expert on the savanna ecosystem. …
SmartWood misled US local authority over FSC timber
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
… of the Amazon Frontiers Research Centre, had told SmartWood that “Forestal Venao is infamous in Ucayali, Peru for their indifference to laws, indigenous …
