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NEWS FOCUS: Plastic in the ocean
Earth’s oceans are full of plastic. Vast plastic ‘islands’ hundreds of nautical miles long and ten metres deep bob in the Pacific ocean, affecting fish, birds and mammals. |
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ARTICLE: Green Valentine
It’s easy to be both romantic and green. Whether you want a card and some roses for a loved one or something more individual the Ecologist guide to a green Valentine’s can help. |
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IN DEPTH: Detergents
Detergents play a large and often ignored part of our lives. We use them daily to clean our houses, dishes and ourselves. Yet many of the components found in many of them are damaging to the environment and detrimental to our health. |
Ecuador’s government investigates report of attack on Indians in …
International Herald Tribune – France
Yasuni, like much of Ecuador’s Amazon basin, is rich in mahogany, cedar and other trees that yield valuable lumber. The jungle area also holds an estimated …
Ecuador hunts for ‘massacre’ bodies
MWC News – Vancouver,Canada
… an army commander in the Amazon province of Orellana. Enrique Eguime, an indigenous leader, had said the massacre took place in eastern Orellana when …
RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Recovering Guaraní Traditions
IPS – Italy
… as is more than evident in the Amazon, and have also pushed the Guaraní into a corner in Mato Grosso do Sul. The Dourados Indigenous Territory is the …
Rights group: Indians attacked by gunmen in Ecuador’s Amazon jungle
International Herald Tribune – France
… a group of tribesmen living in an Amazon nature reserve were attacked by gunmen, leaving several casualties, an indigenous rights group said Wednesday. …
Ecuador investigates Indian massacre reports
Reuters – USA
QUITO, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Ecuadorean authorities combed swaths of the Amazon jungle on Thursday looking for victims of a reported massacre of Indians by …
Indigenous Economics: Ancient Knowledge Inspires Economic Reform …
Canadian National Newspaper – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
I mentioned that in the United States Native Americans control 5% land, in Canada it is 22%, and in the Amazon, 33%. Globally, Indigenous Peoples are 5% of …
Intel Brief: Peru civil unrest
ISN – Zurich,Switzerland
… as well as food shortages, over half of the nation lives in poverty, specifically in the rural, indigenous sectors such as the Amazon jungle region. …
MONDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 2008
Earth Negotiations Bulletin – New York,NY,USA
THE INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS FORUM ON BIODIVERSITY said the establishment of PAs on indigenous communities’ lands and territories violates indigenous …
Flooding in Bolivia: Oxfam will provide humanitarian aid to 20.000 …
ReliefWeb (press release) – Geneva,Switzerland
… urban and rural areas, mainly indigenous communities, threatened by the flooding that is affecting the Department of Beni, in the North-eastern Bolivia. …
The great green land grab
Guardian Unlimited – UK
John Eliasch, the Swedish-born businessman chosen by Gordon Brown to be his forest advisor, bought himself 400000 acres of the Amazon rainforest for £8m in …
To save a forest
Grand Forks Herald (subscription) – Grand Forks,ND,USA
The challenge in the Amazon became clear again in late January, when Brazil’s government met in emergency session to deal with a sudden burst of …
Hunting up cures: UMass ‘explorer in residence’ roams globe in …
Daily Hampshire Gazette (subscription) – Northhampton,MA,USA
… secrets of indigenous medicines. Over the past 20 years, Kilham, 55, has brought herbal medicines from places such as China, the Amazon, Africa, India, …
The green gold of the Amazon
ANBA – Sao Paulo,Brazil
São Paulo – With the certainty that green may generate profit without being destroyed, Ouro Verde Amazônia (Green Gold Amazon) makes organic products …
Anti-Valentine’s gifts
Cincinnati Enquirer – Cincinnati,OH,USA
Found at Indigenous in O’Bryonville: her 11½-inch square clay tile – HeartAche – a shiny red heart wrapped in thorny vines. A little more pointed is a heart …
Creating a Regional Alternative to Neo-liberalism?
Monthly Review – Herndon,VA,USA
The problem was that the pipeline would have been constructed through parts of the Amazon forest and would have involved the destruction indigenous people’s …
Eight Hot Spots For Volunteer Travel
Forbes – NY,USA
uVolunteer sends travelers to Ecuador to assist people indigenous to the Amazon rainforest with community development, while media and graphic design …
RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation
IPS – Italy
By Mario Osava* CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil, Feb 9 (Tierramérica) – The indigenous peoples of the central-western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul do not look …
SIZWE’S TEST
New York Times – United States
As with many indigenous peoples — I’ve encountered the same belief among Indians in the Amazon — the Xhosa people of Lusikisiki see sickness as a kind of …
