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Opera star Florez cooks “Shrimp a la Pavarotti”
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
… ingredients from the desert coast, the Andes mountains and the Amazon basin, along with influences of indigenous, European, Asian and African groups. …

Ecuador’s northern border: the FARC
Latin America Press - Lima,Peru
“The planes crossed the border and fumigated in our territory,” Froilán Canticuz, director of the Awa indigenous community in Mataje, denounced before the …

Terrorist-Supporting Venezuelan Strongman Has Famous Allies
Human Events - Washington,DC,USA
Within days the book had jumped to the top 10 in sales at the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites, and its publisher, Henry Holt, ordered a reprinting. …

First coca crop found in Brazilian rainforest
Guardian - UK
Some 230 indigenous communities, home to 54000 Indians of different ethnicities, have been touched by cocaine, Davi Felix Cecilio, the region’s indigenous …

Celebrity Green Teens Inspire Action
Daily Green - USA
… for Amnesty International on the subjects of the rights of women and indigenous people and petroleum-industry contamination of the Amazon River Basin. …

A Swirl of Foreboding In Mahogany’s Grain
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
… groups say is whittling away the Amazon, endangering isolated indigenous groups and threatening the commercial future of an ever-scarce tree. …

RESOURCEFUL TRAVELER
Chicago Tribune - United States
Brazil is one of the most ethnically diverse countries on the planet, a country of mestizos (white and indigenous Brazilian), cafuzos (an Afro-Brazilian …

 

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Peru to allow Amazon explorations despite protests
Reuters UK - UK
… including the Amazon jungle located some 550 miles east of Peru’s capital, Lima. Indigenous people who have shunned contact with the rest of society are …
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Skoll Foundation Adds Eleven Pioneering Organizations to its …
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
… high quality health care; — training indigenous tribes in the Amazon to use technology to protect millions of acres of rainforest; …

 

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Indigenous Indignation
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA
The government has not released the names of most of the NGOs under investigation, though one accused group, the Amazon Conservation Team, …

Exhibit camps out at aquarium
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston,SC,USA
Stocked with creatures indigenous to the Palmetto State, the 2000-square-foot display opens to the public Saturday for what likely will be a four-year run. …

Nigeria: Odusote, Seriki, Others for Women in ICT Forum
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Today, Seriki is a leading Amazon who has built a legacy around Omatek brand of PCs. Mrs. Seriki is the only female among the managing directors of the four …

Industry-driven road-building to fuel Amazon deforestation
Mongabay.com - USA
Unofficial road-building will be a major driver of deforestation and land-use change in the Amazon rainforest, according to an analysis published in …

That mesquite mystique
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
For our tests, we used an Argentine mesquite from Casa de Fruta, available on Amazon or at www.casadefruta.com. It makes a sort of sense that mesquite is …

Skoll Foundation puts $1M toward indigenous groups, conservation …
Mongabay.com - USA
The Skoll Foundation has awarded the Amazon Conservation Team, an innovative organization the promotes biocultural conservation among indigenous groups in …

Skoll Foundation Adds Eleven Pioneering Organizations to its …
Earthtimes - London,UK
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) - Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotonist, and Liliana Madrigal, a conservationist and crusader for indigenous rights, created ACT in …

Talking Points for March 15th Chevron Action
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Chevron has been charged in a $6 billion lawsuit in which five indigenous groups and 80 Ecuadorian communities are demanding recompense for the dumping of …

Stockwire.com: Speak with other shareholders about: (Pink Sheets …
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The company expects to collect enough indigenous Jatropha seed to produce a minimum of one million gallons of Jatropha oil in 2008. …

Thomasville pharmacist travels the world to study healing methods
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
In 1999, she accompanied Constance Grauds, a pharmacist and natural medicine expert, to Peru where they studied indigenous healing practices with a shaman. …

 

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Latin America: INCB Calls on Peru, Bolivia to Ban Coca Chewing
Drug War Chronicle - Washington,DC,USA
… uses of the coca leaf, which is a key feature of Andean-Amazon indigenous cultures,” said Pien Metaal, a TNI researcher specializing in coca issues. …

We talk to Professor Johannes Lehmann about Bio Char
Beyond Zero Emissions (press release) - Melbourne,Vic,Australia
… were inhabited by indigenous populations before the arrival of the Europeans, which around 1500. The first person to travel down the central Amazon was …

Switching Majors and Values in Ecuador
CU Columbia Spectator - New York,NY,USA
I ended the program with an independent-study program based in an indigenous village in the Amazon. Here, I did policy work for a future World Bank …

 

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Verena’s Volta Grande gold property in Brazil grows 66.7%
The Northern Miner (subscription) - Sudbury,Ontario,Canada
The Volta Grande property is about 60 km southeast of the city of Altamira in northern Brazil, along the southern bank of the Xingú River, a major tributary …

The bones of Colonel Fawcett
By Ciarán
Benedict Allen went to Brazil’s Xingu National Park. North of the country - last bit of rainforest. He was searching for the truth about Colonel Fawcett, his son Jack and and Jack’s friend. They disappeared in 1925 - they were searching …
Ciarán Ryan notebook - http://ctsr.wordpress.com

Two weeks
By boytiger
With a lot of help from yuriy, who sold me some beautiful plants, the tank is looking so beautiful! I’m really happy with it. It’s healthy and clean and thriving. New Additions: Rotala, Pennywort and Xingu Sword. Rawk. Fish to come!! …
the living aquascape - http://boytiger.wordpress.com

Brazil 2009, Xingu Mission, and Thirst Relief
By Preston
We’re so excited that plans continue to move forward for our trip to the Xingu River. Everything is still in the works, but feel free to check out some photos I posted in on the Brazil 2009 Portal page. Also, take a moment to learn a …
a fresh focus - http://afreshfocus.wordpress.com

 

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Ecuador: Protecting Diverse Forests and Peoples
YES! Magazine - Bainbridge Island,WA,USA
Now, though, the ITT oil fields—located within Yasuní National Park, one of the world’s most biodiverse places and home to a number of indigenous …

BRAZIL: Indigenous Groups Defend Constitutional Right to Land
IPS - Italy
Besides being controversial, a constitutional reform would be hard to apply in widely differing contexts, like the Amazon jungle region, where the land …

The Solution on our Dinner Plates
YES! Magazine - Bainbridge Island,WA,USA
We must go out of our way to protect the forests in the Amazon, Congo, and Indonesia by buying threatened forests, placing them in trust for indigenous …

 

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Chevron Accused of ‘Unethical Attacks’ on Court-Appointed Special …
Earthtimes - London,UK
… Amazon Defense Coalition, the organization that represents an estimated 30000 plaintiffs in the case, including the members of five Amazon indigenous …

National Geographic photographer recounts Amazonian adventures
The Daily Utah Chronicle - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
With that linguistic ability and his interest in anthropology, Schultes learned how the indigenous tribes 

Cepsa acquires Peruvian oil exploration blocks in Amazon jungle
Andina - Peru
… local authorities and indigenous populations , chiefly targeted at avoiding any adverse impacts on the environment and, consequently, its biodiversity. …

Expedition Amazonas interview, part 1: Coke and killer rapids
Mounteverest - New York,NY,USA
The expedition partnered with environmental and indigenous rights action group, Amazon Watch, with the intention of highlighting “the absolute need for a …

Threat to rain forests isn’t easing
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
They provide habitat for thousands of species and homes for indigenous people. Yet rain forests are still being destroyed despite decades of work to prevent …

Broken Rainbow: Hawaii’s Racial Separatism Threatens America’s …
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
That’s why S.310 relies on a dangerous new theory of the Constitution that Congress has power to single out any group of so-called “indigenous” people and …

Companies promote integral citizenship
Latin America Press - Lima,Peru
The construction of the Urucu-Manaus gas pipeline in the middle of the Amazon has also sparked concern among environmental and human rights organizations …

Who will go and serve?
The Liberty Champion Online - Lynchburg,VA,USA
When he was five years old, Saint’s father, Nate, was murdered in attempts to reach an indigenous tribe in the deep jungles of Ecuador. …

One camera, two men, big difference
24 Hours Vancouver - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Joaquin Phoenix heads deep into the heart of the Amazon Rainforest and encounters an indigenous tribe, while Somali-Canadian hip-hop star K’naan explores …

 

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Forests can keep us alive
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
The Amazon rain forest represents the largest remaining expanse of tropical rain forest on Earth. It provides livelihoods for diverse indigenous peoples; …
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Steel production drives deforestation in Brazil’s Pantanal
Mongabay.com - USA
MMX continues to operate under a temporary judicial order while the fate of the indigenous territories is being determined. The charcoal producers are …
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Saga expands river cruise offering
Easier (press release) - Chester,UK
… along the Amazon onboard Manatee Explorer, on which passengers visit the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve and meet an indigenous Huaorani Indian community. …

 

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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. Read Daisy Dumas’s article here

 

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. Click here to read the full article

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. Read Pat Thomas’s expose her

 

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 …

Only 4% of untouched ocean left: global report on oceans shows devastating damage

Global palm oil demand linked to human rights abuses

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 …

 

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Amazônia pode ‘morrer’ em 50 anos, diz estudo
Globo - Brazil
A floresta amazônica poderia “morrer” em 50 anos por causa de mudanças climáticas provocadas pelo homem, sugere um estudo internacional publicado na revista …

Groenlândia e Amazônia dão “aviso” sobre aquecimento–estudo
Reuters Brasil - Brazil
A perspectiva de ressecamento da bacia Amazônia, provocado pelo desmatamento eo aquecimento global, pode levar ao apodrecimento da floresta. …

Grande Rio explora Amazônia em enredo sobre gás
Globo - Brazil
A Grande Rio deu bastante destaque ao imaginário da região amazônica em seu desfile sobre a importância do gás natural para o ambiente. …

Amazônia será monitorada por aviões controlados a distância
Portal Amazônia - Manaus,Amazonas,Brazil
O trabalho de monitoramento será voltado para detectar criminosos fazendo desmatamento ilegal na Amazônia, controlar as fronteiras e, em certos casos, …

AMAZÔNIA NA MÍDIA VII Manejo garante a floresta em pé no AM
KaxiANA - Brasília,DF,Brazil
A Asproju tem parcerias com a Universidade Federal do Amazonas, com o Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (Inpa), com a Embrapa, com o Conselho …

Governo deve ‘afinar discurso’ sobre Amazônia, diz Múcio
ComuniWEB - Brasília,DF,Brazil
O ministro das Relações Institucionais, José Múcio Monteiro, classificou hoje de “informações desencontradas” as declarações do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula …

Adriano Moreira professor universitário
Diário de Notícias - Lisboa - Portugal
O secretário-geral das Nações Unidas tornou pública a sua avaliação positiva dos resultados a que chegou a Conferência da ONU sobre as Alterações Climáticas …

Cientistas listam as nove regiões mais sensíveis ao sobre …
Público.pt - Lisboa,Lisboa,Portugal
“As nossas conclusões sugerem que uma variedade de elementos pode atingir o seu ponto crítico ainda este século, devido às alterações climáticas induzidas …

Passeata contra Farc reúne 150 pessoas em Manaus
ComuniWEB - Brasília,DF,Brazil
Cerca de 150 pessoas, segundo os organizadores, participaram hoje, em Manaus, de uma passeata contra a violência e seqüestros feitos pelas Forças Armadas …

Coreografias emocionam A Grande Família
Portal Amazônia - Manaus,Amazonas,Brazil
MANAUS - Passava de uma da manhã quando o presidente do Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba A Grande Família, Luiz Gilberto Lima, tomou o microfone dos …

Vila Mamona traz luxo e Glamour para Avenida
Corumbá On Line - Corumbá,MS,Brazil
A Escola desfilou com 14 alas, trazendo a história do Pantanal, e já na primeira a escola falou dos índios guatós, seguido da ala que falou sobre os índios …

Associação retoma tradição e participa no Carnaval 2008
Jornal Regional - Portugal - Porto,Portugal
… a troupe dos Indios, na qual participaram cerca de 50 indios vestidos a rigor; o carro do Egipto, com uma troupe enorme onde nem a múmia faltou; …

Arnaldo Jabor
Gazeta do Sul - Santa Cruz do Sul,RS,Brazil
Ali, nas ruas sujas estão as três raças brasileiras entrelaçadas na esperança de um casamento grupal doido: negros, brancos e índios dando à luz um grande …

Escolas que primam pela criatividade
Folha da Região - Araçatuba,SP,Brazil
No enredo que falava sobre os povos que formaram Araçatuba, sob o título “Bem-vindo à terra dos Araçás”, a Caprichosos abriu seu desfile com os índios …

Governo descarta reduzir reserva legal na Amazônia
Folha Online - São Paulo,SP,Brazil
De acordo com o secretário-executivo do Ministério do Meio Ambiente, João Paulo Capobianco, o governo não está disposto a negociar a redução da reserva …

Governo erra na sua política sobre Amazônia
Diário do Amazonas - AM,Brazil
A informação de que o desmatamento da Amazônia voltou a acelerar-se representa um sinal de retrocesso na luta pela preservação desse grande tesouro natural …

Tema de Amazônia faz sucesso na Folia na Arena
Agência de Notícias do Acre - Rio Branco,Acre,Brazil
A canção fez a abertura da minissérie Amazônia - de Galvez a Chico Mendes, que encantou o Brasil de janeiro a abril do ano passado. “(. …

Amazônia pode perder 21% de sua área verde
Gazetaweb.com - Maceió,AL,Brazil
A Amazônia pode perder até 21% de sua cobertura atual de árvores até o fim de 2030. A informação, publicada no jornal O Globo deste domingo, é de um estudo …

Crise não ameaça Brasil, diz Mantega a jornal francês
O Globo Online - Rio de Janeiro,RJ,Brazil
O ministro negou que a dinâmica econômica do país esteja colocando a Amazônia em risco, mas, segundo o Les Echos, reconheceu que o governo tem dificuldade …

World Launches Talks on Forest Payoffs
The Associated Press -
Some environmentalists fear governments might push indigenous people out of newly protected forests — as they did when many national parks were created. …

Amazon logging means short-lived prosperity
The New Nation - Bangladesh
Devastation, violent land conflicts and rapid — but short-lived — economic growth are the traces left by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the …

Truly facing your demons
GetReligion - Washington,DC,USA
Others may be greeted by friendly plant-like creatures, gnomes, elves or even a giant anaconda—known by indigenous tribes as Mother Ayahuasca, …

Aparecida resgata cinema em Manaus
Portal Amazônia - Manaus,Amazonas,Brazil
MANAUS - A escola de samba Mocidade Independente de Aparecida apresentou, sábado, no Sambódromo, um resgate da história do cinema no Amazonas com o enredo …

Carnaboi agita Manaus na segunda e terça
Portal Amazônia - Manaus,Amazonas,Brazil
MANAUS - A 9º edição do Carnaboi, festa genuína do Amazonas, reúne na segunda-feira, 04, e terça-feira, 05, a partir das 20 horas, 21 artistas no Centro de …

Regulamento permite mais de uma campeã
Portal Amazônia - Manaus,Amazonas,Brazil
MANAUS - A alteração no regulamento do grupo especial trouxe mudança para a apuração das notas este ano. O regulamento permite que até duas ou mais escolas …

UPI NewsTrack TopNews
United Press International - USA
The China Meteorological Administration issued a red alert, the most severe of its warnings, for central and eastern China, Xingu reported. ..

Amazon’s rescue reversed
By admin
One of these is Sao Felix do Xingu, a cattle ranching town in the state of Para, where the mayor recently banned the use of motorcycle helmets because gunmen employed by powerful ranchers had used them to disguise their identities when …

Índio bêbado avança sobre grupo e fere três a golpes de facão
Midiamax - Campo Grande,MG,Brazil
Um grupo de índios conversava na aldeia Amambai, em Amambai, quando outro indígena, aparentemente embriagado, avançou sobre eles. Munido de um facão, …

Out and About
Rundtownnews.co.uk - Spain
… Spanish paintings upstairs and in the crypt, displays about the pre-Columbian Americas, in particular, the Yanomami, Mexican and Equatorial cultures. …

About the use of language…
By FeathersMcGraw(FeathersMcGraw)
… arahuaco, ayamán, baniva (baniwa), bare (barí), chaima, arekuna, taurepan, chase (piapoco), puinave, pumé, sáliva, sanemá, sapé, timote, uruak (urutani), piaroa, mopuoy (mapoyo), warekena, warao, wayuu, yanomami, yabarana y yukpa? …
Citizen Feathers - http://feathersblog.blogspot.com/

Marvin Harris
After two years of living with the Yanomami, Good decided to return to the United States. He had to make part of the trip in a dugout canoe, recovering from malaria. Chagnon had refused to loan Good an aluminum canoe, and neglected to …
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Humming Bird Fund
By emilyburridge
Also at the Tribal Gathering I met Davi Yanomami the great spiritual leader of the Yanomami tribe of Brazil. I recorded him reciting in Yanomami their myth for creation. I also recorded a Charborie ritual - which is a sacred ritual when …
Emily Burridge - http://emilyburridge.typepad.com/emily_burridge/

The Amazon Indians live on their own lands, grow their own foods …
By ddcjm(ddcjm)
For houses, we can take the Yanomami local groups as an example. They are generally made up of a multifamily house in the shape of a cone or truncated cone called yano or xapono (eastern and western Yanomami), or by villages composed of …
ddcjm’s secret hideout - http://ddcjm.blogspot.com/

Degradação da Amazônia é reprise do que fizeram em MS nos anos 60 …
Midiamax - Campo Grande,MG,Brazil
Defende uma política de reforma agrária voltada para a sustentabilidade, critica assentamentos em solo de baixa fertilidade e diz que a Amazônia repete o …

Embrapa quer usar soja para evitar desmatamento
Folha Online - São Paulo,SP,Brazil
O cultivo de grãos na Amazônia –entre eles a soja, apontada como uma das vilãs do desmatamento– pode ser uma alternativa para a recuperação de áreas já …

A Amazônia ainda não tem política de desenvolvimento, diz Capiberibe
Correa Neto - Macapa,AP,Brazil
Desta maneira, é possível a geração descentralizada de riqueza e renda com os produtos fármacos e de perfumaria, com as paisagens eo turismo na Amazônia. …

Afinal, o que é desmatamento?
O Estado de São Paulo - São Paulo,SP,Brazil
… evidencia claramente uma das divergências sobre as estatísticas do desmatamento na Amazônia: o que os satélites identificam como área desmatada, …