The road would expose residents and isolated indigenous in the region to environmental degradation and drug trafficking. Better to make the road in Acre.
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Boston Globe: 100 Amazon birds risk extinction, group says
The list of Amazon bird species facing danger of extinction has risen sharply because their rainforest habitat is being slashed to make room for cattle ranching and agriculture, a conservationist group said.
The Guardian: Amazon deforestation at record low, data shows
Deforestation of the Amazon has fallen to its lowest levels since records began, according to data recently released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research.
The New York Times: Pakitzapango dam threatens Ashaninka community
Project for construction of the Pakitzapango dam, would hurt significantly way the livelihood of Ashaninkas communities settled on the banks of Ene River.
ArbioPeru Project offers an hectare to be protected in the Peruvian Amazon
It is a conservation project that was born to protect the Amazon, through the sponsorship of hectares of forests to protect them from deforestation.
Between extremes
Brazilian Panel on Climate Change predicts intensification of drought in the Northeast and North and increased rainfall in the South and Southeast.
UOL.COM: Belo Monte undermines Amazon and throws shadows on the Rio +20
At the heart of the Amazon, 8,000 employees and hundreds of trucks and machines built the third largest dam in the world.
Pantanal News: Terra Legal mapped 31 400 rural properties in the Amazon
In three years, the Terra Legal program delivered 2,388 property titles on Amazon and have measured and mapped others 31,400 properties in an area of 3.16 million hectares.
Al Jaazera: Brazil’s military takes healthcare to Amazon
Almost half of Brazil is covered by the Amazon. But providing healthcare services to the millions who live there is no easy task.
La República: : Amazon: Afrodita mining would affect 15,000 Wampis and Awajun native peoples
Awajun and Wampis native people were being affected by operations of Afrodita mining, denounced indigenous leader.