Official plans of extraction of natural resources put in conflict Ecuador’s president and indigenous leaders of this Andean country.
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Workers who stopped the progress
Protagonists of strikes that gained national prominence, the workers who build the plants in Rondônia still living under pressure and risk of accidents.
Mining in Colombia, horizon of hope or chaos
Big companies will enter into areas of the most biodiverse and preserved Amazon. But the government says it will help in conservation.
Peru: large projects and tiny mining threaten the Amazon
Peruvian destroy your slice of the forest with large infrastructure and illegal miners seeking fortune through gold.
Video: Raging River
The video shows the second article in the series Amazonia Pública, about hydroelectrics on Madeira River: http://apublica.org/amazoniapublica/madeira
Sierra del Divisor, an Amazonian paradise with many threats
Fourth Power TV program aired a story on the Sierra Divisor Reserved Zone, a lush paradise mountains in the Amazon of Ucayali.
The tragedy of deforestation is still continuing
Brazil achieved the lowest rate of deforestation in its history, but the continuation of deforestation is still a tragedy.
Deforestation and burning grow in the Bolivian Amazon
Agriculture and livestock occupation benefited from the construction of new roads stimulated the destruction of the Amazon in Bolivia, that reached 1.6% of the territory in 10 years.
Amazon Under Pressure 2012 Atlas
Special about the impacts of mining, oil, roads, deforestation, fire and hydroelectric power plants in 9 countries of the forest.
Unesco submitted proposal to preserve the Manu to the effects of climate change
UNESCO presented a project that will help preserve the biodiversity of the site and the safety of those living in the buffer zone.