Indians occupied one of the three construction sites of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant. It is the second indigenous action, just this month, which aims to compel to paralyze the work.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Giant turtles lived in the Amazon before emigrating to Galapagos
The Chelonoidis prehistoric was reconstructed by paleontologists from the Federal University of Acre from fossils discovered in 1995 in the middle of the Amazon and never analyzed.
Researchers discover new bird in occupied part of the Amazon
The bird was discovered through DNA testing and analysis of its song.
Guardian: Peru spares Amazon rainforest from oil and gas push
New hydrocarbon sites will all be offshore, but campaigners fear contentious oil and gas development in Amazon will still go ahead
Crazy cat numbers: unusually high jaguar densities discovered in the Amazon rainforest
Project found that the jaguar population in three Peruvian conservation areas could number as high as 6,000 animals.
Amazon birds: Photographer creates poster with 74 birds of the region
The poster includes a description of the bird family, popular name in Portuguese and English, scientific name and size of each bird.
Butterflies compete for drink tears of turtle in Amazon
Butterflies would use unusual attitude in search of a source of salt.
Act remembers two years of murder of extractive couple in Pará
The couple of extractivists José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva was ambushed on a road and executed with headshots in Nova Ipixuna, in the east of Pará State. Until today, the people pointed by crime remain unpunished.
The empire in the tropical forest
Deforestation of the twentieth century is linked to large production processes. Some are forms of agricultural frontier expansion into the forests. Others are extraction of raw materials on a large scale forestry.
Politician asks boost on development of the Amazon and defense of the environment
President of the Congress of Peru made a call to promote the development of the Amazon in harmony with nature.