With 1020 embargoes registered, most of them related to deforestation and environmental devastation, the city is the embargoes champion across the country.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
The rights and wrongs of Belo Monte
Having spent heavily to make the world’s third-biggest hydroelectric project greener, Brazil risks getting a poor return on its $14 billion investment.
Ecotourism generates wealth surrounding the Mamirauá Reserve
Each $ 0.5 invested in tourism generates more than $ 2 for the local economy. The municipalities around the reserve are also benefited.
The other “Belo” which is moving on the river Xingu
At 50 km from the Belo Monte hydroelectric Belo Sun the Canadian mining company also wants Xingu water for use in gold mining.
Amazon deforestation falls in March and April
Alerts deforestation in the Amazon have been 175 km ² in March and April. 40% less than the 292 km ² cleared during the same two months of 2012. Desmatamento de agosto de 2012 a Abril de 2013 na Amazônia Legal | Create infographics
What did Loreto in the last ten years on issues of environmental regulation?
Authors of text describe regional regulations emitted chronologically and examine the construction of institutional organization that the region experienced in the last ten years.
Big infrastructure projects threaten the Amazon
International Panel seeks moratorium on projects that have destroyed and damaged Amazonian ecosystems in recent history.
Ministry of Environment declares emergency in Rio Pastaza by oil spill
The government declared an emergency after confirming that many cases of environmental pollution in the region were not restored promptly by Pluspetrol and other oil companies.
Peruvian Amazon: technology promises to reduce the impact of oil wells
Today, oil exploration in the Peruvian Amazon causes deforestation and contamination of rivers. New study shows the best techniques to reduce impacts.
Manatees: fragile and unsuspected elephant relatives
Amazon manatees, cousins of elephants, are the heirs of a strain with at least 50 million years.