The proximity to Iquitos becomes strong pressure for Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Madre de Dios: Observatory for monitoring environmental impacts
It is a space for analysis, discussion and dissemination of information on projects and activities of major social and environmental impacts in the southern Amazon.
Mining formalization in Madre de Dios fails despite laws
Neither laws that classify illegal mining as a crime, or rules governing inputs such as fuel, or the process of formalizing stops progress of illegal mining in Madre de Dios.
BNDES expands budget for financing sustainable projects
The decision was made based on the volume and quality of the projects submitted.
Mato Grosso, hydroelectric and blindness scheduled
Secretariat of Environment ignores complaints of problems in environmental impact assessment and hydroelectric project progresses in Sangue river.
Open scars. Illegal gold mining and indigenous massacres
Mining, bodies, burnt bones. Illegal extraction of gold may be behind one of the bloodiest massacres of indigenous recently.
Mato Grosso concentrates 61% of deforestation in the Amazon in May
The Brazilian Legal Amazon has lost 84 km square in May. Data shows that state recorded deforestation of 51 km2.
Amazon Fund begins to distribute funds for projects
Fund picks up donations for non-reimbursable investments in projects that assist in the protection, conservation and sustainable use of forests in the Amazon Biome.
The return of mining to the Amazon, all fear
The July 2 mining moratorium is lifted and return the delivery mining titles. Institutions fear results.
For a law of the Amazon
Law should include aspects of ethnicity, the environment and development vision according to ecological and cultural conditions of the Bolivian Amazon