((o)) eco team is in the Tapajós region, stage of indigenous resistance against the construction of at least 5 dams in the area.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Production of transgenics can avoid deforestation
In addition to control insect pests, transgenics may have improved their performance in extreme situations.
Imazon alert increased for deforestation in the Amazon Protected Areas
At least 208 km2 of forests were suppressed between March 2012 and 2013.
Madre de Dios: is urgent hydrological data for river protection in the region
Many institutions have hydrological information that they should make available.
Publication analyzes extractive and infrastructure megaprojects in the Amazon
It is a report that makes a geopolitical and socio-environmental analysis on projects.
Murderer of Dorothy Stang will comply punishment at home
Sentenced to 27 years in prison for murder, the gunman Rayfran das Neves Sales was benefited by the regime of progression of sentence
Bolivia lost 250,000 hectares of forest from deforestation
The loss is due to deforestation, the expansion of the agricultural frontier and fires.
Illegal loggers in reserves were arrested
Deforestation within a Natural Protected Area is an illegal activity and serious criminal offense, and is punishable by imprisonment.
Madre de Dios: illegal miners begin strike
They demand the infeasibility of the formalization process by the “lack of political will and lack of interest” by the Government.
Loggers try to restart construction of illegal road to Purus Reserve
The illegal via is part of terrestrial interconnection between Tahuamanu and Purus and rejected by local indigenous.