International activists intervened at shareholder meeting requesting that the company withdraw from its role in Brazil’s Belo Monte mega-dam.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Pasco: the Chungar Administrative Company was fined $ 53 thousand for contaminating Naticocha Norte lagoon
The penalty was imposed because the company exceeded the maximum permissible limits (LMP) for Iron in the effluent discharged into the North Naticocha lagoon.
Amazônia.org: In Pará, indigenous people apprehend machines and expel miners
After receiving death threats, munduruku expell miners from indigenous lands in the far west of Pará, Brazil.
The Water Factory
A film showing the work of conservation of the cloud forest in Bolivia.
Pluspetrol got environmental approval to extract gas in the Peruvian Amazon
The project had been denied so far by the potential impact of work on isolated indigenous tribes. The Argentine oil company may start operating in three months.
This will be the Amazon Waterway project
The initiative, to be concessioned by Proinversion in May, aims to improve the navigability conditions of the waterway river system of the Peruvian Amazon.
287 amphibian and reptile species in Peruvian park sets world record
Surveys of the Manu National Park and its buffer zone turned up 155 amphibian and 132 reptile species, 16 more than the 271 species documented in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park in 2010.
Young manatee is rescued within the Amazon
Last year, at least 13 animals had to be rescued in the rivers of the State of Amazonas.
Government agency shows abandonment of protected areas in the Amazon
Unprecedented audit identifies gaps in unit management, lack of financial resources and management problems. Organ charge arrangements.
Invadors cut down three thousand trees in experimental lands of institute
The San Roque Agricultural Experiment Station was invaded and more than three thousand trees were cut down that were part of agroforestry systems of timber species.