Violent confrontations between miners and the National Police in the city of Mazuko (Madre de Dios), as a result left 1 dead and over 20 injured.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
IADB: Acre State shows that keeping the forest intact is good business
Reconcile the urgent need to reduce poverty and preserve the rainforest is certainly the biggest challenge for the promotion of development in the Brazilian Amazon.
Los Tiempos: Lula vetoed a technical report against dams
The license for hydroelectrics Jirau and San Antonio was denied in 2007 by a technical board of IBAMA, considering them unsustainable. Then there were layoffs at the top of IBAMA and the Ministry of Environment.
Sand extractors alter the buffer zone of a reserve in Loreto
Residents of the area warned of the presence of heavy machinery that extracts white sand in the buffer zone of the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve.
National Geographic: New Photos of Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Stir Uproar
Isolated tribal nomads are at risk as logging pressure mounts in the Amazon rain forest.
Época: Conflict between government and indigenous people in the construction of 40 dams
To build the complex, the government will face 12 000 indigenous secularly known for cutting the heads of his enemies.
Business Insider: Photos of the controversial World Cup host city that’s in the middle of the jungle
Manaus is 1,700 kilometers from Sao Paulo and surrounded by 2.1 million square kilometers of rain forest. It’s also a head-scratching choice for a World Cup host city.
Amazonia Blog: Invadors are removed from Marãiwatsédé Indigenous Land
Operation by Federal Police, Federal Highway Police, National Indian Foundation and federal prosecutors removed the 70 people who illegally occupied indigenous land in the northwestern region of Mato Grosso.
Peru21: In Madre de Dios Prosecutor does not act against environmental crimes
Since 2010, there have been 2,900 cases of illegal mining, logging and deforestation, however only 300 were judged.
Amazonia Blog: For Nobel Winner, floods in North and drought in Southeast are related
Philip Fearnside, scientist specialized in climatology and based in Manaus, has warned for decades about the growing risk of climate catastrophes.