Project considers the development of Amazon as an integral and sustainable element; through a participatory, shared and equitable administration for the benefit of the Amazonian population and the country.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Know the sounds of nature through indigenous music
Audiovisual project records and provides free rich musical collection of Amazonian indigenous peoples who gathers from traditional songs to hip-hop.
El Deber: The new dwarf tapir can be a Bolivian “flagship species”
The new species called Tapirus kabomani, the dwarf tapir, is known in Bolivia as ‘black tapir’, ‘small tapir’ or ‘tapir donkey legs’.
Pulitzer Center: Like Butterflies in the Jungle: The Quest for the New El Dorado
In French Guiana, some 15,000 wildcat miners armed with diesel engines, hydraulic equipment, guns, and not a small supply of sugarcane liquor were hacking into the European Union’s sole rain forest.
Renewable Energy Magazine: Brazilian court rejects call to shut down Belo Monte dam
The federal court rejected the prosecutor’s request to suspend construction, and did the same for a request for compensation to indigenous from Volta Grande do Xingu.
NPR: Will camu camu be the next amazonian ‘It’ fruit?
For now, camu camu berries grow wild on trees that grow along flooded rivers in the Amazon rainforest. 100 grams of camu camu have 100 times more vitamin C than 100 grams of lemon, and the fruit is full of antioxidants.
EBC: In French Guiana there are at least 10,000 illegal Brazilian miners
The estimate was confirmed by a mission of Amapá Civil Police, who visited some of the 520 mines in the region. The rising price of gold in the international market is what drives these Brazilians going abroad in search of metal.
In times of the World Cup, Amazon deforestation FIFA style?
Data on deforestation in Brazil are often expressed as number of soccer fields. In times of World Cup, the use of this unit gains special meaning. From August 2011 to July 2012, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon was 457,100 soccer fields.
InsideClimate News: Brazilian State Blazes Path To Sustainability in Amazonia
After sparking a movement against slash-and-burn agriculture and a murder, the State of Acre is selling a new vision of sustainability in the Amazon.
Madre de Dios: More than 100 machines used by Miners acting Illegally were Destroyed
A total of 114 machines and pieces of equipment used for illegal mining activity were seized and destroyed in an operation in the buffer zone of the Tambopata National Reserve, Madre de Dios.