The Brazilian company, involved in a huge corruption case in Brazil, will build a dam that will flood towns of Cajamarca and Amazonas regions, and will displace thousand people.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Bolivia’s Morales pushes controversial TIPNIS highway forward, again
Bolivian President Evo Morales seems determined to build highway through heart of national park, threatening protected rainforest and violating indigenous lands.
Scientists discover new primate in the embattled heart of the Amazon
Rivers create species. Now, scientists have discovered a new primate that also appears to follow this rule, blocked off from his cousins by a confluence of rivers in the Peruvian Amazon.
Research: The end of the Amazon forest has a date: 2260
Illegal logging, urban sprawl, agricultural frontier expansion and impacts of infrastructure engineering works. The villains of deforestation in the Amazon are known but what is their real extension?
Illegal mining: the millionaire trace of Swiss refineries
Prosecutor identifies Swiss companies MKS and Metalor in money laundering on investigations against their suppliers of gold in Madre de Dios, Peru.
Fire attacks six thousand hectares of vegetation on two Amazonian states of Brazil
The fire affected the Tenharim-Marmelos Indigenous Reserve and the National Park of the Amazon Fields, between the states of Rondonia and Amazonas. Until last Saturday were destroyed six thousand hectares of vegetation.
Paris fight against exploitation of the Ecuadorian Amazon
The French region of Île-de-France, where Paris is located, has signed an agreement with Sarayaku, located in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, to compensate carbon emissions and trying to paralyze the petroleum industry in that area.
Bahuaja Sonene National Park – Increasing deforestation within and around Southern Section
MAAP found increasing deforestation in the buffer zone and inside the Park. Were documented recent deforestation of 538 hectares within the Park and an additional 2,100 hectares in the surrounding buffer zone.
47% of Marãiwatsédé Indigenous Territory is burning, in Brazil
Approximately 47% of indigenous land has turned ashes. Fighting against fire depend on police protection for firefighters and effective supervision of a road.
Mining closed in Amapá extracted gold and wood illegally in Brazilian state of Amapa
Owner had license to extract tantalite in an area of 30 hectares. Inspection identified river deviation and soil contamination by mercury.