They will embark this week on a house-to-house campaign in their Amazonian village to dissuade locals from granting oil exploration.

They will embark this week on a house-to-house campaign in their Amazonian village to dissuade locals from granting oil exploration.
Launched at the Rio Film Festival, the documentary traveled the brazilian Amazon in search of projects that reconcile conservation and production.
Nearly 200 indigenous people, farmers and fishermen occupy the Pimental area. The Belo Monte construction consortium hasn’t spoken up yet.
The biological wealth of the Bolivian Amazon is very big. According to recent research data, about 1,000 species of freshwater fish live in the area, where there is a high potential for the fisheries sector.
After five years since its last sighting, rangers from Cordillera Azul National Park registered the presence of a Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) which was moving into the area.
Samples from eight cedar trees in Bolivia have helped shed light on the seasonal rainfall in the Amazon basin over the past century, say researchers.
The Museum of History and the Center for Amazonian Studies (CEAM) will present studies on ancient systems of productive management in Moxos.
The activity benefited members of the Association of Rural Producers of Carauari with product supply and the population with consumption at affordable price.
Decision taken in September determines the withdrawal of families who live in the place.
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