The role of Brazil’s public bank in Amazonian countries has been highly detrimental to local populations and the environment, contrary to what the institution publicizes.
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Yet another controversial project between Brazil and Peru
Peru launches a convocation for the building of a highway between Pucapallpa and Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil’s most isolated city, placing under risk populations and ecosystems in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest.
BR-319: towards realityBBC: Ecuador’s Amazon drilling pledge still to take shape
Vila Realidade (or Reality Village), along the BR-319 highway and to the south of the Amazon Rainforest, is a township waiting for the asphalting of the road that begins to open up a path to deforesting in the most untouched portion of the Amazon.Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park is one of the most biodiverse areas in […]
The platform that was needed
Social organizations, companies and the media get together to develop the “Amazon 2030” project, which will monitor social and environmental indicators in the Colombian Amazon.
What will Dilma do with the Amazon?
O Eco Amazonia spoke to specialists about the main challenges Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, will have to deal with for the Amazon Rainforest.
A senseless project
Without any energy deficiency problems, Peru begins construction of Inambari, yet another Pharaonic dam in the Amazon. The Brazilian consortium in charge includes Petrobras.
If you don’t like it here, move on
The Brazilian government is the main financer of the road that will cut through a national park and an Indian reserve in Bolivia. The construction work has already been granted a license over the opinion of indigenous peoples. Pressures caused the resignation of the Vice-Minister of the Environment.
Biodiversity: it’s still not enough
A report from the WWF shows that 1,200 new species were found in the Amazon Rainforest in 10 years. Researchers believe that, with more investments, those numbers could be higher.
The sons of Madre de Dios
Prospecting activities in the Peruvian Amazon began more than 50 years ago and now gain momentum with the asphalting of the southern Interoceanic highway. Click to see image gallery
New asphalt tears into the forest
Indigenous people and populations that live off extractivism denounce the impacts caused by paving the roads between the south of Amazonas and Acre. The construction work is ridden with environmental and fiscal irregularities.