Fishing for piracatinga, a flat fish known as “Water Vulture”, will be restricted for a period of five years in the Amazon.
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This is the layer of news links submitted by the public and journalists who are concerned with mapping the main issues of the Amazon rainforest. See the link bellow to also send us weblinks.Esta é a camada de notícias enviadas pelos leitores e jornalistas que colaboram com o mapeamento dos principais temas da floresta amazônica. Use o link abaixo para enviar matérias.Esta es la capa de noticias enviadas por lectores y periodistas que colaboran con el mapeo de los principales temas del bosque amazónico. Use el link de abajo para enviar noticias.
A Critica : New project to produce ethanol in the Amazon from sweet potatos
Sudam organization will support research that will result in the production of Amazonian biodiesel using sweet potatos as raw material instead of cane sugar.
Globo.com: The crimes that led to ‘Operation Xilófagos’ in Roraima, Brazil
Brazil’s federal police conducted the ‘Xilófagos’ operation on the morning of Thursday the 18th. They were investigating environmental crimes committed in the capital and in the interior of Roraima, Brazil.
The Nation: Is Ecuador Selling Its Economic and Environmental Future?
In July of this year, a pipeline ruptured near an upriver tributary of the Aguarico, just above Dureno. The spill, an estimated 16,000 barrels, spread for almost a hundred miles down through the precious 600,000-hectare Cuyabeno wildlife reserve, as far as Zabalo.
The Guardian: Belo Monte, Brazil – tribes living in the shadow of a megadam
Next year the Belo Monte dam will flood vast swathes of Amazon rainforest. Indian tribes living on the river have lost their fight to halt the project – now they await the floods that threaten their entire way of life.
Rolling Stone: Murder of activists in the Amazon Rainforest
The situation is especially bad in the northwest Amazon. News of José Antún’s death in Ecuador follows the September killing of four Peruvian indigenous anti-logging activists near the Brazil border.
G1: Imazon indicates high of 467% in deforestation in the Amazon in October
Data refers to the same month in 2013; Monitoring is unofficial. Rondônia was the state with more deforestation, according to the NGO.
El Tiempo: Is the lung of the world running out of air?
57 percent of the 120,933 hectares of forest that were deforested in Colombia in 2013 belong to the Amazon.
La Información: Ecuadorian President defends oil extraction in the Amazon
The president said that the activities will affect less than 200 hectares of the nearly one million of the Yasuni National Park.
BBC: Amazon deforestation linked to drought in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Researcher says that the normal flow of cool and wet air from the Amazon to southern Brazil was interrupted by the clearing and burning of forests.