The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) granted a license to install the Hydroelectric Plant of São Manoel, planned at the Teles Pires River, at the border between Mato Grosso and Pará.
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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.
Global Ideas: Exploring remote corners of the Amazon
Film follows researchers as they aim is to find new species and underline the biological significance of the region.
Sol de Pando: In Brazil will be the highest climatological observatory in the world
Brazil and Germany will build a weather station, the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (Atto) which will measure 330 meters, 29 meters higher than the Eiffel Tower
Portal do Meio Ambiente: Declaration calls for the recognition of Panamazon role
The Statement of Lima, result of Third Pan-Amazon Meeting, called the Peruvian government to assume an essential role in COP 20, to position the region as vital to achieving the goals and objectives of the Climate Convention.
The Economist: Tropical forests: A clearing in the trees
Typically, countries start in poverty with their land covered in trees. As they clear it for farms or fuel, they get richer—until alarm bells ring and they attempt to recover their losses.
The Washington Post: Peru fights gold fever with fire and military force
As many as 40,000 illegal miners — mostly poor, Quechua-speaking laborers from Peru’s Andean highlands — have invaded some of the most pristine and biologically rich sections of ancient forest in the Amazon basin.
La Región: Amazon research institute will use InfoAmazonia to disseminate studies
The director of the Bioinfo Program, of the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP in Spanish), Luis Campos Baca, said the construction of networks like this will allow disseminate the knowledge generated by Amazonian institutions.
The Washington Post: The Yanomami: An isolated yet imperiled Amazon tribe
The Indian group has official protection, but its large reserve in Brazil is coveted by mining companies and large farming enterprises with political clout.
El Diario: Indigenous presents demand to stop oil project in Peru
Wampis and Awajun authorities called for a process of consultation with communities before continuing oil exploration in Lot 166, made by Pacific Rubiales and Maurel Et Prom companies.
OEFA: Ministry of Environment initiated administrative procedure against Petroperu by spill
The Agency for Assessment and Environmental Control (OEFA in Spanish) of Peru began administrative disciplinary procedure against Petroperu by the spill occurred on June 30, 2014 in the North Peruvian Pipeline near the Cuninico River in Loreto.