Amazon country wants UN summit to steer the course for a binding global committment on carbon emissions.
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International Rivers: Siemens denounced for damming Latin America’s future
International activists intervened at shareholder meeting requesting that the company withdraw from its role in Brazil’s Belo Monte mega-dam.
Amazônia.org: In Pará, indigenous people apprehend machines and expel miners
After receiving death threats, munduruku expell miners from indigenous lands in the far west of Pará, Brazil.
The Water Factory
A film showing the work of conservation of the cloud forest in Bolivia.
Pluspetrol got environmental approval to extract gas in the Peruvian Amazon
The project had been denied so far by the potential impact of work on isolated indigenous tribes. The Argentine oil company may start operating in three months.
This will be the Amazon Waterway project
The initiative, to be concessioned by Proinversion in May, aims to improve the navigability conditions of the waterway river system of the Peruvian Amazon.
Timber theft squeme discovered in Amazonas
Timber management plans in the state of Rondonia were suspended after the state of Amazonas identified an illegal management by loggers.
Peru Gas Project Approved Despite Indian Concerns
The approved expansion of the Camisea project overlaps with an indigenous reserve and could threaten indigenous peoples by exposing them to diseases.
Amazon cowboy joins fight to save rainforest
Cattle rancher John Carter works to get higher prices for food producers who farm in an environmentally responsible way in an effort to salvage what’s left of the Amazon rainforest.
Illegal mining is strongest in Madre de Dios and Cusco
Government operation found and evicted one thousand illegal miners in the Madre de Dios Region.