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Alligators hunted illegally in the Mamirauá nature reserve.
Credit: Juarez Pezzuti

Report
Laws No Help to Amazon Animals, or People
By Mario Osava - IPS/IFEJ
Strict laws prevent Brazil's Amazon river dwellers from making use of wildlife that is otherwise destroyed by natural causes anyway, say experts.

These forests in the Cuzco area will be flooded if the Inambari dam is built.
Credit: Milagros Salazar/IPS

Accents
Brazilian Dam Would Put Peruvian Jungle Under Water
By Milagros Salazar
The Inambari dam, a Brazilian project inside Peruvian territory, would flood 40,000 hectares of Amazon jungle and Andean cloud forest.

Eco-Briefs

BRAZIL: New Technique for Reducing Dumps
A new garbage treatment system, developed by Ronaldo Izzo, a researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, could reduce the area covered by dumps by 75 percent. The technique consists of treating the waste and using it to make the soil of the landfill impermeable.

VENEZUELA: University Forest Expropriated
Venezuela's National Lands Institute confiscated the land of the Central San Nicolás University's field research station, some 1,400 hectares dedicated to agricultural studies. The institute then settled 51 rural families there.

HONDURAS: Indigenous Groups Denounce Logging in Protected Areas
Representatives of the Federation of Xicaques and Tolupanes Tribes denounced the illegal incursion of loggers into the forests where Honduran indigenous communities live, in the central department of Francisco Morazán and the northern department of Yoro.

Latin America’s Green Path Forward - Laura Tuck
December 12 Was a Tipping Point - Saleemul Huq
Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador - Kerry Kennedy
The Global Food Crisis and the Latin American Paradox - Pamela Cox

Tierramérica - Climate and the Caribbean

Do Our Children Have a Chance? - World Bank Report

Latin America dn the irreversible Effects of a Warmer Planet -- First Regional Report on Climate Change

Price Hikes Trigger Mozambique Protests

East Europe Takes to Too Many Cars

CHINA:
Bigger Bite Needed into Appetite for Shark Fin Soup

ASIA:
Japan Watches As China Passes It By

Revolution in African Agriculture Gathering Momentum

Flood-Ridden Pakistan Ineligible For Emergency Debt Relief

BRAZIL:
Inequality Declines in Rio as Rich Get Poorer

U.N. Lagging on Water and Sanitation Development Goals

ARGENTINA-BRAZIL:
Nuclear Safeguards System an Example for the World

COLOMBIA:
US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record

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UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme

Laws No Help to Amazon Animals, or People

New Technique for Reducing Dumps

Indigenous Groups Denounce Logging in Protected Areas

Brazilian Biofuels Run into EU Obstacles

Transparency a Challenge for Peru Mining and Oil

First Ethics Tribunal for Border Mining

Brazilian Dam Would Put Peruvian Jungle Under Water

Salmon Industry Won't Give Up

An Ocean of Crustaceans

Laws No Help to Amazon Animals, or People

Brazilian Dam Would Put Peruvian Jungle Under Water

Southern Plains Devastated and Neglected

Brazilian Dam Would Put Peruvian Jungle Under Water

Indigenous Groups Denounce Logging in Protected Areas

Salmon Industry Won't Give Up

Bacteria Inventory of the Atlantic Forest

Science Mission to the Arctic

Big Southern Eye in Search of Extraterrestrial Life

Ramesh Jaura speaks with Pamela Cox - World Bank's Vice-President, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Zarina Geloo interviews Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Shell

Alejandro Kirk interviews Holly Dublin, IUCN Species Commission.