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

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