Tag: Amazon

President Lula Reminds World that the Amazon Has an Owner: Brazil

It's time the world realize that the Amazon has an owner and that that ...

Brazil Threatens to Expel NGOs and Foreigners from the Amazon

The Brazilian government is drafting a law asserting sovereignty over the often lawless Amazon ...

Brazil Has Deployed Close to 30,000 Troops to Defend Amazon Riches

Nelson Jobim, Brazil's Minister of Defense, announced he will be visiting neighboring countries to ...

Until World Gets Internationalized the Amazon Belongs to Brazilians Alone

In October 2000, I published an article entitled “A Internacionalização da Amazônia” (The Internationalization ...

Brazil Cuts a Rhode Island Worth of Amazon or Much More in 3 Months

Preliminary data reported this Wednesday, January 23, by the Brazilian Environment ministry and the ...

Brazil Amazon Indians Take on Soy Barons Blocking Dam Site

The remote Enawenê Nawê Indians have blockaded the construction site of a hydroelectric dam in ...

Brazil Needs Help of the Rich to Stop Amazon’s Destruction

The international conservation organization World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is warning that a ...

Brazilian Armed Forces Complain of Obsolete and Broken Equipment and Low Wages

Brazil's armed forces, the largest military in Latin America, are badly equipped, demoralized over ...

Brazil Tells World ‘Keep Off, the Amazon Is Ours’

Nelson Jobim, the Brazilian Defense Minister stated that the Brazil's Amazon sovereignty is non ...

Brazil Gets the World’s 40th Place for Eco-Friendliness

Despite being the custodian of the world's largest forest, the Amazon, Brazil gets low ...