Tag: amazon

Brazil Gets US$ 14 Million to Help Protect the Amazon

World Wildlife Fund yesterday contributed US$ 3.3 million to secure long-term financial sustainability for ...

Greenpeace Calls Deforestation in Brazil a National Shame

Greenpeace reacted with condemnation and outrage to the new Amazon deforestation figures released by ...

Indiscriminate Use of Pesticides is Rampant in Amazonas, Brazil

Eighty three percent of the fruit and vegetable producers in the cities of Manaus, ...

Brazil Uses Satellite to Track Amazon Deforestation

Brazil’s National Environment Protection Agency (Ibama) announced measures to control lumbering activities in Brazil, ...

Control and Productivity Save 1 Million Trees in Brazil

Greater rigor on the part of Brazil’s National Institute for the Environment and Renewable ...

Brazil Reserves 13 Million Hectares of Amazon for Sustainable Use

Brazil’s Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, said Wednesday, March 30, that the Brazilian government’s ...

Tattoos the Way Brazilian Indians Do

“Temporary tattoos are not new but our 100% plant-based tattoo is unlike anything in ...

4,000 Soldiers Ready for Action in the Amazon After Nun’s Slaying

General Jairo César Nass, who is in charge of the military operation in the ...

The Sell-Out of Brazil’s Amazon to Foreigners Is About to Start

Journalist Hélio Fernandes continues to be right – he says that somehow Brazil always ...

Brazil Wants Kyoto to Protect Forests

Actions to prevent illegal deforestation should be one of the mechanisms of the Kyoto ...