Tag: Amazon

If World Wishes to Save Brazil’s Amazon It Has to Trust the Forest’s People

After over a decade of ignored complaints, failed negotiations with the government, and countless ...

Brazil’s Gift to the World in 2009: Lowest Amazon Deforestation in 20 Years

According to Brazil's first National Inventory of Greenhouse Gases, up to 75% of Brazil's ...

Amazon Countries Gather in Brazil But Can’t Reach Concrete Proposal

Gathered in Brazil, nine nations in the Amazon region have called on rich countries ...

Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest Policy Is a One-Way Road to Disaster

Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, ...

Brazil Cuts Half New York in Amazon Trees in a Month, And It’s a Record Low

Brazil's Environment minister, Carlos Minc, is celebrating the pace of Brazilian deforestation. The last ...

With Old Woman’s Death Brazil Amazon Tribe Reduced to Five People

Decimated in the 1980s and living isolated in the northern Brazilian state of Rondônia ...

To Achieve Bolivar’s Dream Brazil Must First Tame the Amazon

Simon Bolivar was not the first to dream of a united Latin America, and ...

Looking for Love, Enlightenment and Justice in the Land of Brazil – Chapter II

Hotel Arara loomed in the recesses amongst the towering foliage at the Rio Negro’s ...

Deforestation Down in Amazon, Says Brazil. Photos Tell Another Story

Carlos Minc, the Environment minister of Brazil, claims increased policing have brought a sharp ...

A Market Value on the Rainforest Is the Best Hope for Brazil’s Amazon

Brazil is home to one-third of the world’s rainforest and half of the Amazon. ...