Reporting by Raymond Colitt; Editing by Cynthia OstermanSun Jul 25, 2010 5:45pm EDT BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian native Indians on Sunday took 100 workers hostage at the construction site of a hydroelectric plant in the southern Amazon region, local media reported. As many as 400 Indians from several different tribes occupied a power plant they […]
The pink dolphins of the Amazon are being threatened with extinction as fishermen kill them to use their flesh as bait. By Harriet Alexander and Rebecca LefortPublished: 4:07PM BST 24 Jul 2010 Scientists believe that 1,500 dolphins are being killed annually in the western Amazon to fuel a lucrative trade in catfish, which feeds on […]
The Oriente – the East – is Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest region, home to unparalleled biological diversity, as well as the country’s oil patch and massive contamination left behind by decades of oil operations by Texaco (now Chevron). Amazon Watch’s Ecuador campaign team is on a brief field research mission in the Oriente, and today was […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com July 20, 2010 Consumers in the US purchasing mahogany furniture may be unwittingly supporting illegal logging in a Peruvian reserve for uncontacted indigenous tribes, imperiling the indigenous peoples’ lives. A new report by the Upper Amazon Conservancy (UAC) provides evidence that loggers are illegally felling mahogany trees in the Murunahua […]
A new report by the Chatham House finds that illegal logging in tropical forest nations is primarily on the decline, providing evidence that new laws and international efforts on the issue are having a positive impact. According to the report, the total global production of illegal timber has fallen by 22 percent since 2002. Yet […]
By Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil on 07.12.10 If you thought unscrupulous logging practices were the only threat to the world’s largest rainforest, then think again. According to a new study, one extremely powerful storm in 2005 resulted in the deaths of an estimated 441 million to 663 million trees along the Amazon basin […]
Missionary told to leave after helping Amazon tribes resist incursion of oil, gas and mining firms into the rainforest By Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk Friday 2 July 2010 19.29 BST Peru has ordered the expulsion of a British missionary who was dubbed a “Tarzan agitator” for helping Amazon tribes to resist the incursion of […]
June 17, 2010 (AFP) — Logging of tropical forests can boost the incidence of malaria in the surrounding area by nearly 50 per cent, according to new research tracking deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon. The study examined 2006 data tracking malaria rates in 54 Brazilian health districts and high-definition satellite imagery showing the extent of logging […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentOSLOThu Jun 3, 2010 2:03pm EDT OSLO (Reuters) – Brazilian farmers are setting more fires in parts of the Amazon where deforestation has slowed, according to a study on Thursday that shows weaknesses in a U.N. plan for slowing climate change. Big fires, set by farmers to clear land for agriculture, […]
Nairobi, 10 May 2010 – Natural systems that support economies, lives and livelihoods across the planet are at risk of rapid degradation and collapse unless there is swift, radical and creative action to conserve and sustainably use the variety of life on Earth. This is one principal conclusion of a major new assessment of the […]
