Positive news from Brazil
Reproducing Amazon Soils Could Boost Fertility And Scrub CarbonSt. Louis, MO - The search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have yielded pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of gold mine: some of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground. |
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Amazon Tribes Know GeometryNear the Cururu RIver, Brazil - While high school freshmen sometimes struggle with parallelograms and the Pythagorean Theorem, people deep in the Amazon quickly grasp some basic concepts of geometry. |
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Brazil moves to protect Amazon tribeRio De Janeiro, Brazil - Federal police are evicting settlers and loggers from an Amazon area that experts believe is home to one of the world's most isolated Indian tribes, the government said Wednesday |
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Greenpeace Buys Tons of Illegally Cut Brazilian Wood, Delivers it to PoliceSao Paulo, Brazil - Environmental activists parked a truckload of illegally cut Amazon hardwood in front of a police station in Brazil's largest city on Monday to demonstrate how easy it is to skirt the law. |
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Why The Amazon Rainforest Is So Rich In SpeciesLondon, England - Tropical areas of south and central America such as the Amazon rainforest are home to some 7500 species of butterfly compared with only around 65 species in Britain. |
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Deforestation rates decrease in the AmazonRio deJaniero, Brazil - The Brazilian government announced that the deforestation of the Amazon fell by 30 per cent in the twelve months up to August. |
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Brazil bishop ends hunger strikeBrasilia, Brazil - A Brazilian bishop who spent 11 days on hunger strike has ended his protest after the government agreed to delay an environmental project. |
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Ethanol Starting to Trade Like a World CommoditySao Paulo, Brazil - Ethanol export contracts from Brazil are looking more like contracts for other goods, such as sugar, soy and oil -- a sign that the renewable fuel may be on its way to becoming a world commodity. |
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Network of UN ecological reserves adds 22 new sitesNew York City - Ranging from coastal mangrove forests to desert mountains chains, and stretching from Chile to Mongolia, 22 ecosystems have been added to a United Nations programme that promotes sustainable development on a scientific basis with the active involvement of local communities. |
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Brazilian police cut wood-poaching scamBrasilia, Brazil - Police felled a wood-poaching scheme in one of Brazil's vast jungles and arrest warrants have been issued for 129 suspects, officials said Thursday. |
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News from South America
- Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record low
- new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest
- Brazil humpback population on the rebound
- Human Rights Court Rules in Favor of Community Over Ecuadorian Government
- Venezuela Ends Shark Finning, Creates Protected Area
- Peru Aims To End Child Labour
- Indigenous group and NGO establish crucial corridor in vanishing Atlantic Forest
- Peru is latest developing nation to adopt climate change initiative
- GM crops banned in Peru
- New rainforest and indigenous reserve established in Peru