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logging in the amazon
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Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian police arrested 18 people accused of allowing illegal logging in the Amazon rain forest and were searching for 19 others, environment minister Marina Silva said. The suspects include loggers, members of the environmental protection agency, Ibama, and government workers.
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... have been increasing rapidly ever since Amazon released its first Kindle device in November of 20... summary of the communications rather than logging each communication individually); and. J. Prov...
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Since 1990, mounting tensions could be seen between the indigenous and the authorities in Lima after multinational corporations were granted access to pursue oil drilling, gas exploration, hydroelectric damming and logging throughout the Amazon. [...] this supposed grand scheme to uplift the poor, has significantly increased the disenfranchisement of already underrep resented native people who have now seen themselves stripped of basic ownership rights of their traditional lands. [...] Garcia also has yet to successfully explain how capital-intensive activities that barely generate jobs are going to overcome the country's poverty.
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PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru - The road crashes through the jungle like the fevered dream of the indomitable Fitzcarraldo, who schemes to transport a steamship overland through the Peruvian tropics in a cult film celebrating demented ambition. The Transoceanic Highway, evoking engineering marvels such as the Transcontinental Railroad and the Panama Canal, has been talked about for decades, assuming a mythic stature that has led many to question whether the east-west thoroughfare linking Brazil's Atlantic ports with the Pacific docks of Peru would ever come to pass.
... plants and dams in the Peruvian Amazon to help feed Brazil's voracious energy appetite ha...The gold fever, an illegal logging industry and an ongoing population explosion in th...
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... launched a public protest over illegal logging on their lands. More than 500 people from 40 commu...
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... the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by analyzing satellite images, but due to technolo... have only been able to guess at how much logging occurs in the rain forest. Now, with new technolog...
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... address rising deforestation and illegal logging, though critics say the scheme is too pro-developm...
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News reports Thursday shed new light on the extent of the hurricane disaster and the response: New satellite images reveal that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in America - an ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana, The Washington Post reported.
...Amazon pattern: Lead author Jeffrey Chambers said the tea... method perfected by researchers who study logging in the Amazon basin to assess the damage. The sate...
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By Myrna Domit The New York Times
... 73, an American nun who spoke out against logging in the Amazon rain forest, will be charged in the ...
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Some key objectives for the plan were: "to implement a new model of development in the Brazilian Amazon, focusing on the appre- ciation of (or the valuing of) the potential of its enormous natural and socio-cultural patri- mony, increasing the viability of dynamic and innovative economic activities with insertion [of these activities] in regional, national and international markets, and the sustainable use of natural resources with the maintenance of ecological equilibrium." The government is taking measures to fight deforestation through the PPCDAM and projects such as Carlos Mine's "pirate beef" operation [described below in "Recent Progress in the Conservation Struggle"].\n The government also announced its intentions to allocate a total of £300m in loans to farmers so as to encoura...
... as nature reserves, combating illegal logging and farming, and eradicating falsified land deeds ...
