The Associated Press, International Herald Tribune : Brazil on Friday inaugurated an Internet-based lumber tracking system that authorities said will help them crack down on illegal logging in the Amazon rain forest. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Astor, FOX News : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Scientists on Monday unveiled a replica of a skeleton scientists said was from the largest dinosaur species yet discovered in Brazil _ a mid-sized herbivore that roamed central Brazil some 80 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period.A scientific description of the dinosaur, which represents a previously unknown species and measured some 13 yards from head to tail, was published on Aug. 11 in Brazilian National Museum’s bulletin. Read the rest of this entry »
Russell A. Mittermeier, International Herald Tribune: A few weeks ago, I flew over the Amazon in a single-engine Cessna to a reunion with the leaders of the Kayapó nation, one of South America’s proudest and most famous indigenous groups. For decades, 7,000 Kayapó have defended their 113,000-square kilometer, Cuba-sized homeland in the Brazilian states of Pará and Mato Grosso from incursions by speculators, ranchers, gold miners, loggers and squatters. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14121009/
Media: MSNBC - USA
Date: July 31,2006
Brazil’s air force and navy will transport more than 100 penguins to Antarctica next month after the flightless birds were stranded on Rio de Janeiro beaches. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article
Media: The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date: July 24, 2006
LEADING European supermarkets, food manufacturers and fast-food chains, including McDonald’s, have pledged not to use soya grown illegally in the Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5184332.stm
Media:BBC News - UK
Date:July 17, 2006
Few places present as many challenges to travellers as the Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1822311,00.html
Media:Guardian Unlimited - UK
Date: July 17, 2006
· Extreme conditions felt for second year running
· Record sea temperatures and illegal logging blamed
Paul Brown in Manaus, Guardian: On the vast expanse of water where the silty Amazon mingles with the coffee-coloured Rio Negro, Amazon Indians and church leaders floated out yesterday to bless the waters and protect them from drought. Read the rest of this entry »
Last month Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed three new protected areas in the Amazon basin, placing 1.84 million hectares (4.55 million acres) of rainforest off-limits for development. Read the rest of this entry »
By Stan Lehman, Associated Press: SAO PAULO — A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory — a find arch eologists say indicates early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed. Read the rest of this entry »
