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Layer farming; a sustainable solution for farmers and wildlife
February 13th, 2013
by Andrew Heath
In a remote cloud forest in South America subsistence farmers are embracing an alternative to slash and burn....... more...
Community and Conservation in Bolivia’s Yacuma Pampas
January 22nd, 2013
by David Shaw
Community-based land conservation is a valuable implement in the conservation tool-box, but not a magic bullet, says David Shaw more...
Texaco's pollution of Ecuador's indigenous lands brought to light in new DVD
Nicola Peel
8th August, 2012
Nicola Peel talks about her new DVD, Blood of the Amazon, telling of her travels through the rainforest and her investigations on the effects of reckless oil drilling on indigenous communities more...
How green are vegetable and rapeseed oils?
Rebecca Campbell
16th May, 2012
When it comes to oils we are spoilt for choice, with more than 130 million tonnes of oil consumed every year, according to the WWF. But with demand set to increase, what sort of impact is our appetite for oil having on the planet? And which is the green choice? more...
The dark side of soya: how one super crop lost its way
Amy Hall
1st May, 2012
A decade ago, soya was being hailed as a superfood but in recent years, numerous issues surrounding deforestation and its impact on health have come to light more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Martín von Hildebrand on indigenous rights in the Colombian Amazon
Mark Briggs
13th April. 2012
The veteran campaigner talks to the Ecologist about the ongoing struggle to secure indigenous land rights and how he successfully took the Colombian government to court more...
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
Laurie Tuffrey
5th April, 2012
Bernie Krause has spent a lifetime recording the sonics of nature. But, as Laurie Tuffrey finds, his quest to record the elusive sound of the wild finds practical application in conservation more...
Controversial El Quimbo dam risks becoming 'Colombia’s Belo Monte'
Amy Lieberman
16th March, 2012
A growing movement of fishing communities, miners and farmers are stepping up their campaign against the dam - one of dozens of hydroelectric projects looming across Colombia - despite violent repression of some protests more...
Amazon 'uncontacted' tribes at risk from new highway plan
David Hill
19th January, 2012
Tension is mounting in one of the remotest regions in the Peruvian Amazon over plans to build a highway through the country's biggest national park more...
Urge Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to save the Amazon rainforest
Ben Hudson
14th December 2011
The new Brazilian Forest Code proposes to relax land regulation in the Amazon rainforest which will increase logging, cattle ranching and other destructive activities. Tell President Dilma to veto the decision before it is too late more...
Review: Amazon exhibition at Somerset House
Ruth Styles
18th November, 2011
Sebastião Salgado and Per-Anders Pettersson’s work offers a compelling insight into a threatened way of life, says The Ecologist's Green Living Editor Ruth Styles more...
Brazil’s Forest Code: call for farmers to be paid to protect Amazon
George Blacksell
24th September, 2011
Brazilian government urged to start paying farmers to protect Amazon land as it pushes on with plans to scrap historic forest protection laws more...
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A day in the life of...Nicola Peel, Amazon activist and filmmaker
Jan Goodey
5th October, 2011
Nicola Peel's new film Blood of the Amazon tells the story of the world's largest environmental lawsuit and investigates how the oil industry threatens a fragile rainforest environment. By Jan Goodey more...
Coffee: is the black stuff as green as it should be?
George Blacksell
4th October, 2011
From deforestation to fertiliser; our taste for coffee has left some of the world’s most precious eco-systems in a precarious state. George Blacksell looks at how the coffee industry is cleaning up its act more...
Is the Amazon heading towards a 'tipping point' as a carbon sink?
Tom Levitt
27th May, 2011
The world's largest rainforest is ravaged by deforestation and two recent droughts. If they continue, says one expert, the Amazon risks entering a period where it can no longer be relied upon to absorb more greenhouse gas emissions than it produces more...
Amazon rainforest activist killed after ambush
Tom Philips, guardian Brazil correspondent
25th May, 2011
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva fought against illegal loggers and had received death threats but was refused police protection - he is the latest in a long-line of environmental activists being threatened or killed more...
Dr Simon Lewis: we're playing Russian roulette with a large portion of the Amazon
Tom Levitt
27th May, 2011
The world's largest rainforest is under combined threat from deforestation and human-caused climate change. In an interview with the Ecologist, tropical forest expert Dr Simon Lewis explains what is happening more...
Denise Hamu: Brazil 'needs to increase' beef and soya productivity
Matilda Lee
22nd February, 2011
Matilda Lee talks exclusively to the head of WWF Brazil about controversial beef and soya production, the REDD mechanism and deforestation, as well as the wider environmental challenges facing the emerging economic powerhouse more...
Oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips under fire over Peruvian tribes
Kara Moses
24th November, 2010
Activists call for corporations to withdraw from Amazon area because of disease and violence fears more...
Art for the Amazon: Natural History Museum uses art to tackle eco-crisis
Sam Phillips
12th October, 2010
A new exhibition draws inspiration from the plight of the Amazon and uses artwork to suggest and inspire creative solutions to an impending environmental catastrophe more...
Securing a future for Amazonian rubber-tappers
Giovana Zilli
8th September, 2010
A pioneering initiative is helping to rebuild the traditional local economy and livelihoods of the Amazonian rubber-tappers more...
UK could cut Amazon soya imports with home-grown peas and beans
Ecologist
21st July, 2010
A solution to the livestock sector's reliance on soya animal feed, which is driving deforestation in Argentina and Brazil, could be found by incentivising home-grown alternatives more...
How indigenous cultures can save themselves...and us
Matilda Lee
9th July, 2010
Many cultures have lived in harmony with their ecosystems for centuries. The Gaia Foundation have made it their mission to listen and learn from them. It's time we did too more...
How Cargill is feeding Europe's meat demands at the expense of the Amazon
Lynn Morris
6th July, 2010
Europe's demand for cheap meat is been fed by an increasing demand for soya feed from the Amazon but it comes at a cost - deforestation more...
Atlantic Rising: Water buffalo making no friends on Amazon floodplain
Lynn Morris
30th June, 2010
Water buffalo may not be the most pressing threat to the Amazon as a whole but on the river’s floodplain they are doing serious damage more...Members
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