Amazon threat from soybean expansion delayed for a year - but 8 million hectares of unprotected forest at risk from 2015 pending new measures.
… Brazil extends Amazon protection from soy farms The Ecologist | 3rd January 2014 News Amazon Brazil Food Farming Forests soy-rondonia.png Amazon threat from soybean expansion delayed …
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has been sharply reduced in recent years, writes Alex Kirby. But analysts say that palm oil and other cash crops are set for a major expansion, while high demand for beef, and administrative chaos, may undermine efforts to reform the ranching sector.
… Palm oil - the new threat to the Amazon Alex Kirby | 20th October 2014 News Brazil Amazon Farming Trade amazon-road-cattle-flat.jpg Deforestation in …
Amazon tribes in Peru's rainforest are at risk of 'massive deaths' from new diseases to which they lack immunity, gas company Pluspetrol admits - as it tries to expand its Camisea gas project into a Reserve for isolated indigenous people.
… Gas company: Amazon tribes vulnerable to 'massive deaths' … | 20th January 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Amazon Peru Fossil Fuels Gas Energy camisea-nanti.png Amazon tribes in Peru's rainforest are at risk …
Peru is to expand its Camisea gas project although it threatens uncontacted Amazon tribes with extinction, reports David Hill. The decision also ignores UN pleas to stop the operations.
… Peru - gas expansion in Amazon 'indigenous reserve' David Hill The Guardian | 14th January 2014 News Amazon Peru Gas Fossil Fuels Indigenous … gas project although it threatens uncontacted Amazon tribes with extinction, reports David …
The oil and gas industry is disrupting communities and damaging ecosystems worldwide, writes David Poritz. Tough, independent social and environmental standards for the industry can bring urgently-needed improvements to company practices - even where government regulation has failed.
… October 2014 Comment Oil Fossil Fuels Ecuador Amazon USA Nigeria Society david poritz hart … Damaging oil development - from the Amazon to the USA Over the last 10 years, I … these converging factors across the Amazon Basin. Decades of oil development have …
This week 20 Amazon Indians walked to the Belo Monte dam site to demand the company keep its promises to compensate indigenous communities. Police shot them with 'rubber bullets' and stun grenades, wounding four. Tensions are rising ...
… Brazil: Amazon Indians shot at Belo Monte dam site … 30th May 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Brazil Amazon Water Energy Corporations … belo-monte-blockade-cut.jpg This week 20 Amazon Indians walked to the Belo Monte dam …
As the World Cup gets under way in Brazil, Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa told Liam J Shaughnessy about the very different world he inhabits, deep in the Amazon rainforest - a world of bright spirits, ancient knowledge, union with nature. And a world under threat.
… | 17th June 2014 Comment Religion Brazil Amazon Forest Development Indigenous Peoples … very different world he inhabits, deep in the Amazon rainforest - a world of bright spirits, … amongst the Yanomami people of the Brazilian Amazon and a revered advocate for indigenous …
Ecuador's state oil company PetroAmazonas has, in secret, built a road deep into the heart of the world-famous Yasuni National Park in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, writes David Hill - violating promises and threatening uncontacted indigenous tribes.
… Hill | 6th June 2014 News Transport Ecuador Amazon Oil Indigenous Peoples Forests … Ecuador's state oil company PetroAmazonas has, in secret, built a road deep … Yasuni National Park in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, writes David Hill - …
Scientists have found that the world's second greatest rainforest, the Congo, is losing its green, writes Tim Radford. As temperatures rise and rainfall reduces, the forest canopy is taking on a browner hue, and this could be an early signal of worse damage to come.
… Radford | 30th April 2014 News Forests Africa Amazon Congo Water Climate Change Ecology … consequent rises in temperature. And in the Amazon ... Across the Atlantic, things also look bleak for the Amazon rainforest, according to Paulo Brando …
It may all be over for England, but for Brazil, the battle is only just beginning. Anger over the vast cost of the World Cup - well over $10 billion - and its huge social impacts, is spilling over into a wider fury at massive mega-projects than enrich elites, trash the environment, and leave the poor poorer.
… June 2014 Comment Brazil Politics Protest Amazon Water Development belo-monte-cut.jpg It … involves flooding of over 1,500 km 2 of Amazon rainforest. This severe flooding of the … of corporate elites. See also: Brazil: Amazon Indians shot at Belo Monte dam site . …