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On a Clear-Cut Day, You Can Seed Forever
Brazil unveils plan to slow deforestation and soy cultivation in Amazon |
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25 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:49 AM on 25 Jan 2008 Following Brazil's recent announcement of a dramatic rise in Amazon deforestation in the country in the last months of 2007, the country this week announced new plans to try to slow the destruction. Plans include tapping the army to conduct inspections of known problem areas and keep deforested land from being cultivated or used for pasture, fining me ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics) |
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We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust!
Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang |
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27 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust! Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang In a burst of dawn raids, Brazilian police busted an Amazon logging gang yesterday. Some 400 agents fanned out across five Amazon states and arrested at least 34 people accused of forging and selling permits that facilitated the transport of millions of dollars worth of illegally logged hardwood timber. It marked the ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics) |
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The Sawn Remains the Same
Massive Amazon illegal logging ring busted |
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03 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Sawn Remains the Same Massive Amazon illegal logging ring busted Eighty-nine people were rounded up by Brazilian authorities this week as part of a massive crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, causing a rare outbreak of hope among conservationists that the country's government is finally taking the problem seriously. (The sweep came just weeks after the latest, very grim, data on Amazon deforestation we ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news (all these topics) |
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Soy Triste
Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up |
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19 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up More than 10,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest disappeared from Brazil in 2004, the second-highest level of deforestation ever recorded, thanks mainly to the expansion of soy farming. As U.S.-state comparisons are de rigueur in these stories: that's an area the size of Massachusetts. Though Brazil's government imp ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, logging, news, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Sturm Und Stang
Nun's murder spurs Amazon protections |
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22 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Sturm Und Stang Nun's murder spurs Amazon protections Outrage over the Feb. 12 murder of nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang has finally catalyzed Brazil's government to protect the forest Stang worked for decades to save. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in addition to once again pulling logging permits he had restored just a week before Stang's assassination due to intense pro-logging protests, announced o ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news (all these topics) |
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Nun of the Above
Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction |
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17 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Nun of the Above Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction Through heart-rending tragedy, international attention was focused with unusual intensity this week on rainforest destruction in Brazil. Dorothy Stang, an elderly nun working to slow the devastation of the Amazon by organizing locals against the powerful (and largely illegal) logging and ranching operations bent on expanding the ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news, rainforests, ranching (all these topics) |
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