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 Stories About: Amazon AND heroes AND logging AND Peru
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Dios Mio
Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi Palacios battles for an intact Amazon |
Michelle Nijhuis |
25 Apr 2007 |
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| Julio Cusurichi Palacios. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Peruvian Amazon is one of the most remote places in the world. In its wildest corners, in the Madre de Dios region along the Brazilian border, some indigenous communities continue to live far from modern society. But their solitude is eroding: Loggers are pushing deeper into the forest, searching for increasingly rare s ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, heroes, logging, Peru (all these topics) |
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