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 Stories About: Brazil AND deforestation AND environmental movement AND rainforests
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David Roberts |
30 Mar 2007 |
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| This is a much more significant story than it might appear at first glance: Brazil's government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world's biggest rain forest. The environment and communications ministers signed an agreement Thursday with the Forest People's Network to provide an Internet signal by satellite to 150 communities, including many reachable only by riverboat, allowing them ... |
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| Topics: Brazil, deforestation, environmental movement, rainforests (all these topics) |
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