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The Tree Police, They Live Inside of My Head Brazil opens environmental police academy in Amazon		19 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
The Tree Police, They Live Inside of My Head Brazil opens environmental police academy in Amazon The environmental movement in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is arming itself, literally, for the fight against illegal mining, animal and plant piracy, and other crimes against nature. This week, Brazil's federal government opened Latin America's largest environmental police academy -- 135 square miles of Amazon land devoted to t ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, land degradation (all these topics)

Labor Pains Slave labor used to clear Brazilian rainforest		15 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Labor Pains Slave labor used to clear Brazilian rainforest The Amazon rainforest is disappearing at a precipitous pace, and as is too often the case, this environmental catastrophe is connected to equally dire human-rights abuses. To wit: Thousands of poor, illiterate Brazilian peasants work every year chopping down the forest in conditions Brazil's Labor Ministry delicately refers to as "analogous to slavery.'' Promised $ ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, business (all these topics)

Rubbers? Ducky! Condom Factory in Brazil to Fight AIDS, Deforestation		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Rubbers? Ducky! Condom Factory in Brazil to Fight AIDS, Deforestation Giving new meaning to the promise of "protection," a new condom factory in northwest Brazil is expected to not only fight the spread of AIDS in that country (one of the world's hardest-hit by the disease) but also to slow the destruction of native old-growth forests. The factory -- which aims to produce 200 million condoms a year by 2006, helping t ...
Topics: Brazil, business, wilderness (all these topics)

The Big Disease-y New Controls Needed on Wildlife Trade to Prevent Disease, Scientists Say		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Brazil, business, food and agriculture, globalization, health, India, wildlife (all these topics)

Extract Marks the Spot Development, Tradition on Opposite Sides in South American Energy Battles		10 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Extract Marks the Spot Development, Tradition on Opposite Sides in South American Energy Battles Given its vast reserves of oil and natural gas, the Amazon basin should be heaven for extractive industries. Instead, the people who make their home in the basin are trying to make life hell for energy companies. Over the years, Amazon natives have become both more sophisticated and mo ...
Topics: Brazil, Ecuador, energy, green living, Peru, rainforests, South America (all these topics)

No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros It's been a roller coaster year for environmentalists in Brazil. Last October, with the election to the presidency of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula, for short), they were elated, because he was seen as one of their own. Now, though, enviros say they have been betrayed on virtually ev ...
Topics: Brazil, dams, energy, GMOs, international government agencies, nuclear power, rainforests (all these topics)

Gold Substandard Unlawful Gold Mining Threatens Brazilian Amazon		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Gold Substandard Unlawful Gold Mining Threatens Brazilian Amazon Illegal gold mining in the rivers of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is on the upswing and could mean bad news for the environment. Thousands of poor small-scale miners, called garimpeiros, risk their lives to get at traces of gold at the bottom of rivers, sometimes employing equipment as basic as a garden hose for underwater ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rainforests (all these topics)

Going Mahogany Wild Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Amazon Rainforest in Peru		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Going Mahogany Wild Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Amazon Rainforest in Peru Illegal logging of mahogany is escalating in Peru, threatening the Amazon rainforest and a number of indigenous groups that live in its remote reaches. The mahogany trade is strictly governed by international rules, and Brazil has cracked down on logging of the sought-after tree, but mahogany ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, commercial and industry organizations, logging, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans In a big blow to opponents of biotechnology, Brazil announced last week that it will allow farmers to plant genetically modified soybeans, ending its role as one of the leading nations opposed to GM crops. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government had previously promised to oppose GM plantings, bu ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, business, deforestation, food and agriculture, GMOs, rainforests (all these topics)

Put It in Park Megapark Will Protect Vast Stretch of Pristine Amazon Rainforest		16 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Put It in Park Megapark Will Protect Vast Stretch of Pristine Amazon Rainforest Brazil has announced the creation of a new "conservation corridor" that will link 12 separate protected areas in the Amazon rainforest to create a 25 million-acre megapark. It will be the world's largest protected stretch of tropical rainforest, encompassing about 70 percent of Brazil's northern state of Amapa, which scie ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, national parks, rainforests (all these topics)

Welcome to the Ex-jungle		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Welcome to the Ex-jungle The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest jumped 40 percent in 2002, with 9,840 square miles of forest lost, according to figures released this week by Brazil's Environment Ministry. That loss -- the highest since 1995 -- prompted alarm among environmentalists and pledges by the Brazilian government to implement emergency measures to protect t ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, mining and drilling, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

The Mahogany and the Ecstasy		09 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
The Mahogany and the Ecstasy Brazil clamped down on the logging of mahogany in the Amazon Rainforest last week, putting in place new rules that require loggers to present plans showing how harvesting will be done sustainably. Brazil produces about half of the world's supply of mahogany, a highly prized -- and highly endangered -- wood sought for the making of furniture and instruments. The move by the Brazilian ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, rainforests (all these topics)

Double Trouble		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Double Trouble The number of animal species in Brazil known to be endangered has nearly doubled since 1989, reaching 398, according to a three-year study conducted by the Brazilian government and released last week. Tropical wolves, rare parrots, and exotic frogs and turtles are among the many threatened creatures. The comprehensive survey of animal and plant life in the country found that natural habitats were i ...
Topics: Brazil, population, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Seedy		19 May 2003	Daily Grist
Seedy Members of Brazil's Landless Peasant Movement occupied a test farm owned by biotechnology giant Monsanto last week, in a bid to expel the company and establish an organic farm on the site instead. The protestors say neither the people nor the government of the Brazilian state of Parana support genetically modified (GM) crops, such as the transgenic soybeans an ...
Topics: Brazil, business, environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Brazilian Whacks		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Brazilian Whacks In what may be the worst industrial accident in Brazil's history, a massive chemical spill into two rivers has cut off the supply of clean water to some 600,000 people in three states near Rio de Janeiro. A reservoir at a pulp and paper factory leaked 320 million gallons of caustic soda and chlorine into the Paraiba do Sul River last weekend before being contained on Mon ...
Topics: Brazil, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

A Lulu for Lula		31 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
A Lulu for Lula Brazilian enviros are up in arms over a federal move last week that will allow genetically modified (GM) soybeans to be sold in the country temporarily, through January 2004. GM crops are officially banned in Brazil, but so many farmers flout the prohibition that an estimated 12 percent of the nation's soy crop is genetically engineered. With millions of tons of GM soybeans already in the ground and growing, soy traders argued ...
Topics: Brazil, GMOs (all these topics)

Monkey in the Middle		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Monkey in the Middle The number of primate species or sub-species classified as endangered or critically endangered has risen 63 percent since 2000, according to "Primates in Peril: The World's Top 25 Most Endangered Primates," a report issued recently by Conservation International and the World Conservation Union. The report found that one-third of all primate species are at ri ...
Topics: Asia, Brazil, environmental non-government organizations, wildlife (all these topics)

The Seeds of Discontent		07 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Seeds of Discontent Despite a teeming black market for genetically modified seeds in Brazil, the country's leading presidential candidate says he would not lift a four-year ban on biotechnology anytime soon. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the leftist Workers' Party, who by all appearances was the victor in the first round of elections, held this weekend, opposes GM crops, saying they are harmful to small far ...
Topics: Brazil, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics (all these topics)

Hurricane Hugo		06 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Hurricane Hugo If Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has his way, some developing nations will create an OPEC-like cartel to protect plants and animals from exploitation by the industrialized world. Speaking earlier this week at the close of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Chavez said, "If these [developed] countries carry off a medical formul ...
Topics: Brazil, business, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Tumucumaque and Stomachache		23 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Tumucumaque and Stomachache There's good news and bad news from the Amazon. Good news first: The Brazilian government has announced the creation of the world's largest tropical forest reserve -- the 9,562,770-acre Tumucumaque National Park, in the northern Amazonian state of Amapa. The bad news is that even such a large park seems like a Band-Aid effort for Brazil's rainforest, which is disappearing at t ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, national parks, rainforests (all these topics)

Sh*tting By the Dock of the Bay		19 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Shtting By the Dock of the Bay Ten years ago, delegates attending the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro wrinkled their noses upon encountering the putrid smells emanating from the heavily polluted Guanabara Bay. The summit cast a spotlight on the plight of Rio's bay and led to the creation of an internationally funded cleanup project. Now, with the follow-up Earth Summit ...*
Topics: Brazil, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Jungle Fever		15 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Jungle Fever Vines are the hallmark of any self-respecting jungle -- picture Tarzan swinging in from offstage -- but the situation is getting a bit out of control in the Amazon rainforest, where vines are growing so quickly they are choking trees and possibly interfering with the ability of forests to soak up greenhouse gases, according to a study published in today's issue of Nature. An international te ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, rainforests, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Amazon Quivers		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Amazon Quivers Deep in the southeastern jungles of Peru, a stand-off has begun between illegal loggers and some of the world's last wholly isolated indigenous groups. Around 400 native Amazonians, who traditionally have little to no contact with the outside world, have emerged to try to run the illegal loggers off the land. After four of the loggers were reportedly injured with arrows, others called for reinforcemen ...
Topics: Brazil, business, logging, rainforests (all these topics)

Two Green Peas in a Pod		02 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Two Green Peas in a Pod It's a rare day when Greenpeace and the Bush administration see eye to eye, but the environmental organization is siding with the White House in a fight against mahogany importers. Seven such importers have sued the administration for holding up 12 shipments of Brazilian mahogany, which have been stranded on U.S. docks since last winter due to concerns that they may violate Bra ...
Topics: Brazil, Greenpeace, logging, politics, United States (all these topics)

Amazon Grace		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Amazon Grace Here's a little bit of welcome news from the Southern Hemisphere: The rate of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest has fallen sharply, according to Brazilian environmental officials. Between 2000 and 2001, the rate of logging and set forest fires fell by 13 percent, from roughly 7,000 square miles of forest destroyed in 2000 to about 6,000 last year. The Brazilian governme ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, rainforests, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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