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Sweet Child of Mine?		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sweet Child of Mine? After forcing a mining operation to leave town in 1997, the 46 families of Junin, a remote village in northern Ecuador, decided to have a go at ecotourism to protect the rainforest around them -- and to earn a living. But now a growing number of the residents are questioning that choice. The paradise of orchids, hummingbirds, and jaguars is no consola ...
Topics: Ecuador, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, rainforests, travel, wildlife (all these topics)

Everything Goes Worse With Coke		30 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Everything Goes Worse With Coke As if population pressures and the international demand for wood weren't exacting enough of a toll on tropical ecosystems, here's another problem: cocaine. In the last 30 years, some 5.7 million acres of Peruvian rainforest have been razed to make way for coca crops, and more than 14,800 tons of toxic chemicals used in the cocaine manufacturing process are dumped into th ...
Topics: Amazon, land degradation, Peru, rainforests, toxics (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)

The Oriente Express		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
The Oriente Express Native residents of the rainforests of Ecuador and Peru were dealt a blow late last week when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied their petition to reopen litigation against the oil giant ChevronTexaco for devastating their environment and exposing them to carcinogenic pollutants. The court upheld an earlier ruling, which found that ...
Topics: business, Ecuador, environmental justice, Peru, politics, pollution and waste, rainforests (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)

Radar Strange		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Radar Strange Ever since Sept. 11, sophisticated surveillance systems have been the talk of the town, and fans have proposed installing them in all sorts of places -- airports, subway systems, sports stadiums. But rainforests? Yep. Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso flew to the jungle city of Manaus yesterday to inaugurate the Amazon Surveillance System, a $1.4 billion network of radar stations and high-tech equi ...
Topics: Amazon, rainforests, wilderness (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)

Dead Bird Flying		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Dead Bird Flying Upon hearing reports of his own demise, Mark Twain famously retorted that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. The same could be said of the golden-crowned manakin, a small Brazilian bird thought to have gone extinct almost a half-century ago but recently rediscovered in the Amazon rainforest. The bird was found by German ornithologist Helmut Sick in 1957. That was also the last year anyone ever ...
Topics: Brazil, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Readers' Rare Bits		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, food and agriculture, rainforests, US EPA (all these topics)

Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites Last month, Mexican officials learned their country is losing its forests at a rate of nearly 3 million acres a year, or nearly twice the clip previously thought; now, they're blaming the heavy deforestation on impoverished indigenous farmers in Chiapas, who slash and burn the jungle to scrape out their meager living. The long history of m ...
Topics: deforestation, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

Reserve Judgment		06 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Reserve Judgment Concerned about threats to Africa's remaining rainforest, the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society has been forming closer ties with logging companies. The group believes that in some cases, working hand-in-hand with loggers is the best way to protect what's left. Last year, the group helped negotiate a deal that traded away 260 square miles of the 2,000-square-mile Lope ...
Topics: Africa, Congo, Gabon, logging, New York, rainforests (all these topics)

Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back Indonesia said this week that it would tighten its forestry laws to rein in illegal logging. Under the new rules, companies will lose their licenses to log in 2003 unless they can prove they are managing forests sustainably. Enviros cheered the change, though it remains to be seen just how the theory will tr ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, international government agencies, logging, rainforests, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics)

Rainforest Bunch A review of The Tapir's Morning Bath	Michelle Nijhuis	22 Aug 2001	Arts and Minds
It's easy to glorify field biologists. They travel to exotic locales, hang out with rare wildlife, and further humanity's understanding of the natural world. What could be more valuable -- or more fun? The Tapir's Morning Bath By Elizabeth Royte Houghton Mifflin Co., 288 pages, 2001 Wanna buy it? The Tapir's Morning Bath brings the discipline gently down to earth. Barro Colorado Island, a six-square-mile i ...
Topics: education, Panama, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Can't See the Forest	Josh Sevin	01 Mar 2000	Counter Culture
20 percent of Earth's original forests remain undisturbed 13 percent of original forests in the Pacific Northwest remain undisturbed 1 to 2 percent of original forests in the U.S. remain undisturbed 2.47 acres of rainforest are destroyed each second, an area approximately the size of two U.S. football fields 214,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed each day, an area larger than New York City 78 million acres of rainforest are destroyed each year, a ...
Topics: rainforests, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Picture Bliss Sherry Bosse reviews Fighting for the Forest by Gloria Rand, the WWF's Living Planet by Frans Lanting, et. al, Borneo Rain Forest by Mattias Klum, and Anthology for the Earth by Judy Allen	Sherry Bosse	20 Dec 1999	Arts and Minds
Sometimes it can be difficult to see the forest for the smog, but the natural beauty revealed when the haze clears can be a good deal more powerful and inspirational than mere words (such as those in this sentence). So it goes with photographs and illustrations, which ...
Topics: green living, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

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