Thursday, 12 January 2012 09:29 Written by Ramiro Escobar

Compensation for damage caused to the Ecuadorian Amazon is almost 20 billion dollars, but the fight may not be over.

Ecuador

Friday, 23 December 2011 12:34 Written by Maria Clara Valencia

Experts agree that 95% of forest fires in the Colombian Amazon are caused by man.

Translated by Amy Roberts - amy800@gmail.com

Colombia

Wednesday, 21 December 2011 10:04 Written by Ramiro Escobar

A high incidence of oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon exposes the lack of monitoring of companies and the unpreparedness of the government to deal with accidents.

Translated by Amy Roberts - amy800@gmail.com

Peru

Wednesday, 14 December 2011 09:11 Written by Thiago Foresti

Commitment to infrastructure and agribusiness push boundaries of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Moment is of vulnerability.

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Brazil

Tuesday, 29 November 2011 13:33 Written by Kelem Cabral

Political pressure on behalf of the development of new states and the need to expand areas for agribusiness can disrupt protected areas in Pará.

Brazil

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 19:12 Written by Gustavo Faleiros

Documentário originado em um expedição pelo rio Amazonas revela a linda paisagem e os dilemas do desenvolvimento da ilha fluvial brasileira.

Brazil

Thursday, 17 November 2011 13:52 Written by Gustavo Faleiros

A study launched by the Regional Coordination/Articulation of the Amazon (ARA) reveals that almost half of the population of the Amazon basin countries live below the poverty line.

Brazil

Thursday, 17 November 2011 10:13 Written by Evelyn Gusmán

The Red Book of Terrestrial Ecosystems of Venezuela warns of state of affairs in the conservation of the Amazon and of risks of forests extinction.

Tags:

• venezuela

Venezuela

Friday, 11 November 2011 12:00 Written by Karina Miotto

Judges disagree with the Public Civil Action and vote in favor of building the hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River. Legal battles line the history of this plant.
 

Translated by Amy Roberts

Tags:

• brasil

Brazil

Friday, 21 October 2011 08:26 Written by Gustavo Vieira

Since 2006, soybean plantations in the Brazilian Amazon have led to more than 11,000 hectares of deforestation. Moratorium had been renewed.

 

Brazil

Friday, 14 October 2011 07:30 Written by Felipe Lobo, Giovanny Veras e Karina Miotto

Ecotourism in Pan-Amazonia could generate income for local communities and increase knowledge of the region, but it’s still at the early stage of development.
 

Tags:

• amazônia
• bolívia
• brasil
• colômbia
• ecoturismo
• equador
• panamazônia
• peru

Brazil

Friday, 07 October 2011 14:05 Written by Giovanny Vera Stephanes

Brazil maintains funding for major infrastructure works even though the social and environmental impacts to the Bolivian Amazon.
 

Tags:

• bolívia
• brasil
• tipnis

Bolivia

Monday, 26 September 2011 09:25 Written by Leilane Marinho

In Rondônia, lack of supervision promotes the hunting of the turtle-of-the-Amazon that have been protected by project for over 30 years.

Tags:

• conservação
• ibama
• projeto quelônios da amazônia
• rondônia
• tartaruga da amazônia

Brazil

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:57 Written by Rachael van der Kooye

Anthropologists are conducting a research on how to resolve conflicts caused by small-scale gold mining in five contries from the Amazon region.

Tags:

• amazônia
• bolívia
• brasil
• colômbia
• gomiam
• mineração
• mineração de ouro
• peru
• suriname

Suriname

Wednesday, 31 August 2011 17:28 Written by Andreia Fanzeres

Social and environmental organizations denounce ruralists influence over zoning law as harmful as the "new" Forest Code.

Brazil