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Environment News tagged with Brazil

Kids in the US - Please Vote for FFI and Our Work in Brazil Could Receive Up to $100,000!
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, kids, voting, grant, Disney, Brazil, nature, pollution, humans, wildlife, forests, water )

Cher
- 80 days ago - fauna-flora.org
FFI's project to address mercury river pollution in Brazil has been selected as a grant recipient for an environmental initiative run by The Walt Disney Company called Disney's Friends for Change: Project Green.
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In Brazil, the Meat Industry Searches for a Solution to Deforestation
Environment  (tags: environment, deforestation, Brazil, meat industry, habitat, nature, protection, animals )

Cher
- 81 days ago - mnn.com
A contributor to the problem also tries to be part of the solution by changing behavior in the Amazon.
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Greenpeace Says Big Brands Destroying Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Brazil, amazon, rainforest, deforestation, animals, destruction, cattle, fires, burning, pollution, CO2emissions, environment, globalwarming, ecosystems, humans, nature, wildlife, trees, Sustainabililty, conservation, climatechange, research, study )

Tom
- 154 days ago - environmentalleader.com
The expansion of Brazil's cattle sector is driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and threatens to undermine Brazil's pledge to cut deforestation by 72 percent by 2018. The cattle industry is the largest source of deforestation in the world.
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Faith And Snakes, Mud And Fear In Flooded Brazil
Environment  (tags: floods, Brazil, environment, destruction, nature, snakes, protection )

Cher
- 199 days ago - cbsnews.com
Covering Brazil's worst flooding in decades _ a disaster that has killed 39 people and left nearly 270,000 homeless _ requires constant feeds of adrenaline and faith: adrenaline to conquer the fear of getting bitten by what locals call the "two-headed
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37,000 Sq Km of Amazon Rainforest Destroyed or Damaged in 2008
Environment  (tags: Brazil, amazon, rainforest, indigenous people, Indians, land, court, government, humans, environment, globalwarming, protection, nature, satellite, conservation, sustainable )

Tom
- 249 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Farmers, speculators, and ranchers set vast areas ablaze to prepare for the 2008 growing season. A new satellite system provides a more detailed look at forest degradation and may help Brazil stop deforestation before it occurs.
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Brazilian Court Ruling Backs Amazon Rainforest Reservation
Environment  (tags: Brazil, good news, amazon, rainforests, indigenous people, Indians, land, court, government, humans, environment, globalwarming, protection, nature, conservation, sustainable )

Tom
- 249 days ago - google.com
Brazil's Supreme Court sided with Amazonian Indians in a land dispute that some have called critical for determining the future of the rainforest that sprawls the size of Western Europe and provides a critical cushion against global warming.
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World's Largest Wetland Threatened in Brazil
Environment  (tags: wetlands, threatened, Brazil, destruction, degradation of the landlocked river delt, environment, protection, wildlife, animals )

Cher
- 280 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jaguars still roam the world's largest wetland and endangered Hyacinth Macaws nest in its trees but advancing farms and industries are destroying Brazil's Pantanal region at an alarming rate.
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Brazil Protects Vast New Areas of Amazon Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Amazon rainforest, Brazil, new protected areas, conservation, habitat, environment, ecosystems, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 532 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Brazil has commemorated World Environment Day by creating four new protected areas, three of them in the Amazon rainforest. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed the documents authorizing the three new protected areas in the Amazon,
8 comments
I Give Up, Says Brazilian Minister Who Fought to Save the Rainforest
Environment  (tags: brazil, amazon, politics, conservation )


- 558 days ago - independent.co.uk
Brazil has been accused of turning its back on its duty to protect the Amazon after fears over the fate of the rainforest were fuelled by the resignation of its award-winning Environment Minister, Marina Silva, who felt she was losing the battle.
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HEART OF BRAZIL
Environment  (tags: environment, nature, rainforest, brazil )

Derkovits
- 584 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
Sue Cunningham's wonderful pictures from the rainforest
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Brazil to Crack Down on Deforestation
Environment  (tags: Brazil, deforestation, crackdown, security, illegal logging, conservation, environment, habitat, habitatdestruction, protection, wildlife, trees )

Cher
- 636 days ago - economictimes.indiatimes.com
Three hundred police and security agents have been deployed to the Amazon in a massive crackdown ordered by the Brazilian government against loggers illegally stripping the forest, officials said on Tuesday.
8 comments
Brazilian Police in Huge Crackdown on Amazon Deforestation
Environment  (tags: illegal logging, Brazil )


- 636 days ago - rawstory.com
Three hundred police and security agents have been deployed to the Amazon in a massive crackdown ordered by the Brazilian government against loggers illegally stripping the forest, officials said Tuesday.
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ENN: Brazil Cracks Down on Illegal Amazon Farm Products
Environment  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, destruction, humans, protection, habitatdestruction, government, environment, endangered, rain forest, brazil )

Thunderr
- 701 days ago - enn.com
Brazil has banned the sale of farm products from illegally deforested areas in the Amazon in an attempt to reverse months of increasing destruction in the world's largest rain forest.A decree signed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday imposes
3 comments
Bad News for the Rain Forest
Environment  (tags: brazil, rain forest, world, trees, environment )

Linda
- 766 days ago - newsweek.com
Brazil's effort to stem tree-cutting in the Amazon seemed to be working, but a new report shows otherwise.
5 comments
As Brazil's Rain Forest Burns Down, Planet Heats Up
Environment  (tags: Brazil, rain_forest, deforestation, Amazon )

Pretty
- 808 days ago - mcclatchydc.com
TAILANDIA, Brazil -- For more than a decade, Vigilio de Souza Pereira has carved his living out of the thick Amazon rain forest around his ranch in northern Brazil. When Pereira needs more land for his crops and cattle, he cuts more virgin jungle...
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