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Brazil's worst logger - the government? (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
new governmental report lists Brazil's land reform agency as the biggest culprit for illegal logging of Amazon rain forests. By Andrew Downie\ Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitorfrom the October 3, 2008 edition São Paulo, Brazil Brazil's environment ...
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Indians Close Ranks Against Dams in the Amazon (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
nbsp;By Bernarda Claure Source: IPS  LA PAZ, Jul 10 (Tierramérica) Indigenous communities in Bolivia and Brazil have declared an emergency in response to the construction of the Madera River Hydroelectric Complex, which Brasilia is pursuing even as independent research ...
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Amazon's 'Forest Peoples' Seek a Role in Striking Global Climate Agreements (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO Published: April 6, 2008   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/world/americas/06brazil.html?r=2&ref=worl d&oref=slogin&oref=slogin MANAUS, Brazil Some wore traditional headdresses, and some traveled by riverboat or canoe. But the dozens of "forest peoples ...
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Catholic bishop blasts Brazil on Amazon destruction (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/30740 BRASILIA (Reuters) A senior Roman Catholic bishop criticized Brazil's government on Wednesday for energy and agriculture policies that he said were destroying the Amazon forest and threatening the livelihood of local populations. "We cannot ignore ...
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Catholic Bishop Blasts Brazil on Amazon Destruction (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
RAZIL: February 7, 2008 http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/46824/story.htm BRASILIA A senior Roman Catholic bishop criticized Brazil's government on Wednesday for energy and agriculture policies that he said were destroying the Amazon forest and threatening the livelihood of local ...
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Brazil's Supreme Court OKs Irrigation Project (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/46164/story.htm BRAZIL: December 21, 2007 BRASILIA Brazil's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the government could restart construction of an irrigation project that has a Catholic bishop on a threeweek hunger strike. The opposition to the project ...
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Brazil Discovers an Oil Field Can Be a Political Tool (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO Published: November 19, 2007http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/world/americas/19braziloil.html?ref=w orld  RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 17 With the price of oil hovering near $100 a barrel, the discovery of the biggest deepwater oil field off the southeastern coast ...
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