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12/24/99--Study Sees Ocean Impact on Amazon

12/21/99--Equipment for Amazon Surveillance Program Arrives

12/18/99--Cutbacks in Amazonian Protection Put Off

12/17/99--Glimmer of Hope for the Amazon

12/17/99--Brazil Plans Environmental Projects for Y2K

12/16/99--Trees that Live for 1,000 Years Astound Scientists

12/16/99--Brazil: Indigenous Leader Arrested

12/14/99--Invisible Ink Used to Curb Illegal Amazon Logging 

12/14/99--Brazil's Natural Gas is New Black Gold

12/11/99--Illegal Amazonian Timber Trade Exposed

12/8/99--New Brazilian Forestry Bill was Postponed Until March

12/7/99--Brazil Rainforests Face New Legislative Threat

12/7/99--Brazil Agrobusiness and Ranchers in Secret Forest Destruction Deal

12/6/99--Brazil Forestry Code Vote Pending

12/6/99--Brazil Could Roll Back Rainforest Protection

12/5/99--Proposed Brazilian Law Could Permit Massive Deforestation

12/1/99--Crackdown on Trafficking in Wildlife

11/27/99--Budget Row Stalls Brazil Global Environment Talks

11/26/99--Military Police Arrest 13 Indigenous in Bahia

11/25/99--Brazil Defends Dry Northeast from Desert

11/23/99--Military Police Remain in Pataxo Area

11/19/99--Conflict in Bahia Between Military Police and Indigenous Groups

11/18/99--In a While, Brazilian Crocodile

11/5/99--U.S. Rancher Aims for Amazon Buffer--Private Nature Reserve

11/4/99--Brazil Indigenous and Riverside Communities React to Big Projects

11/3/99--Mahogany Needs Protection

11/1/99--USA Offers Brazil Debt Pardon for Environmental Investment in Amazon

11/1/99--Eye Over the Amazon--New Satellite Imagery

10/31/99--Law of the Jungle

10/31/99--The Last Tribal Battle--Uncontacted Indians in Brazil

10/29/99--Brazil's Arid Northeast to Host Desertification

10/27/99--Brazil, Donors Seek Ways to Improve Amazon Programe

10/26/99--Judge Suspends Licensing Process for Araguaia-Tocantins Hidrovia Dam

10/25/99--Brazil Steps up the Fight Against Animal Smuggling

10/22/99--Letter from Indigenous Leaders Regarding Dams

10/22/99--New Charges of Fraud on Waterway Project's EIS

10/16/99--Message Concerning the Xixuau-Xiparina Nature Reserve

10/15/99--News from Brazil: Indigenous Retake Lands, State of Debt

10/13/99--Brazil's Budget Funds Forest Protection

10/13/99--Some Movement Towards Eco-Friendly Forestry in Brazil

10/11/99--Brazil Sees Profits in Sustainable Forestry

10/5/99--Brazil Slaps Fine on Mahogany Logger

10/4/99--Brazil Sets Record Fine for Illegal Amazon Logging

10/1/99--NGO's Show Real Damage to the Amazon

9/24/99--Brazil's President Signs Law Increasing Environment Destruction Fine

9/23/99--Brazil Atlantic Forest Tops Global Ecology Concerns

9/22/99--ITTO Brazil Report

9/17/99--Brazil's Indians Sick, Hungry

9/10/99--Soy Production Spreads, Threatens Amazon

9/9/99--Brazil Says Fires Reduced in Amazon Jungle

9/7/99--Brazil Declares State of Emergency in Amazon

9/6/99--Brazil: Drought, Slash-and-Burn Lead to Fire

9/6/99--Environmentalists Slam Brazil Over Fires

9/5/99--Fires Rage in South-Central Brazil

9/2/99--Fires Rage in Brazil

8/30/99--Brazil State Mulls Suing Neighbors Over Fire

8/30/99--Brazil, U.S. to Cooperate in Fighting Forest Fires

8/28/99--Forced Labor Common in Amazon

8/27/99--Major Carbon Investment in Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

8/23/99--Brazil's Animal Trade Under Fire

8/23/99--Brazilian Government Revives Plan for Amazon Dams

8/19/99--Illegal Amazon Logging Targeted

8/19/99--Amazon Replanting Effort Under Way

8/19/99--Brazilian Commission Approves Mining on Indigenous Land

8/9/99--Help Protect Witnesses at Timber Baron Trial

8/4/99--Brazil Starts Campaign Against Amazon Deforestation

7/31/99--Sixty Percent of Brazil's Indigenous Peoples Have Diseases

7/23/99--As Brazil Goes, So Goes the World

7/17/99--Amazon Tribe Releases Hostages After Two-Day Detention

7/16/99--Database Details Social Projects in Brazil's Amazon

7/16/99--President Meets With Landless Movement and Releases Funds

7/6/99--Brazil Wants Cut of Biotech Firms' Jungle Plunder

7/3/99--Brazil Works on Forestry Development Program

7/2/99--Once Again FUNAI and INCRA Put Pataxo and Landless Workers in a State of Conflict

7/2/99--Boise Cascade Forms Joint Venture in Brazil

6/29/99--Raposa Serra do Sol Situation Worsens

6/28/99--Mercury, Mining and Mayhem: Slow Death in the Amazon

6/26/99--The Worldwatch Report: Amazon Hatchet Job

6/25/99--The Tocantins-Araguaia Basin: Brazil's "National Sacrifice Area"?

6/10/99--Brazil Tells Indians "Show Me the Money"

6/2/99--Urgent Campaign Established to Create Tucurui Islands Extractive Reserve

6/2/99--Brazil and Greenpeace Plan Crackdown on Amazon Logging

6/1/99--Brazil Not Using Money Destined for the Preservation of the Amazon

5/31/99--Facing Destruction, Greenpeace Launches Amazon Campaign in Brazil

5/31/99--Greenpeace Launches Global Campaign to Save Amazon

5/27/99--Brazilian Amerindians Request Statute of Indigenous Peoples

5/22/99--Assassin of Chico Mendes Given Right to Semi-Open Prison Sentence

5/22/99--Floods Leave 8000 Without Shelter in the State of Amazonas

5/21/99--Araguaia-Tocantins: Padilha Promises Solution to Environmental Barriers

5/19/99--Brazil Ends Ban on Genetically-Altered Crops

5/16/99--Brazil's Ancient Savannahs Finally Succumb

5/9/99--Group Establishes On-Line Photo Catalog for Brazilian Social Issues

4/15/99--Brazil Revokes Amazon Clearing Ban

4/9/99--Report: Amazon Rain Forest Fading

4/9/99--Amazon Forest Loss Worse than Thought

4/9/99--Brazil Relaxes Amazon Deforestation Ban

4/9/99--Amazon Forest Loss Double than That Reported

4/8/99--Damage to Brazilian Forests Underestimated, Report Says

4/7/99--More Damage to Brazilian Forests Than Previously Thought

4/7/99--Damage to Brazilian Forests Underestimated

4/14/99--Amazon Forest Loss Estimates Double

4/2/99--WWF Champions Badly Protected Brazilian Parks

4/1/99--Scientists Turn Brazilian Wasteland into Forest

4/1/99--Urgent Action Needed to Counterbalance Indigenous Area's Foes

3/31/99--Amazon Tribes Fight Patent on Sacred Vine

3/31/99--Amazon Groups Challenge US Plant Patent

3/30/99--Amazon Tribes Fight US Patent on Sacred Vine

3/26/99--WWF-Brazil Launches Campaign on Protected Areas

3/5/99--Rains Ward Off Danger of New Fires in Amazon

2/21/99--Comments About the BR-116 Duplication Project in the Serra do Cafezal Region

2/10/99--Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Jumps in 1998

2/12/99--Brazil Suspends Issuing of Amazon Clearing Permits

2/11/99--Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Jumps in 1998

2/10/99--Brazil's Slash-and-Burn Budget Cuts Chop Even Foreign Aid

2/10/99--Satellite Images of Amazon Indicate Man-made Catastrophe

1/16/99--Debt Forces Cut of Brazil Rainforest Project

1/11/99--Threat of 30 New Hydroelectric Plants in Brazil

1/9/99--NASA Planes to Participate in Amazon Global Warming Study

1/8/99--Local Politicians Threatening Violence against Indigenous People of Roraima

1/4/99--Biopirates, Plant Thieves Threaten the Amazon

1/2/99--Brazil Slashes Amazon Protection Money

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