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12/15/97--Esprit Founder Tompkins Thinking Big in Chile

12/13/97--Urgent Follow-Up Action on Belize: Help Stop Logging on Maya Lands

12/10/97--World Conservation Union Launches Bid to Save Tapirs

12/9/97--Ecuador: UN Agency May Strike Galapagos Island from World Heritage List

12/6/97--Belize, Looks Untamed but is Not

12/6/97--Panamanian Paradise Threatened by Progress

12/3/97--Action Alert: Shell and Oxy in Colombia

12/3/97--47 Million Dollars worth of Exotic Species Smuggled from Colombia

12/2/97--More Logging in Guyana

12/1/97--Visiting the Hyacinth of Brazil and Blue Throated of Bolivia

12/1/97--As Habitat Shrinks, a Shade-Grown Harvest Saves Songbirds

12/1/97--Mayans in Belize Seek IDB Help to Protect Land

11/30/97--Potential Darien Gap Road Threatens "Motherload of Biodiversity"

11/29/97--Venezuelan Amazon Indigenous Peoples Appeal for Support

11/23/97--Playa La Flor National Wildlife Refuge in Nicaragua

11/18/97--Forests along Panama Canal Face Uncertain Future

11/16/97--The Venezuela Supreme Court Suspends Mining Concessions in The Imataca Forest Reserve

11/15/97--Help Protect Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula

11/15/97--Suriname Rainforest Update

11/6/97--Help Needed to Protect Nicaragua's North Atlantic Autonomous Region

11/6/97--New York City Protest Focuses on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast Rainforest

11/1/97--Marketing Medicinal Teas in Northern Ecuador

11/1/97--Important Action Alert Concerning Costa Rica's Environment

11/1/97--Backyard Beauty Amazes Belizean Kids

11/1/97--Conservation in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Peten Guatemala

10/27/97--The Fight to Save Guyana's Forests

10/22/97--Loggers Zero in on Guyana's Rain Forests

10/20/97--Oil Companies Drilling on U'wa Lands in Colombia

10/20/97--EcoLogic News, Fall 1997

10/17/97--Hillary Clinton Visits Women's Forestry Project in Panama

10/8/97--Venezuelan Indians Battle Miners and Modern Life

10/7/97--URGENT ACTION: Support Kolla Indigenous People, Argentina

10/1/97--Esprit Founder Preserves an 800,000 Acre Park in Chile

9/19/97--Venezuelan Rainforest Imataca Faces Mining and Logging Destruction

8/24/97--Natives Say Argentina's Mountain Jungle Endangered

8/21/96--Gold Mining Companies Threaten Maroon Community of Nieuw Koffrekamp

8/10/97--The Assault on Imataca, Venezuela

8/18/97--Proposed Darien Canal on Panama and Colombia Border Raises Concern

7/23/97--Chile Fast Track Threatens Ancient Forests

7/17/97--Gold Fever in Suriname Continues

7/12/97--Ecuador Forest Communities Shut Down Mitsubishi Mine

7/10/97--U.S. Eco-Millionaire Splits Chilean Opinion Poll

7/7/97--Chile, U.S. Millionaire Sign Truce on Eco-Park

7/6/97--Assault on Venezuela's Protected Areas

7/3/97--Venezuela Indians, Politicians Protest Gold Mining

6/30/97--Guyana's Indigenous People Complain to Government about Multinational Loggers

6/25/97--Help Protect Ecuadorian Cloud Forest From Mining

6/24/97--Indigenous People Face Destruction of Land and Resettlement in Chile

6/21/97--Native Elders in Colombia Hope to Save Mother Earth

6/21/97--Salvadorans Facing Ecological Disaster

6/20/97--Mahogany Sellers, Buyers Reach Compromise

6/19/97--Greenpeace Calls for Boycott of Amazon Timber

6/18/97--Environmentalists Condemn International Failure to Protect Mahogany

6/18/97--Mahogany Fails to Get CITES Listing

6/17/97--Chile's Native Forests Increasingly Threatened

6/16/97--Cry of the Jaguar

6/13/97--Smooth Debate on Vicuna at Ivory-Dominated Meeting

6/6/97--Venezuela: Indians Protest Powerlines, Paralyse Work

5/28/97--Urgent Action Needed to Protest Extension of Forest Lands

5/19/97--Help Defensores del Bosque Chileno Save Chile's Native Forests

5/16/97--EcoLogic News, Spring 1997, Part Two of Two

5/16/97--EcoLogic News, Spring 1997, Part One of Two

5/13/97--Shell Oil Under Renewed Attack for Human Rights Abuse

5/11/97--Court Ruling Prompts Ecology Regulations

5/11/97--Save Rainforest, Says President Clinton

5/6/97--Threat to Nahua and Kugapakori Peoples in Peru

5/2/97--Kwamalasemutu Demand that Mining Companies Leave Their Land

5/1/97--Ex-Fighters Chop Guatemala Jungle

5/1/97--International Neoliberalists Set To Chainsaw Nicaragua's North Atlantic Coast

4/26/97--Irresponsible Mining and Logging Negatively Affecting Indigenous People

4/26/97--UnderMining Indigenous People and the Environment in Guyana

4/26/97--Suriname information update: Suriname Licenses Illegal Garimpeiros

4/25/97--Guyana Gives More of its Forests to Another Malaysian Logging Company

4/25/97--Mining Companies Covet Area Proposed for a Nature Reserve in Guyana

4/25/97--Mining Concessions Sought for The Kaw Mountain Range

4/25/97--Forest Deal Signed with Malaysian Logging Company

4/23/97--Maya Win Forest Protection Skirmish

4/20/97--Booming Growth May Damage Environment

4/11/97--Guyana: Legality of Huge New "Exploratory" Timber Lease Questioned

4/10/97--Legality of Exploratory Leases Questioned

4/9/97--Chile, Forests, Investment and NAFTA

4/9/97--Bolivia Still a Way to go for Full Recognition

4/7/97--Ecuadorian Indigenous Groups May Sue U.S. Government

4/2/97--Maya Need Your Help to Protect Forest

3/22/97--Beech Forest Harvest Plan Overruled

3/17/97--Power Lines InvaChilean de Venezuelan Parkland

3/16/97--Tompkins Saves the Rain Forest by Buying It

3/6/97--Yukpa Indians Threatened in Venezuela

3/5/97--Plantations Threaten Chiapas Communities

3/3/97--Chile: Can Growing Wealth Help Development

2/24/97--Treaty May Protect Mahogany

2/24/97--Amazonian Indians and Campesinos Files Suit Against Texaco

2/24/97--World Bank Loans $15 Million For Mexican Forests

2/22/97--Suriname Update

2/21/97--Central America Rainforest Project

2/21/97--United Nation Reports: Latin America Environmental Ruin "Terrible"

2/20/97--Scientists Kidnapped by Achuar Indians in Ecuador

2/19/97--Little Progress Made in Guyana Indigenous Land Recognition

2/15/97--Coffee-Growing Shift Undermines Bird Population

2/14/97--Trade Vice Minister Named

2/14/97--Costa Rica Sells Carbon Bonds to Norway

2/12/97--Malaysian Loggers Chopping Last Pristine Forests in Belize

2/8/97--Proposal to Preserve Parkland in San Salvador Divides the People

2/5/97--Misleading Statements About Niew Koffrekamp People Addressed

2/4/97--Kwamalasemutu People Want Golden Star Resources to Leave Their Land

2/4/97--Indigenous People in French Guiana Contemplate Legal Action to Protect Their Land Rights

1/31/97--Ecological Resources of the Peruvian National Park-Rio Abiseo

1/31/97--Latin American Waterway Plan Flawed

1/31/97--Chilean Timber Firms Eyeing Argentina

1/29/97--Indigenous Peoples and Maroons in Suriname Meet to Condemn Logging & Mining

1/27/97--Gold Mining in Rainforest Interior Considered

1/23/97--Government Wants Reopening of Ecuadorian Texaco Suit

1/16/97--Rainforest in Belize on Chopping Block

1/14/97--Shell Oil to Drill on Uncontacted Indian Land in Peru

1/14/97--U.S. & Bolivia Move to Protect Mahogany

1/10/97--U.S. Government Urges Protection for Amazon Mahogany

1/7/97--Millionaire's Ecological Plan in Chile Gets Chilly Reception

1/1/97--Southern Forests Sanctuary

12/30/96--Colombian Conservationists Protect Rare Elk

12/25/96--Locally Initiated Guatemalan Biodiversity Reserve Threatened

12/21/96--Douglas Tompkins Responds to Allegations

12/9/96--Maya Try to Fend Off Malaysian Timber Baron

12/9/96--Action Needed To Save Venezuela From Potential New Oil Leases

12/9/96--Plan to Protect Bolivian Rainforests and Offset Greenhouse Gases

12/7/96--Maya Indians to Washington in Bid to Defend Their Rainforests

12/6/96--Pressure to Protect Amazonas Escalates

12/3/96--Venezuela Unveils Mega-Project to Channel Rivers

12/1/96--Ecotourism Helps Maintain Guatemala's Biodiversity

12/1/96--WWF in Guatemala

11/29/96--Rain Forest Gift from Rich American Raises Chileans Doubts

11/27/96--Judge Refuses Eco-Racism Suit Against Texaco in Ecuador

11/26/96--Texaco Sued for Environmental Racism in Ecuador

11/15/96--Mexico & Quebec Sign Agreements Threatening Selva Lacandon Rainforest

11/7/96--Mayan Indigenous Peoples Question Belize's Highway Project

11/7/96--Belize's Indigenous People Question Highway Project

11/1/96--Colombia's Imperiled Choco Forest

10/31/96--America's First Demand Respect

10/31/96--Seaside Challenge in the Yucatan

10/31/96--Conservationists and Parks Officials in Fight With Local Politicians for Control of Two National Parks

10/31/96--Excessive Logging by International paper in Sierra Madre, Mexico

10/29/96--Venezuela: Amazonian Deforestation Debated in the European Parliament

10/29/96--Venezuela Urged to Protect its Last Frontier

10/28/96--Maya Land on the Chopping Block in Belize

10/26/96--Venezuelan Amazon Threatened by Resolution to Allow Mining and Logging

10/25/96--The Venezuelan Amazon Under Siege

10/12/96--Project to Virgin Ecuadorian Rainforest from Colonization

10/4/96--Chile Official Body Threatens Legal Action Against Dam

10/2/96--Penhuenche Indians Win Round One In Chilean Development Battle

9/30/96--Paraguayan Dam Victims File Complaint with Development Banks

9/14/96--Mexican Deforestation Booming Courtesy of Boise and NAFTA

9/9/96--Central American Forest Update from Eco-Exchange

9/10/96--Chilean Leader Backs U.S. Firm's Forest Project

9/9/96--Chile Fights to Save World's Rarest Plant

9/9/96--Trillium Logging Tierra Del Fuego Forest

9/3/96--Ecotourism Growing in Ecuador

9/1/96--Occidental Petroleum Hammers the Amazon in Ecuador

8/30/96--Commercial Integration in South America Iniciates the Complete Destruction of the Amazon Area

8/27/96--Maxus Oil Suspended by Ecuadorian Government

8/24/96--ChileRejects Controversial Dam Environment Report

8/5/96--Declaration of the Rio Paraguay

7/24/96--Tafua Rain Forest Reserve Information Center

7/18/96--Uruguayans Debate Sea Lion Ban

7/17/96--Ecuadoran Rain Forest Residents Sue Texaco

7/9/96--Venezuela: Amazonian Indians Request Support

7/6/96--Haiti: Environmental Degradation Deepens

7/4/96--New Danger to Rainforests and Mayan People of Belize

7/3/96--World Bank Investigation into Guatemalan Dam Massacres Welcomed

6/28/96--Venezuela Yanomami Lose Homes

6/22/96--Ecuadorian Citizens Protest Texaco's Amazon Oil Pollution

5/28/96--A Mayan Perspective on Land, Value and Economic Development in Toledo

5/26/96--Guyana Letter to the Editor

5/25/96--Last Remaining Ecuadorian Coast Forests to Be Logged

5/21/96--Timber Feeding Frenzy in Guyana

5/19/96--Asia Eyes Venezuelan Orimulsion Fuel

5/9/96--Forest Destruction or Rain Forest Reserve in Coastal Ecuador

5/9/96--Investigation Demanded into Guatemalan Dam Massacres

5/8/96--Indigenous Conference Rejects Hidrovia Mega-Project

4/29/96--Colombia's Indigenous Movement

4/27/96--Central American Forest & Environment Update

4/23/96--Latin Americans Move to Protect Turtles

4/22/96 --Chilean Native Forests Dwindle

4/19/96--Honduras Blames Killing of Forest Activist on Guatemalans

4/15/96--Plunder of Latin American Genetic Resources by the North

4/14/96--Mexican Police Kill Green Activist

4/8/96--U.S. Senators in Chile for Environment Talks

4/1/96--Destruction and Violence in Ecuadorian Oriente

3/26/96--Greenpeace Central America Welcomes Ship to Costa Rica

3/20/96--Mexico Unveils First-Ever Environment Plan

3/20/96--Mexico Defends Environmental Program

3/18/96--Guyana's Logging Freeze in Question

3/8/96--Musa Timber Company Under Fire for Environmental Destruction

3/4/96--Panama Program Protects Rights & Ecology While Limiting Burning

3/2/96--Introduced Beavers in Chile Causing Forest Damage

3/1/96--Venezuela's Island of Hope for Sea Turtles

3/1/96--Threatening a Unique Forest in Ecuador

2/28/96--Proposal to Build Haiti's Economy with Tree Planting

2/25/96--Unique Costa Rican Biodiversity Program--Genetic Royalties

2/15/96--Central American Forest & Environment Update

2/5/96--Belize, Glover's Reef Atoll

1/20/96--Central American Forest & Environment Update

1/13/96--Fire Destroys Ancient Forest

1/5/96--Battle Rages Over Destruction of Monarch Butterflies in Mexico

1/96--Critics Disappointed with Disaster Enquiry

12/95--Campaign Against Costa Rican Proposed Gold Mine

12/95--Malthion Sprayed on the Lacandon Jungle, Mexico

12/95--Peru Prospectors Defy Amazon Natives

12/95--Guyanas: Update on Mining and Logging

12/95--Peru Prospectors Defy Amazon Natives

12/95--Land Invasions Abound in the Amazon

11/95--Deforestation Out of Control in Venezuela

10/95--Venezuela's Violations of Indigenous Rights

10/95--Central American Forest & Environment Update

9/95--Georgia Pacific of US Kisses Off Guyana's Forests

9/95--Suriname: Forest Conflicts Reach Flashpoint

8/95--Costa Rican Environmental Activist Found Dead

8/95--Central American Forest & Environment Update

8/95--Disaster Cyanide Spill from Canadian Mine

8/95--Ravaging of the Surinamese Rain Forest

8/95--Call for Accountability for Poisonous Cyanide Discharge

8/95--Responding to the Omai Disaster

8/95--Environmentalists Skeptical on Paraguay's Protection of Water

8/95--Paraguay by Ship? Controversy Over Proposed Waterway

8/95--Migratory Bird Decline Worries Meeting

8/95--Peru/Occidental Petroleum Corporation Invades Candoshi Homeland

7/95--Suriname's Forests Still at Risk Despite Huge Outcry

7/95--Indigenous Response to Proposed Paraguay-Parana Megaproject

7/95--Ecuador, Texaco Sign Weak Cleanup Pact

7/95--Columbia's Illegal Wildlife Trade

6/95--Hidrovia Paraguay-Parana Dam Project

6/95--Letter Calls for Suspension of Hidrovia Project in Paraguay

6/95--Mexico: World Bank Bail Out by Cutting Environment

6/95--Central American Forest & Environment Update

5/95--Columbian Gold Mining Threatens Pacific Coast Rainforest

5/95--U.S. Executive Wants To Create 700,000 acre Chilean Park

5/95--Ecuador's Last Intact Montane Cloud Forest in Danger

5/95--Ecuador-Texaco Agreement Rejected by Amazonian Communities

4/95--RAN/War in Ecuador's Rainforest

4/95--Nicaragua/Fading Lake Managua

4/95--Central American Forest & Environment Update

4/95--Huaorani People Occupy Maxus Oil Wells in Ecuador

4/95--Ecuador Demands An Environmental Audit To MAXUS Inc.

4/95--Japanese Logging in Bolivia

4/95--Bio-Prospecting In The Amazon

2/95--One of Mexico's Last Rainforests Under Siege

2/95--Honduras: Murder Of Environmental NGO Leader

1/95--Biodiversity and the Bahamas

1/95--Venezuelan Indians Face Dispossession

1/95--Suriname: 25% of Country to be Logged

12/94--Amerindians Press Land Claims in large Barama Concession

12/94--Trees in Pastures: Some Costa Rican Ranchers Are Thinking Green

11/94--Opening Vast Pristine Forests to Industrial Forestry

11/94--Mobil Oil Threatens Peruvian Rainforest

11/94--Leaders Condemn Ecuador Settlement

10/94--Greenpeace Boat Highlights Asian MNC's Move into Guyana

10/94--Suriname: Logging to Double as 3 Asian MNC's Move In

10/94--Texaco Settles with Ecuador's Government, Not Indigenous Peoples

9/94--Costa Rica/Stone Container of Chicago Faces Setback

8/94--Chainsaws Invade Eden

8/94--Malaysian Companies Making Move into Guyana

7/94--Peru Oil News

5/94--Ecuadorian OPIP and OIL Exploration

5/94--Costa Rica/Help Stop Stone Container

4/94--Farmers Fight Costa Rican Government Over a Rare Forest

4/94--Ecuadorian Mangroves and Activists Threatened

4/94--Peruvian Amazon Threatened by Oil

3/94--Suriname: Tourism as a Tool to Conserve Native Cultures

3/94--Panama's First Map Of Last Roadless Wilderness

3/94--Belize Forest Threatened

1/94--Asian Loggers Move in on Guyana

1/94--Amerindian Peoples Association Press Release

12/93--Action on Barama, Guyana

12/93--Biologists, Villagers & Sea-Turtles

12/93--Argentina: Indians Appeal for Support Against Unjust Law

12/93--Economic Analysis of Teak Plantations in Costa Rica

12/93--Maya Indians Save Rainforest

11/93--Nicaraguan Lake Disappears

11/93--Mining Companies In Honduras

11/93--Mexico/Loggers & Narcotraffickers Destroy Indigenous Communities

11/93--Costa Rica/Stop Stone Container from Building a Wood Chip Mill

11/93--Chilean Temperate Rainforest

11/93--Oil Well Occupied in Amazonian Wildlife Reserve

11/93--Ecuador Oil Good News

11/93--Suriname: MUSA Group Invests in Forestry

11/93--Who's Who in Guyana's Forests

10/93--Ecuador's Indigenous People & Activists Call for Boycott of Texaco

10/93--Indian Seek Changes to Peru's Pending Hydrocarbons Laws

9/93--Ecuador/Cuyabeno Reserve

9/93--Peru: Oil Threatens Aguaruna

4/93--Ecuador Oil Assault

4/93--Ecuador Oil Action Alert

4/93--Stone Container to Build Central America's Largest Chip Mill

3/93--Panama's Kuna Indians Welcome Tourism Amidst Tribal Traditions

3/93--Money-Saving Banana

3/93--Honduras/Unusual Map Helps Indians Push For Land Rights

3/93--Venezuela: Ethnocide/Ecocide Protest

1/93--Costa Rican Government Thwarts Stone Container

12/92--Statistics, Environmental Numbers Tell Story

12/92--Scientists in Panama Explore Forest Canopy

12/92--Guatemala/Rainforest Destruction in Maya Biosphere Reserve

12/92--Costa Rica/"Smart Banana" Program Makes Headway

11/92--Peru: Situation Worsens On Aguaruna and Huambisa Land

10/92--Huaorani's Efforts To Halt Maxus Oil's Invasion

8/92--Huaorani Letter To Maxus President

8/92--Costa Rica Struggles With the Meaning of Ecotourism

8/92--Colombia & Panama Plan Panamerican Highway Through 'Darien Gap'

5/92--Dominican Republic: Tree Plantations Halted

5/92--Declare "El Espino" Forest a Zone of Ecological Protection

5/92--Undersea Park in Belize Becomes Test Case for Ecotourism

5/92--Ecuador: Blacks Protest Logging of Choco Forests

1/92--U.S. Corporation Threatens Last Forest Frontier In Honduras

1/92--Letter to Honduran Congress, re: Stone

1/92--Children's Rainforest Provides Sustainable Forestry Program

12/91--Guyana's Forests Next to Go

12/91--U.S. Plan to Spray Malathion in Guatemala

12/91--Panama/Texaco Drilling Rights in Panama's Caribbean Parks

12/91--Nicaragua/Taiwanese Proposal to Log

12/91--A Million to Mine Costa Rica for New Medicines

11/91--Puerto Rico/El Yunque Tropical Rain Forest

11/91--Puerto Rican Rainforest Lawsuit

10/91--Malaysian/Korean Logging Threat to Guyana

9/91--Organizacion de Pueblos Indigenas Asks for Support

8/91--Venezuela: Yanomami Biosphere Reserve Secured

7/91--Venezuela: Yanomami Biosphere Reserve

7/91--Panama, Kuna Indians Take Up Arms Against Settlers

6/91--Guatemala/When Survival Means Burning Down Rain Forest

5/91--Paraguay: Wildlife-Timber Smugglers Murder Eco-Journalist

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