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South & Central America Rainforest Conservation News & Information, 1999 & 1998

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12/29/99--Colombian Indigenous Group Takes Protest Abroad

12/29/99--Foundation Creates New Park in Caribbean Island of Dominica

12/26/99--Bolivian Pipeline is Destroying Tropical Forests

12/23/99--Argentina: Wildlife Tracked Via Satellite

12/21/99--Deforestation, Climate Change & Poverty Aggravate Latin America Floods

12/19/99--Venezuela flood death toll put in thousands

12/17/99--Uncontacted Peoples Threatened by Logging Concession in Peru

12/17/99--VICTORY: Massive Temperate Rainforest Logging Project in Chile Called Off

12/17/99--Can Whales Live in Harmony with Salt Plant

12/12/99--Venezuelan Wildlife Being Destroyed

12/8/99--U.S. Researcher Says Biodiversity Project Threatened

12/5/99--Colombia: Indigenous Tribe Marches, Occupies Flood Plain

12/2/99--Letter to U.S. State Department on Mahogany Decision

11/29/99--Study Finds Salt Plant Won't Harm Gray Whales

11/29/99--UN Report Says Mitsubishi Salt Plan Threatens Biosphere Reserve

11/24/99--Update on Brazilian Mahogany and Letter to U.S. Policy Makers

11/21/99--New Battery to Energize Peruvian Villages

11/21/99--Colombian Indians Seize Oil Wells on Their Ancestral Homelands

11/21/99--Mexican Biosphere Reserve Threatened by Saltworks

11/21/99--Mexican Saltworks Raises Ecology Concern

11/21/99--Reforestation Improving Canal Area In Panama

11/17/99--U’wa Culture in Columbia Threatened by Occidental Oil

11/16/99--Ban on Wildlife in Guyana Continues Despite Opponents

11/2/99--Save Costa Rica's Rainforest

10/29/99--Trail System Proposed for Central America

10/27/99--Animals Flourish in the Mexican Cement Jungle

10/14/99--Guyana Faces Ban on Exotic Birds

10/9/99--Costa Rica Rewards Sustainable Tourism

10/1/99--Panama to Protect San Lorenzo Forest

11/11/99--Venezuela's New Constitution to Include Indigenous

11/8/99--CITES Listing for Brazilian Mahogany Sought

11/7/99--Amazonian Group Savors Victory Over U.S. Plant Patent

11/5/99--Patent Halted for Traditionally Used Amazonian Hallucinogenic Plant

11/5/99--U.S. Cancels Patent on Sacred Amazonian Plant

11/4/99--Amazon Indigenous Win Patent Dispute Over Ayahuasca

11/4/99--U.S. Patent Office Cancels Patent on Amazonian Plant "Ayahuasca"

10/21/99--Occidental Oil Pressures Secoya in Ecuador

10/19/99--Mining Survey in Ecuador Breaks World Bank Protocol

10/12/99--Help Stop Deforestation in the Choco, Colombia

10/12/99--Colombia OKs Oil Drilling on U’wa Land

10/12/99--Guns and Oil for Colombia Spark Protests in 21 Cities Across Globe

10/10/99--Chilean Court OKs Boise Cascade Plant

10/7/99--Gore Urged to Stop Bolivia-Brazil Pipeline

10/3/99--Victory: Bolivian Timber Company Sells Lands to Park

10/2/99--Help Stop Mining Exploration in Ecuador Reserve

10/1/99--Conservation International Lands Giant Bolivian Parks Deal

9/30/99--Pristine Amazon Jungle Threatened by Big Oil Firm

9/30/99--Venezuelan Indians Protest Power Line in Forest

9/29/99--Peru Listed Number One in Domesticated Native Plants

9/28/99--Mexican Area of Strategic Biodiversity in Danger

9/27/99--Future of Colombia’s Embera Katio People Will Be Drowned By New Dam

9/23/99--Ads by Ecuadoran Plaintiffs Accuse Texaco of Racism

9/22/99--Colombia Rejects 'Cultural Genocide' Claim, OKs Oil Drilling Near Indian Land

9/22/99--Oil Exploration Permit Angers Colombian Tribe

9/22/99--Colombia Indians Vow Fight to Death Over Oil

9/21/99--Colombia Allows Oil Exploration on U’wa Land

9/19/99--Andean Condors Defy Extinction; Californian Cousins Comeback Slowly

9/17/99--Medicinal Trees Disappearing in Ecuador

9/13/99--Chilean Logging Interests Steal Indigenous Birthright

9/12/99--Action Needed to Protect Nicaragua's Imperiled Forests

9/12/99--Ambitious Plan to Protect Biodiversity in the Americas

9/10/99--Chiapas, Mexico Villages and Biosphere Reserve Threatened

9/9/99--South America Ablaze

9/7/99--Top Mexican Writer Does His Bit to Save the Trees

9/6/99--Help Keep the Bulldozers out of Ecuadorian Amazon Biological Station

9/5/99--Honduras Protects Forests by "Selling" Oxygen

9/2/99--Fire Threatens Peru National Park

8/31/99--Ecuador Rainforest Pays the Price of Texaco Oil Production

8/27/99--Jailed Timber-Cutting Foe Seen as Guerrilla by Mexico Officials

8/26/99--Mexican Butterfly Reserve Logged

8/26/99--Colombian Indians Expand Territory

8/25/99--Colombia Indians to Fight on Against Oil Firm

8/25/99--Ecotourism Takes Root in Argentina's Patagonia

8/24/99--Culture of Fire: One Guatemalan's Fight Against Slash-and-Burn Farming

8/23/99--Bolivia Fires Destroy 350,000 Acres

8/20/99--Bolivian Amazon Ablaze

8/20/99--Colombian Indians Get New Reserve in Oil Zone

8/19/99--Guyana: Gold Mine and Residents Up in Arms Again

8/17/99--Free Mexican Ecologist from Jail

8/16/99--Nicaraguan Logging Moratorium Canceled Amidst Controversy

8/16/99--Protection Sought for Butterfly in Mexico

8/10/99--Cuba Says Forest Cover Rises to One Fifth of Island

8/10/99--Will the National Parks of Argentina Reach the Next Millennium?

8/6/99--Chilean Plan to Help Indigenous People

8/6/99--Overview of Forest Situation in Guerrero, Mexico

8/4/99--Endangered Parrot Finds New Life in Colombia

8/1/99--Action Alert: Bolivian Rainforests Allocated Without Indigenous Consent

7/28/99--Ecuador's Mangroves Need Protection from Shrimp Farmers

7/27/99--Bolivian Locals Fight Pipeline in Unique Forest

7/25/99--Erosion of Native Forests Continues in Chile

7/21/99--Concern over Environmental Conservation Program in Eastern Bolivia

7/21/99--Guyana's Commission States Indigenous Peoples Make Some Progress

7/20/99--Guyana Grants Eight Million Acre Mining Concession

7/20/99--Ecuador Military Detains Environmentalists Checking on Oil Spill

7/16/99--Indigenous Groups Unite in Struggle Against Oil Exploration

7/15/99--Ecuadorian Indigenous Group Takes on US Oil Giant

7/7/99--Galapagos Ecosystem on the Edge of Collapse

7/6/99--Ecuadorian Natives in Oil Zones Suffer High Cancer Rate

7/3/99--U'wa Chieftans Carry Eco-Fight to Doorstep of Corporate America

7/3/99--Ecuadorean Forest Affected by Oil Activities

7/3/99--Action Alert: Venezuelan Forests Threatened by Power Line Construction

6/27/99--Colombian Environmental Protections and Indigenous Rights Under Siege

6/26/99--Outrage Growing over Chilean Forest Mega-Project

6/17/99--Mexican Farmers Who Resisted Boise Cascade Jailed, Two Killed

6/17/99--OPIC Oks $200 Million Loan for Bolivian Natgas Pipeline

6/15/99--U.S. Lawmakers Want to Stop Money for Bolivian Natural Gas Pipeline

6/15/99--Smugglers Decimating Colombia's Wildlife

6/15/99--Urgent Action Required on Colombian Drilling Licenses

6/14/99--Stop Financing of Tropical Forest Destruction in Bolivia

6/10/99--Argentina to Plant 180,000 Hectares of Trees in 1999

6/10/99--More Laws Needed to Protect Trinidad and Tobago's Environment

6/5/99--Illegal Logging Still Continues in Pino Gordo, SMA Says

6/4/99--Costa Rican Forests Endangered by Diversion of Funds

6/3/99--Future of Costa Rican Forests Jeopardized by Transfer of Funds

6/3/99--Ecuador-Peru Start Work on "Park of Peace"

6/2/99--Pipeline Leak in Ecuador Damages Environment Again

6/1/99--Mexico Courts Forest Disaster

5/26/99--Orinoco Crocodile Gets Venezuelan Lifeline

5/26/99--Hurricane Mitch Devastation 'Man Made'

5/23/99--Condors Again Flying Over Andes

5/21/99--Legal Actions Against Boise Cascade in Chile

5/21/99--Cuban Fires Jeopardize Reforestation Program

5/17/99--Coastal Erosion Takes its Toll in Trinidad and Tobago

5/16/99--Chilean Tribal Leader Arrested Over Report

5/14/99--Columbia Eases Environment Norms in Oil Industry

5/13/99--Ecuador: Amazonians Protest Pollution Precedence

5/13/99--New Funding Backs Suriname Forest Protection

5/8/99--Stop Violation of Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Guyana

5/6/99--Action Status Report on Boise Cascade's Chile Project

5/6/99--Action Status Report on Boise Cascade's Chile Project

5/4/99--Mexico: Locals Say Army Plundering Lacandona Jungle

5/4/99--Mexican Army Raiding Lacandona Jungle, Locals Say

5/3/99-- Columbia Tribe Threatens Suicide Over Oil Drilling

4/28/99--Ejido Pino Gordo Journal: All Across Mexico, A Chainsaw Massacre of Trees

4/28/99--Mexican Indians Make Stand for Trees; Sit-in Halts Illegal Logging in 200-Year-Old Forest

4/24/99--Mexican Group Cites Logging Threat to Butterflies

4/23/99--Action Alert: Last Chance for Pino Gordo

4/21/99-- Eco-Protests Erupt at Boise Cascade AGM Over Chilean Plans

4/18/99--Action Alert: Ecuador Protects Two National Parks

4/16/99--Chilean Lawyer Goes to Boise Cascade Shareholder Meeting

4/15/99-- Indigenous Peoples of Venezuela Declare an Emergency

4/9/99-- Chile: Tension with Indians High as Talks Fall Flat

4/8/99--Nicaraguan Jungle Foments Land Rights Battle

4/5/99--Indigenous Resistance to Deforestation Occurs in Chile

4/1/99--Occidental Oil Pipeline Bombings Are Sign of Tragically Misguided Development Model

3/31/99-- Columbian Oil Pipeline Bombing Sign of Misguided Development Model

3/29/99--Chile: The Forestry Model in Big Trouble

3/21/99-- Peruvian Reforestation Has Social Impacts

3/18/99--Illegal Logging Threatens Costa Rica's Primary Forests

3/18/99--Centro Humboldt Celebrates Nicaraguan Environmental Victories

3/17/99-- Loggers and Police Attack Mapuche Communities in Chile

3/15/99-- Boise-Cascade Threatens Chile's Ancient Forests

3/12/99--Support U'wa People Against Occidental Petroleum

3/11/99--Hurricane Mitch's Destruction Was an Act of Man, Not God

3/9/99-- Activist Killed in Columbia Defending Rainforest

3/7/99-- Chilean Government to Address One-Third of Indigenous Claims

3/8/99-- Oil Plans on Colombia Samore Block Still Uncertain

3/6/99-- Save the Ancient Temperate Rainforests of Chile

3/2/99-- Chile: Government Accused of Undermining Indigenous Rights

2/27/99--Save Our Forests and Jungles, Mexican Leader Says

2/11/99--Ministry to Decide on Oil License for U'wa Land in Colombia

2/11/99--Logging Companies Blamed for Forest Fires in Chile

2/10/99--Colombian Indigenous People Killed Opposing Dam

2/8/99--Ecuador Pipeline Breakdown Damages Environment

2/2/99--Texaco Says Ecuadoran Indian Lawsuit doesn't Belong in U.S. Courts

2/2/99--Fewer Butterflies Appear in Mexico

2/1/99--Ecuador Declares Two Rainforest Parks off limits to Oil Drilling

1/31/99--Two National Parks in Ecuador Off Limits to Drilling, Mining

1/31/99--Ecuador Protects Huge Swath of Amazon Jungle

1/31/99--Puerto Rican Citizens Rally to Save Forest

1/29/99--Action Alert: World's Largest Timber Mill for Chile

1/21/99--Boise Cascade Plans Mill in Heart of Chile's Endangered Forests

1/19/99--Nicaragua gets Sustainable Forestry Investment

1/18/99--Honduras begins Replanting Forest on Hurricane Destroyed Island

1/13/99--Panama Development Model Mars Quality of Life

1/11/99--Ecotourism, Rich Soil for Foreign Investment in Mexico

1/6/99--Fighting to Keep the Mangrove Forest in Puerto Rico

12/26/98--Panama Hopes to Turn Canal into World's Premier Ecotourism Resort

12/21/98--Rural Development in Costa Rica Based on Tree

12/21/98--Chile Nature Reserve Threatened by Mining Interests

12/19/98--Haiti Becomes a Caribbean Desert

12/18/98--Mexico's Lacandon Indians Caught between Two Eras

12/14/98--Mexico under Fire for Compromising Ecology for Tourism

12/8/98--Ecotourism Trapped between Biodiversity and Insecurity in Colombia

12/4/98--Chip Plant Threatens Chilean Ecosystem

12/2/98--Illegal Logging may Destroy Monarchs' Winter Range in Mexico

11/31/98--Climate Treaty Backers Hope Argentina Spurs U.S

11/30/98--Hurricane Mitch Damage Needs Continued Response in Nicaragua

11/26/98--Guyana Mining Activities Taking a Toll

11/25/98--Clearcutting and Landslides in Honduras

11/21/98--Deforestation Worsened Impact of Hurricane Mitch

11/18/98--Hurricane Mitch Devastation Linked to Deforestation in Nicaragua

11/18/98--Case Against Texaco Resumes in Ecuador

11/17/98--Ecuadorian Government Betrays Its People and the Amazon

11/17/98--Chile Salmon Farmers Fear Forest and Mine Projects

11/17/98--Citizens Protest Boise Cascade Wood Chipping Plan for Chile

11/17/98--Chile Reports Drops in Exports of Forest Products

11/10/98--Indigenous Peoples in Guyana File Historic Law Suit

11/10/98--The Deadly Cocktail in Central America Deforestation and Climate Change

11/9/98--Rainforest National Park to Open in French Guiana

11/5/98--5.1 Million Acre Mining Concession on Indigenous Lands in Guyana

11/3/98--Central America's Environmental Decline

10/28/98--Ecuadorian Indians Take Stand Against Oil

10/25/99-- European Parliament Adopts Resolution to Curb Logging and Mining in the Amazonas

10/19/98--Organic Colombian Coffee to Help Preserve Rain Forest

10/19/98--Mexico Acts to Protect its Burned Forests

10/18/98--Chilean Beech Forest Harvest on Hold

10/16/98--Venezuelan Indians Defy Rainforest Slashing Power Line

10/14/98--New Protection for Mexico's Threatened Forests

10/6/98--Texaco Suit Reinstated by Indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Peru

10/6/98--Too Many of the Same Trees Hurt the Environment in Mercosur

10/5/98--Amazon Cooperation Council Meets in Brazil to Discuss Rainforest Protection

9/21/98--Cuba Legislates Forest Protection

9/21/98--Deforestation Contributed to Mexican Flooding in Chiapas State

9/20/98--Unique Rainforest Program with Powerful Message in Guyana

9/7/98--French Guiana Indigenous Peoples Demand Land Rights in National Park

9/6/98--Development Threatens Venezuela Rainforest

9/3/98--Protect Imataca Forest Reserve in Venezuela

9/2/98--Public Pressure Behind Shell's Decision to Leave Peru

9/1/98--New Painkilling Drug Found in Ecuadorian Rainforest Frog

8/26/98--Venezuelan Power Line Blockaders Assaulted

8/24/98--Indigenous Peoples Object to National Park Project

8/19/98--Deforesting Chile

8/18/98--Chile's Native Temperate Rainforest Crisis

8/13/98--Venezuelan National Guard Stops Power Line Blockade

8/11/98--Tensions Rise in Amazon as The Pemon Indians Fight Mines in Venezuela

8/5/98--Protect the Safety of Indigenous Peoples Protesting Imataca Powerline

8/3/98--Argentina Battles a Plague of Eager Beavers

8/1/98--Saramacca Maroons Seek Recognition of Their Land Rights in Suriname

8/1/98--Mexico Army Aids Reforestation after Severe Fires

7/31/98--Environment Minister Agrees to Act on Illegal Shrimp Farms

7/31/98--Losing Costa Rica's Forest Conservation Incentives

7/30/98--Greenpeace Action to Restore Destroyed Mangrove Forests

7/30/98--U.S. Utilities Turn to Paraguay's Green Hell to Absorb Gases

7/30/98--Pemon Indians in Venezuela Protest Power Project by Blocking Highway

7/28/98--Venezuelan Indigenous Groups Block Brazil Highway to Protest Power Line

7/27/98--United States Gives Nicaragua 14 Million for Conservation

7/25/98--Grave Menace for the Native Forests in Chile

7/24/98--Peru Indians Protest Shell Pullout

7/17/98--Shell, Mobil May Yet Return To Peru's Camisea Project

7/15/98--Report Quantifies Wildfire Damage in Central America

7/7/98--Globalization Meets Indigenous Opposition in Nicaraguan Rainforest

7/2/98--Greenpeace Urges Argentina to Protect Highland Rainforest

6/26/98--Devastating Mexican Forest Fire Under Control

6/25/98--Central American Environment Ministers Seek Air Power to Fight Fires

6/19/98--Mexico and U.S. Governments Find Common Ground Fighting Fire

6/18/98--Tenth of Suriname to be Off-Limits to Loggers

6/17/98--Suriname Rain Forest To Get One Million for Nature Reserve

6/15/98--Mexico Close to Taming Rain Forest Fire

6/14/98--El Salvador on Brink of Environmental Disaster

6/14/98--Record Fires Ravage Mexico's Last Virgin Jungle

6/12/98--Forests Bypassed by Jamaican Parliament

6/11/98--Rains Helping Extinguish Fires in Southern Mexico

6/11/98--Mother of the Earth Stands up to Argentine Pipeline

6/11/98--Unknown Bird Spotted in the Ecuadorian Andes

6/11/98--Fires Continue to Spread in Mexican Rain Forest

6/11/98--Mexico Nearly Beats Rainforest Fires but Damage Done

6/10/98--Yasuni National Park in Ecuador Needs Protection From Oil Drilling

6/9/98--In the Amazon of Pastaza, Ecuador The Wise Ones Make a Wise Choice

6/9/98--Help to Ecuadorian Protect Unesco Reserve from Oil Exploitation

6/9/98--Mexican Fire Catastrophe

6/8/98--Chilean Activists Arrested in Logging Protest

6/5/98--Chileans Arrested for Protesting Approval to Log Tierra del Fuego

6/5/98--Activists Vow to Continue Fight to Prevent Logging in Chile's Forests

6/5/98--Slash and Burn Farming Engulfs Guatemala in Flames

6/4/98--Mexican Environment Under Siege but Improving

6/4/98--Help Save Venezuelan Imataca Reserve

6/2/98--Clinton Gets Whiff of Mexico Fires

6/1/98--New Measures Planned to Prevent Logging in Chile's Tierra del Fuego

5/30/98--The Burning of Central America and Breathing Mexican air

5/29/98--Occidental Petroleum Will Give up Oil Search on U'wa Land

5/29/98--Ecuador's Yasuni National Park under Oil Exploration Threat

5/28/98--U'WA in Colombia Still Threatened By Oil Project

5/28/98--Half of Mexico City Residents Suffering from Smog

5/26/98--Costa Rica Plans to Turn Rain Forests Into Greenbacks

5/26/98--Eco-Activists Try to Find a Political Niche in Chile

5/25/98--Protect Imataca Forest Reserve in Venezuela

5/23/98--United States Helps Fight Fires Menacing Mexico Rain Forest

5/22/98--Remote Mexican Jungle Faces Grave Fire Threat

5/13/98--Honduras Air Traffic Cut Off by Forest Fires

5/12/98--Mexican Forest Fires Smoke Reaches the United States

5/12/98--Surinamese Government Refuses to Recognize Indigenous and Maroon Land Rights

5/10/98--Forest Fires Continue in Mexico Threaten Jungle

5/6/98--Mexico Battles to Save Forests from Fires

5/6/98--Destruction of Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica

5/5/98--Mexico Forest Fires Kill 23, Hundreds Evacuated

5/4/98--It is Not Accidental that Occidental Petroleum is in Ecuador

5/3/98--Suriname Maroons Say No to Multinational Logging

5/1/98--Colombia Tribe Leader Takes Message to Occidental Petroleum

4/30/98--Mexican Jungle is Going up in Smoke

4/29/98--Nicaragua Goes Zero Cut on Certain Grades of Wood

4/29/98--Forest Principles from the People for Hemispheric Integration

4/28/98--Chileans Ask for Help to Stop Trillium Logging Projects on Tierra del Fuego

4/28/98--Oil Road threatens World Famous Amazon Research Station and Reserve in Ecuador

4/28/98--Forest Fires Ravages Pines in Western Cuba

4/27/98--Hemispheric Forest Alliance Formed to Combat Economic Globalization Threats

4/26/98--Illegal Logging Discovered in Guyana

4/25/98--Guyana Update: 98 Budget Focuses on Expanded Resource Exploitation

4/25/98--Costa Rica to Save Forest with Carbon Credits

4/24/98--Jaguars and Gas Pipeline Divide Chilean Andean Community

4/24/98--Hemispheric Forest Alliance Formed to Combat Economic Globalization Threats

4/24/98--Help Needed in Ecuador Amazon to Stop Oil Road Through Reserve

4/23/98--Its Not Accidental that Occidental Petroleum is in Ecuador

4/23/98--Seven Arrested at Oxy Protest in Colombia

4/23/98--Guatemalan Peasants Combat Wildfires with Shovels

4/22/98--Seven Arrested at Earth Day Protest for Colombia U'wa's

4/22/98--It is Not Accidental That Occidental is in Ecuador

4/20/98--South American Jungles Face United States Toxic Rain

4/20/98--Tribal Chief Wins Environmental Prize

4/19/98--FTAA Incompatible with Sustainable Development

4/18/98--NAFTA Problems Cause Opposition to Free Trade Expansions

4/15/98--Logging Increase in Guyana

4/14/98--New Campaign Targets Amazon Oil Investors and Consumers

4/11/98--Mexican Forests going up in Smoke in Dry Season

4/9/98--Twenty Hostages Released in Oaxaca over Illegal Logging Dispute

4/7/98--Sign-On Letter to Protest Unsustainable Logging in Guyana

4/7/98--Can Economics Save Suriname Rainforest?

4/6/98--Report Warns of Ecological Havoc in South America Forests

4/3/98--U.S. Agency Criticized Over Amazon Plant Patient

4/3/98--Conservation and Deforestation in Costa Rican Parks

4/1/98--Pikin Slee Village in Suriname Joins Together to Protect Forest

3/31/98--International Mangrove Defence Campaign in Ecuador

3/27/98--Sparks Fly in Costa Rican Forest Debate

3/24/97--World Wildlife Fund Calls on Government to Maintain Order in Galapagos, Ecuador

3/22/98--Venezuela Joins Fight Against Amazon Fires

3/12/98--Government OKs Protection for Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

3/11/98--Bolivia Climate Change Project Finalized

3/11/98--Pipeline Through Argentina's Yungas Jungle Threatens Jaguar

3/9/98--Logging and El Nino Linked to Monarch Butterfly Deaths

3/10/98--The Patent on the Sacred Plant Ayahuasca

3/2/98--Concession of Solcarsa Terminated in Nicaragua

3/1/98--Logging Stopped in Nicaragua, Stop Logging on Mayan Lands in Belize

2/16/98--Savia Awaiting Ok for Logging on Tierra del Fuego Island

2/12/98--Mahogany's Popularity Threatens Rain Forests

2/1/98--Illegal Logging Activity in Honduras

1/30/98--Chile OKs Trillium's Disputed Logging Project in Tierra Del Fuego

1/28/98--Chilean Government Gives Second Approval to Sustainable Forestry

1/28/98--Oil Destruction Set to Begin in Pastaza, Ecuador

1/21/98--Chilean Frontier Forest as Risk from Trillium Corporation

1/20/98--Court Order Halts Hidrovia Paraguay

1/18/98--Letter to Belize Concerning Logging in Colombia River Forest

1/14/98--Occidental Petroleum Pressuring Secoyan People in Ecuador to Sell Drilling Rights

1/13/98--Tribunal Calls for Full Compensation for Cyanide Victims

1/6/98--Help to Preserve Rainforests, Stop Logging in Nicaragua

1/5/98--Nicaragua's Tropical Rainforest in Peril


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