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Deforestation in the Amazon 2004 editor's pick popular

http://www.mongabay.com/brazil.html

7 out of 10 stars (12 votes)

concise overview of the extent of Amazonian destruction, its causes and what can be done

Added: Jun. 22, 2004 | Rate It

Amazon Cattle Footprint editor's pick

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/amazon-cattle-footprint-mato.pdf

a Greenpeace report that discusses the relationship between cattle ranching and deforestation in Brazil (pdf)

Added: Feb. 03, 2009 | Rate It

Eating up the Amazon editor's pick

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/7555.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

Greenpeace report exposes McDonald's complicity in Amazon rainforest destruction through their use of illegally produced soya produced on deforested lands to raise their meat (pdf)

Added: Apr. 08, 2006 | Rate It

Human Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon Forests editor's pick

http://www.wri.org/publication/human-pressure-brazilian-amazon-forests

9 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a report from the World Resources Institute which compiles and analyzes a comprehensive set of geospatial indicators of human activities that lead to forest degradation and conversion

Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It

Brazil Gold Mining and Environment popular

http://www1.american.edu/TED/bragold.htm

4 out of 10 stars (10 votes)

a case study which investigates the environmental and social impacts of gold production in the Amazon region, from the American University's Trade and Environment Database

Added: Feb. 12, 2001 | Rate It

Brazil's Forests in Brief popular

http://www.globalforestwatch.org/english/brazil/index.htm

7 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

Global Forest Watch provides general information

Added: Jan. 13, 2001 | Rate It

Amazon Institute of People and the Environment (IMAZON)

http://www.imazon.org.br/pagina-inicial-en?set_language=en&cl=en

research institution whose mission is to promote sustainable development in the Amazon through studies, support for public policy formulation, broad dissemination of information and capacity building

Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It

Amazonia

http://www.amazonia.org/index.en.htm

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

research in sustainable development, biodiversity, conservation, ecology, and permaculture in the Xixua -Xiparinã Reserve, the Jauaperí Region and Amazonia in general

Added: Jan. 26, 2001 | Rate It

Amazonian Indians Native Tribes Photos and Videos

http://www.amazon-indians.org/

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides photos, videos and maps of native indigenous people from the cultures of Amazon native tribes from the South American Amazon River Basin

Added: May. 12, 2007 | Rate It

Chico Mendes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Mendes

a Wikipedia article about Chico Mendes, a Brazilian labor leader concerned about the rubber plantation workers and the Amazonian forests, who was killed for his activist role

Added: Jan. 04, 2009 | Rate It

Deforestation and Malaria in Mâncio Lima County, Brazil

http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/7/pdfs/09-1785.pdf

a report from the CDC that analyzes the data to determine if there is a relationship between the incidence of malaria and the extent of deforestation (pdf)

Added: Apr. 09, 2011 | Rate It

Grain - Soya Nexus in South America

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=493

a report about the environmental effects of the rapid spread of soya, whose oil is primarily used in the production of biofuels and animal feeds

Added: Feb. 26, 2008 | Rate It

Greenpeace: Amazon Crimes File

http://activism.greenpeace.org/amazon/index.php

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

pictorial, text and action items regarding "a war in the Amazon jungle" being perpetuated by powerful loggers, farmers and companies

Added: Dec. 17, 2003 | Rate It

Hydroelectric Dams on the Madeira River

http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/pdfs/RIO_MADEIRA.pdf

a report by Friends of the Earth International about the social and environmental threats posed by planned hydro-damns on the Madeira River -- the Amazon's largest tributary -- in Brazil (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Keeping the Amazon Forests Standing: A Matter of Values

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wnf_amazonerapport_def.pdf

a report by the WWF that places an economic value on the ecosystem services provided by tropical rainforests (pdf)

Added: Feb. 19, 2009 | Rate It

National Institute for Space Research

http://www.inpe.br/ingles/index.php

fosters science and technology in earth and space context and offers products and regular services for the benefit of Brazil

Added: Jul. 19, 2011 | Rate It

Plant a Billion Trees

http://www.plantabillion.org/

an effort by the Nature Conservancy to plant trees and restore native forests in the biodiversity rich and much threatened Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Added: Apr. 29, 2008 | Rate It

Seeing REDD in the Amazon:A Win for People, Trees and Climate

http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/17052IIED.pdf

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) describes the increased use of REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation) procedures to preserve forests in Amazonia (pdf)