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17/8/2010
In the Indian state of Orissa a drama more wild than James Cameron's imaginings has been playing out. An indigenous people, the Dongria Kondh, have spent years
protesting the plans of British-based mining giant Vedanta Resources to build a ...
4/7/2009
Stand on the muddy riverbank at Copal Urco just before dawn and it is easy to see why the Amazon breeds legends. The vast river swishes past, almost invisible in the gloom. Insect and animal noises seep from the dense blackness of the forest. The ...
6/6/2009
Peruvian Special Forces staged a violent raid early Friday on a group of indigenous people who were sleeping at a road blockade outside of Bagua in the remote northern Peruvian Amazon. At least 25 civilians are confirmed dead and over 100 were ...
5/6/2009
GELLERMAN: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood – and I'm Bruce Gellerman.
GELLERMAN: REDD...spelled R-E-D-D .... is the new green.
REDD stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. It's a UN proposal to ...
19/4/2009
A campaigner who was jailed during his battle to save the
rainforest in Gabon has received a top international award.
Marc Ona Essangui was honoured for his fight to stop what he describes as a destructive mining project in the Ivindo ...
2/10/2005
When self-confessed hippie and Innocent smoothies entrepreneur Richard Reed
travelled to the Amazon, he wasn't sure what to expect. But it certainly wasn't
Greenpeace activists with bullet-proof vests and night-vision goggles. This is ...
22/12/2003
Dr. Philip M. Fearnside, an ecologist, is a Research Professor in the
Department of Ecology at INPA – the National Institute for Research in the
Amazon, based in Manaus, a city in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon region.
Before joining ...
11/6/2003
The British government has been accused of continuing to support illegal
logging practices in Indonesia despite having made commitments to do otherwise.
Despite having made a commitment to properly implement their timber procurement ...
30/4/2002
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RAINFOREST MOVEMENT
MOVIMIENTO MUNDIAL POR LOS BOSQUES
International Secretariat
Maldonado 1858, CP 11200
Montevideo ...
21/2/2002
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W R M B U L L E T I N 55
FEBRUARY 2002
(English edition)
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- WRM bulletin (partly) in French
Friends of the Earth France has ...
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