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12/28/00 -- Amazon Indians marching to fight Peruvian intruders
12/22/00 -- Brazilians pour into cities, census shows
12/22/00 -- South American waterway on hold
12/21/00 -- Solving the Amazon's climate riddle
12/19/00 -- Race to save Amazon Basin
12/19/00 -- Bikes, Jeeps and Horses Help to Solve a Mystery of the Amazon
12/18/00 -- US team identifies Andean source of Amazon
12/18/00 -- Another (valuable) look at Amazon destruction
12/15/00 -- FSC certified "palmito" (hearts of palm) from the Brazilian Amazon is available
12/15/00 -- Brazilian fights for trees - and perfume industry
12/15/00 -- Amazon source confirmed
12/14/00 -- National Geographic Team Pinpoints Amazon Source
12/14/00 -- Brazilian Amazon environmental project gets US$248m in credit
12/07/00 -- Operation "Stay Legal Amazon" Reduces Environmental Crimes
12/06/00 -- Indian Chief Denounces American Plans to Buy Lands
11/30/00 -- Who are the Yanomami?
11/30/00 -- Global Dam Report Confirms Activists' Fears
11/30/00 -- Brazil's Pantanal wetlands declared World Heritage site
11/17/00 -- Amazon's Existence Threatened by Massive Road & Waterway Building
11/16/00 -- Brazil Quenches Some Amazon Fires
11/16/00 -- Amazonian alligator bounces back from the brink
11/13/00 -- 'Sustainable Extraction' Spreads in Amazon
11/10/00 -- Amazon vaccine claims disputed
11/09/00 -- Urban myth of the jungle
11/09/00 -- Brazil launches defense program for Amazon jungle
10/27/00 -- Inventory of Biodiversity
10/26/00 -- Indian Forest Management Project Utilises 30 Year Cycle
10/25/00 -- Yanomami Petition Against Road to Maturacá
10/24/00 -- Government Doesn't Want to Include Forests in MDL's
10/24/00 -- Brazil Begins to Discuss Possibilities of Profits from Carbon Absorption
10/22/00 -- Study Shows the Amazon is Unsuitable for Agriculture
10/21/00 -- Indians Develop Sustainable Forest Management Project in Pará
10/20/00 -- Gethal Invests US$ 1 Million in Green Seal
10/20/00 -- Forest Code Continues to Cause Controversy
10/20/00 -- First Shipment of Certified Timber
10/20/00 -- Brazil Amazon radar system to keep jungles safe
10/18/00 -- Brazil plans mass buffalo kill to help environment
10/18/00 -- Brazil Amazon radar system to keep jungles safe
10/16/00 -- Construction Company Abandons Trans-Amazonia Roadway
10/16/00 -- Macaw survival project takes flight
10/16/00 -- A New Threat to Amazon Rainforest's Treasures
10/14/00 -- Amazon Timber Stewards Busted for Bribes
10/11/00 -- Military to form New Cities in Remote Border Locations
10/10/00 -- Amazon Yanomami Tribe to Take on Cybersquatters
10/05/00 -- Government Increases Support for Certified Timber
10/03/00 -- Two More Environmental Projects for the Amazon
10/03/00 -- Paradise for pit vipers
09/30/00 -- New gold rush threatens Brazil's Yanomami Indians
09/29/00 -- Book says U.S. scientists killed Amazon Indians
09/29/00 -- NGOs to Study the Commercial Path of Brazilian Timber
09/29/00 -- FUNAI Encourages Productivity in Indian Reservations
09/28/00 -- Kayapo Demand Mahogany Money to Free Hostages
09/28/00 -- Brazil tribal wins case in federal court
09/27/00 -- Alarm sounds on animal smuggling in Brazil
09/27/00 -- Kayapo Hold Inspectors in Pará
09/27/00 -- Campaign Against Illegal Extraction of Timber
09/26/00 -- Yanomami Reservation Invaded Again
09/25/00 -- World's loneliest bird soon to meet captivity kin
09/23/00 -- Atomic Energy Commission linked to mass murder in Amazon
09/23/00 -- Amazon geneticist 'killed hundreds'
09/22/00 -- Legislation for Exploitation of National Forests
09/22/00 -- Environmental Ministry Mobilised Against Increase in Fires
09/21/00 -- Fires Devastate 15 Thousand Hectares in Pará Alone
09/18/00 -- Natural Products from the Amazon Fund
09/15/00 -- Brazil Indians Win Historic Court Case
09/14/00 -- Brazil Indians win payout after road reduces tribe
09/14/00 -- Project Helps to Understand Forest Ecosystems
09/13/00 -- Brazil values ecosystem at $2 billion
09/13/00 -- Scientists Fear Effects of Fungal Bio-Weapon on Amazonian Ecosystem
09/11/00 -- Recuperation from Roraima Fires will take 70 Years
09/11/00 -- FNMA to Finance Ecological Business Plans
09/08/00 -- Scientists Fear Effects of Fungal Bio-Weapon on Amazonian Ecosystem
09/02/00 -- IBAMA Plans to Close Down Regional Offices
08/31/00 -- Australian Acacia to be Grown for Timber in Roraima
08/29/00 -- A century later, 'lost' Amazon tribe reappears
08/27/00 -- Wildfires devastate Brazil's parks
08/23/00 -- Careful Logging Can Reduce Environmental Impact by Half
08/21/00 -- "Lost" Brazilian tribe emerges deep in Amazon
08/19/00 -- Lost tribe emerges from rainforest after 100 years
08/09/00 -- IBAMA to Facilitate the Authorisation of Sustainable Management Projects
08/09/00 -- Farmers Go to Court to Stop Demarcation
08/09/00 -- Bioamazonia Keeping Quiet About Contract Alterations
08/07/00 -- Farmers and Loggers Arm Themselves Against Demarcation
08/07/00 -- 80% of Mato Grosso Timber Companies Operating Illegally
08/06/00 -- Brazil's 'Valley of Death' breathes again, barely
08/05/00 -- Kayapos Release Hostages after being Granted Demarcation
08/05/00 -- FUNAI Has Insufficient Resources to Demarcate the Kayapo Territory
08/04/00 -- Minister of Justice Tells FUNAI to Demarcate Kayapo Territory
08/01/00 -- Indians Denounce Invasions
07/31/00 -- Protocol Enacted to Help Control Fires
07/31/00 -- ITERPA Aids in Authorising Forest Management Projects
07/31/00 -- Greenpeace stops unloading of Brazil timber
07/31/00 -- BR-364 Could Harm Nearby Indian Villages
07/30/00 -- NGOs Target Policies for the Amazon
07/30/00 -- Environmental Ministry Defends NGOs in the Amazon
07/29/00 -- Greenpeace Occupies Ship Transporting Amazonian Timber toFrance
07/29/00--French Police Arrest Greenpeace Timber Protesters
07/29/00--Greenpeace Activists Arrested Protesting Criminal Amazon Timber Trade
07/28/00--Greenpeace Protests Timber Shipment
07/28/00--Greenpeace Activists Board Ship; Condemn `Illegal' Logging
07/26/00--Amazon wood for British Museum addition may be illegal: Greenpeace
07/26/00--Renewed Drive to Fight Illegal Logging Continues
07/25/00--Update on Brazil Forest Code Revision
07/25/00--Greenpeace Occupies Ship Containing Amazonian Timber
07/25/00--Greenpeace Investigation Uncovers Illegal Timber Routes to Britain
07/24/00--Activists Board Shipment of Amazon Criminal Timber
07/24/00--Following the Trail of Illegal Rainforest Wood
07/21/00--Amazon Construction Can Resume
07/21/00--Brazil Oil Spill Blamed on Human, Technical Errors
07/20/00--Brazil stops river oil spill far from key city
07/19/00--Petrobras faces fine for oil spill
07/18/00--Brazilian Oil Giant Apologizes For 2nd Spill in Six Months
07/18/00--Brazil Suffers Major Oil Spill in South
07/18/00--Representatives of the Timber Industry Confront IBAMA
07/17/00--Industry and Nature Meet Along the Amazon
07/11/00--Brazil issues edict on natural riches
07/08/00--Environmentalists Win Victory for Amazon Rainforest
07/06/00--Timber Workers Block PA-150
07/05/00--More than 6,000 Fires in June
07/04/00--At Bottom of Amazon Lake Stands a Forest Worth a Fortune
07/04/00--Widespread Illegal Trade in Wildlife
07/03/00--Loggers, fishermen chase submerged fortunes in Amazon
07/01/00--Brazilian activists fear bio-exploitation in Amazon
06/30/00--Brazil firefighters battle Rio city forest blaze
06/28/00--American Investigator Questions Amazon Rainforest Extinctions
06/27/00--Seminar to Discuss Alternatives to Deforestation
06/27/00--Ballooning Runs Afoul in Brazil
06/26/00--International Team Zeros in on Amazon Rainforest
06/23/00--Amazon rainforest field research facility opens for ecological, global change studies
06/23/00--Brazilian Loggers Turn Tables on Greenpeace
06/22/00--Amazon Being Logged for Plywood, Protests Mount
06/21/00--Working Group will Study Alternatives to Predatory Exploitation of Forests
06/19/00--Cattle Ranching Consumes Xinguara
06/15/00--Parched Brazil backlands flower with exotic fruit
06/12/00--Brazil Installs First Environmental Court
06/12/00--NGOs Protest the Araguaia-Tocantins Waterway
06/12/00--Preserved Areas in Mato Grosso Increase to Almost 2 Million Hectares
06/11/00--BID to Invest US$11 Million in Eco-Tourism
06/11/00--Exhibit details Amazon basin
06/07/00--Brazil fires threaten monkey species close to extinction
06/05/00--Chirac Promises to Support Brazil in Preserving the Amazon
06/05/00--Growth Without Destruction
06/05/00--The 'Electronic Rumour' of the Internationalisation of the Amazon
06/03/00--Forest Code Commission Could Remain Controlled by Agriculturalists
06/01/00--Brazilians Want More forest Protection
06/01/00--Preserving the Forest Brings More Profit
05/21/00--Brazilians Hold Funeral for Amazon Rain Forest
05/18/00--Brazil Congress Shelves Controversial Amazon Bill
05/18/00--Enviros Force Brazilian Congress to Kill Destructive Rainforest Law
05/18/00--VICTORY: Historic Victory for Brazilian Amazon
05/17/00--ACTION ALERT: Stop Ranchers from Destroying more of the Amazon
05/17/00--Brazil President Vows to Fight Reduction of Amazon Reserve Area
05/17/00--President Cardoso Defends the Safety of the Amazon
05/17/00--President Cardoso Takes a Stand in Defence of Brazil's Forests
05/16/00--IBAMA Cancels Irregular Forest Management Plans in Pará
05/15/00--Amazon Region to Benefit from UNCTAD'S Biotrade Initiative 05/15/00--Legalised Deforestation
05/15/00--NGOs Initiate Demonstrations for the Amazon
05/15/00--NGOs Protest Against Agriculturalists
05/14/00--Forest Code: Moving Backward
05/14/00--10 Percent of Amazon Rainforest to be Preserved by Coalition
05/12/00--Brazilian Deputy Wants More Logging in Reserves
05/11/00--Brazilian Public Opinion is Changing: $30m to Protect Rainforest
05/11/00--Commission Approves Revised, Less Comprehensive Forestry Code
05/11/00--Environmental Groups, Brazil to Preserve 91 Mln Acres of Amazon
05/10/00--Brazil Ranchers' Caucus Cuts Protection Laws to Speed Amazon Destruction
05/04/00--Conflicting Forest Code Proposals
05/04/00--Proposal Changes Forest Code for the Worse
04/28/00--SEJUP's News from Brazil, No. 397
04/26/00--Forest Management Should Benefit All
04/25/00--IBAMA Cracks Down on Illegal Deforestation in Acre
04/25/00--Acre Leads the Way to Controlling Deforestation
04/25/00--FUNAI President Resigns and Denounces the Government
04/25/00--Agriculturalists and Environmentalists Face Off Over Commission Findings
04/25/00--Reforestation Rates Sixty-Five Percent Less
04/24/00--Cardoso Hesitates to Allocate Official Indian Lands
04/22/00--Two New Monkey Species Discovered in Brazilian Amazon
04/20/00--Brazil Holds 500-Year Fest
04/19/00--Brazil's Atlantic Forests at More Risk than Amazon, Ecologists Say
04/18/00--Conservation Groups Save Bit Of Brazilian Rain Forest
04/18/00--Area the Size of Argentina has been Destroyed
04/18/00--Forest Code Reformulated by Congressional Commission
04/18/00--Retention of Funding Increases Deforestations
04/18/00--One Third of Brazil's Forests Destroyed
04/17/00--Help Support Indigenous Pataxo's Struggle
04/15/00--Brazil Jungle Berry Drink Targets the World
04/12/00--Brazil Loses Hawaii-Sized Chunk of Amazon in 1999
04/12/00--Amazon Tree Loss Continues -- for Now at Least
04/11/00--Protecting Amazon As Market Strategy
04/11/00--Organization Joins Alliance to Stop Illegal Logging
04/10/00--Government and Timber Merchants Work Towards Easing Differences
04/02/00--Environmentalists Welcome Brazilian Amazon Reserve Package
03/31/00--Brazil Reserve Package Welcomed
03/30/00--SEJUP's News from Brazil, No. 393
03/24/00--Forest Management Begins to Change the Reality of Environmental Degradation
03/23/00--Greenpeace Proposes Amazonas Adopts 'Green Seal'
3/20/00--New Brazil Highways Expected to Destroy Forest
3/14/00--World Bank Will Expand on Brazil Land Reform Project
3/9/00--Brazilian Father Brings Modern Family to Live Among his Primitive Indian Roots
3/4/00--Brazil Employs Billion Dollar Program to Keep Eye on the Amazon
3/3/00--Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest Faces Crisis
3/3/00--GM Brazil Unit Goes Nuts Over Atlantic Rainforest
3/3/00--SEJUP's News From Brazil, No. 390
3/1/00--Where is the Timber Coming From?
3/1/00--Brazil's Northeast Atlantic Forest At Risk
2/29/00--Amazonas Timber Companies Investigated for Lawbreaking
2/28/00--Brazil Begins to Capitalize on its Biodiversity
2/28/00--Brazil's Rainforest Faces Crisis - Study
2/24/00--Environmental Minister Delivers his Proposal to CONAMA
2/23/00--Greenpeace Launches Amazon Ship to Expose Illegal Logging
2/22/00--WWF Condemns the Project to Change the Forest Code
2/22/00--Brazilian Bank Makes Natural Investments
2/18/00--SEJUP's News from Brazil
2/16/00--Extractivism Vs. Exploitation in Amazonia
2/15/00--Successful Extractivist Forest Management in Acre and Amapá
2/14/00--Rubber Tappers Returning to Acre's Forests
2/14/00--Brazil Nuts Provide Extractivists with Income
2/13/00--Permanent Biodiversity Fund for Amazonia
2/13/00--UN to Create a Group for Protection of Forests
2/8/00--Brazil Races to Avoid Oil Spill in Amazon River
2/8/00--Environmental Alert in Amazon Jungle After Oil Spill
2/7/00--Oil Barge Sinks in Amazon Basin
2/7/00--Barge With Nearly 500,000 Gallons of Oil Sinks in Northern Brazil
2/4/00--State Biodiversity Laws Will Clarify the Rules
2/4/00--SEJUP's News from Brazil
2/1/00--Timber Industry Threatened by Excessive Rain and IBAMA's Lack of Structure
2/1/00--Jose Sarney Filho Discusses Brazil´s Environmental Progress
1/31/00--Brazil Raid Highlights Illegal Wildlife Trade
1/28/00--'Ghost' Landowner Behind Much of the Devastation of Para's Environment
1/27/00--SOPREN Prez. Camilo Viana Denounces the Exploitation of Amazonia
1/26/00--Internationalisation of Amazonia Discussed
1/24/00--Proposed Forest Code Changes Yet to be Approved by Both Sides of the Issue
1/21/00--Developments in Damming of Ribeira River
1/14/00--Government Wants Indigenous Out of National Park
1/14/00--Government Wants Indigenous Out of National Park
1/12/00--Amazonia's Biodiversity Threatened by Dams
1/11/00--Park for the Preservation of the Jacare-acu
1/9/00--Project to Protect the Tracajá Enacted
06/30/00--Brazil firefighters battle Rio city forest blaze
06/28/00--American Investigator Questions Amazon Rainforest Extinctions
06/27/00--Seminar to Discuss Alternatives to Deforestation
06/27/00--Ballooning Runs Afoul in Brazil
06/26/00--International Team Zeros in on Amazon Rainforest
06/23/00--Amazon rainforest field research facility opens for ecological, global change studies
06/23/00--Brazilian Loggers Turn Tables on Greenpeace
06/22/00--Amazon Being Logged for Plywood, Protests Mount
06/21/00--Working Group will Study Alternatives to Predatory Exploitation of Forests
06/19/00--Cattle Ranching Consumes Xinguara
06/15/00--Parched Brazil backlands flower with exotic fruit
06/12/00--Brazil Installs First Environmental Court
06/12/00--NGOs Protest the Araguaia-Tocantins Waterway
06/12/00--Preserved Areas in Mato Grosso Increase to Almost 2 Million Hectares
06/11/00--BID to Invest US$11 Million in Eco-Tourism
06/11/00--Exhibit details Amazon basin
06/07/00--Brazil fires threaten monkey species close to extinction
06/05/00--Chirac Promises to Support Brazil in Preserving the Amazon
06/05/00--Growth Without Destruction
06/05/00--The 'Electronic Rumour' of the Internationalisation of the Amazon
06/03/00--Forest Code Commission Could Remain Controlled by Agriculturalists
06/01/00--Brazilians Want More forest Protection
06/01/00--Preserving the Forest Brings More Profit
05/21/00--Brazilians Hold Funeral for Amazon Rain Forest
05/18/00--Brazil Congress Shelves Controversial Amazon Bill
05/18/00--Enviros Force Brazilian Congress to Kill Destructive Rainforest Law
05/18/00--VICTORY: Historic Victory for Brazilian Amazon
05/17/00--ACTION ALERT: Stop Ranchers from Destroying more of the Amazon
05/17/00--Brazil President Vows to Fight Reduction of Amazon Reserve Area
05/17/00--President Cardoso Defends the Safety of the Amazon
05/17/00--President Cardoso Takes a Stand in Defence of Brazil's Forests
05/16/00--IBAMA Cancels Irregular Forest Management Plans in Pará
05/15/00--Amazon
Region to Benefit from UNCTAD'S Biotrade Initiative
05/15/00--Legalised Deforestation
05/15/00--NGOs Initiate Demonstrations for the Amazon
05/15/00--NGOs Protest Against Agriculturalists
05/14/00--Forest Code: Moving Backward
05/14/00--10 Percent of Amazon Rainforest to be Preserved by Coalition
05/12/00--Brazilian Deputy Wants More Logging in Reserves
05/11/00--Brazilian Public Opinion is Changing: $30m to Protect Rainforest
05/11/00--Commission Approves Revised, Less Comprehensive Forestry Code
05/11/00--Environmental Groups, Brazil to Preserve 91 Mln Acres of Amazon
05/10/00--Brazil Ranchers' Caucus Cuts Protection Laws to Speed Amazon Destruction
05/04/00--Conflicting Forest Code Proposals
05/04/00--Proposal Changes Forest Code for the Worse
04/28/00--SEJUP's News from Brazil, No. 397
04/26/00--Forest Management Should Benefit All
04/25/00--IBAMA Cracks Down on Illegal Deforestation in Acre
04/25/00--Acre Leads the Way to Controlling Deforestation
04/25/00--FUNAI President Resigns and Denounces the Government
04/25/00--Agriculturalists and Environmentalists Face Off Over Commission Findings
04/25/00--Reforestation Rates Sixty-Five Percent Less
04/24/00--Cardoso Hesitates to Allocate Official Indian Lands
04/22/00--Two New Monkey Species Discovered in Brazilian Amazon
04/20/00--Brazil Holds 500-Year Fest
04/19/00--Brazil's Atlantic Forests at More Risk than Amazon, Ecologists Say
04/18/00--Conservation Groups Save Bit Of Brazilian Rain Forest
04/18/00--Area the Size of Argentina has been Destroyed
04/18/00--Forest Code Reformulated by Congressional Commission
04/18/00--Retention of Funding Increases Deforestations
04/18/00--One Third of Brazil's Forests Destroyed
04/17/00--Help Support Indigenous Pataxo's Struggle
04/15/00--Brazil Jungle Berry Drink Targets the World
04/12/00--Brazil Loses Hawaii-Sized Chunk of Amazon in 1999
04/12/00--Amazon Tree Loss Continues -- for Now at Least
04/11/00--Protecting Amazon As Market Strategy
04/11/00--Organization Joins Alliance to Stop Illegal Logging
04/10/00--Government and Timber Merchants Work Towards Easing Differences
04/02/00--Environmentalists Welcome Brazilian Amazon Reserve Package
03/31/00--Brazil Reserve Package Welcomed
03/30/00--SEJUP's News from Brazil, No. 393
03/24/00--Forest Management Begins to Change the Reality of Environmental Degradation
03/23/00--Greenpeace Proposes Amazonas Adopts 'Green Seal'
3/20/00--New Brazil Highways Expected to Destroy Forest
3/14/00--World Bank Will Expand on Brazil Land Reform Project
3/9/00--Brazilian Father Brings Modern Family to Live Among his Primitive Indian Roots
3/4/00--Brazil Employs Billion Dollar Program to Keep Eye on the Amazon
3/3/00--Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest Faces Crisis
3/3/00--GM Brazil Unit Goes Nuts Over Atlantic Rainforest
3/3/00--SEJUP's News From Brazil, No. 390
3/1/00--Where is the Timber Coming From?
3/1/00--Brazil's Northeast Atlantic Forest At Risk
2/29/00--Amazonas Timber Companies Investigated for Lawbreaking
2/28/00--Brazil Begins to Capitalize on its Biodiversity
2/28/00--Brazil's Rainforest Faces Crisis - Study
2/24/00--Environmental Minister Delivers his Proposal to CONAMA
2/23/00--Greenpeace Launches Amazon Ship to Expose Illegal Logging
2/22/00--WWF Condemns the Project to Change the Forest Code
2/22/00--Brazilian Bank Makes Natural Investments
2/18/00--SEJUP's News from Brazil
2/16/00--Extractivism Vs. Exploitation in Amazonia
2/15/00--Successful Extractivist Forest Management in Acre and Amapá
2/14/00--Rubber Tappers Returning to Acre's Forests
2/14/00--Brazil Nuts Provide Extractivists with Income
2/13/00--Permanent Biodiversity Fund for Amazonia
2/13/00--UN to Create a Group for Protection of Forests
2/8/00--Brazil Races to Avoid Oil Spill in Amazon River
2/8/00--Environmental Alert in Amazon Jungle After Oil Spill
2/7/00--Oil Barge Sinks in Amazon Basin
2/7/00--Barge With Nearly 500,000 Gallons of Oil Sinks in Northern Brazil
2/4/00--State Biodiversity Laws Will Clarify the Rules
2/4/00--SEJUP's News from Brazil
2/1/00--Timber Industry Threatened by Excessive Rain and IBAMA's Lack of Structure
2/1/00--Jose Sarney Filho Discusses Brazil´s Environmental Progress
1/31/00--Brazil Raid Highlights Illegal Wildlife Trade
1/28/00--'Ghost' Landowner Behind Much of the Devastation of Para's Environment
1/27/00--SOPREN Prez. Camilo Viana Denounces the Exploitation of Amazonia
1/26/00--Internationalisation of Amazonia Discussed
1/24/00--Proposed Forest Code Changes Yet to be Approved by Both Sides of the Issue
1/21/00--Developments in Damming of Ribeira River
1/14/00--Government Wants Indigenous Out of National Park
1/14/00--Government Wants Indigenous Out of National Park
1/12/00--Amazonia's Biodiversity Threatened by Dams
1/11/00--Park for the Preservation of the Jacare-acu
1/9/00--Project to Protect the Tracajá Enacted
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