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12/20/97--Amazon Scientists Warn of "Bio-Piracy" of Medicinal Plants

12/18/97--Government Promises to Protect 10% of Forests by Year 2000

12/17/97--Bad Amazon News: Deforestation Up 21% in Rondonia & Fires Intensify

12/10/97--Pro-Yanomani Commission Update 9596

12/9/97--Fears of a Fiery Amazon Nightmare

12/5/97--Indigenous Lands Invaded by Logging, Illegal Mining and Ecotourism

12/2/97--Publication of Amazon Deforestation has been delayed

12/2/97--Government Hides Deforestation Data for FHC UK Trip, Kyoto

12/1/97--Amazon Fires Increase over 50% between 1996-1997

11/29/97--Brazil Legalizes Indigenous Land Titles

11/28/97--More Fires by Farmers Raise Threat to Amazon

11/24/97--Tuberculosis Threatens Amazon Indians

11/23/97--Amazon Nations to Discuss Rain Forest Development

11/21/97--El Nino Strikes Deep Into Amazonia

11/20/97--SEJUP: Reports on Forest Destruction

11/20/97--Lumber Merchants need to be Controlled

11/13/97--Judge Rules that Federal Administration to Indemnify Krenhakarore Indians

11/12/97--Brazil Establishes World's Largest Rainforest Reserve

11/8/97--World Forest Institute Conference Yields Different Picture of the Industry

11/6/97--Demarcation of Land Areas is Intended to Meet Economic Interests

11/6/97--Amazon Deforestation Endangers Entire Tropical Forest

11/6/97--Criteria and Indicators for the Amazon Forests

11/6/97--Activists Disrupt Trade Conference to Save Amazon

11/2/97--More Fires by Farmers Raise Threat to Amazon

11/2/97--Brazil Considers Logging National Forests

11/2/97--G7 Agrees Funding for Amazon Conservation Plan

10/31/97--Fires Spread Over Drought-parched Amazon Rainforest

10/30/97--PPG-7 Assesses Support to Projects

10/30/97--Pilot Program for the Conservation of Rain Forests Assesses Support for Amazon

10/28/97--U.S. Gives $30 Million for Brazilian Rainforest

10/28/97--Brazil Activist Killed, Others Threatened

10/28/97--Amazon Rain Forest May Face Greatest Threat Ever

10/27/97--G7 to Meet in Amazon to Review Development Program

10/27/97--Ecotourists Gets a Bird's-eye View of Atlantic Rainforest

10/25/97--The Brazilian Pantanal, Ecological Sanctuary

10/25/97--Politics Slow Efforts to Preserve Brazil's Amazon Rain Forest

10/24/97--Law Proposal Threatens Atlantic Rainforest

10/23/97--Violence against Human Rights and Environmental Activists on the Rise

10/22/97--Environmental Leaders Threatened with Death

10/22/97--Brazilian "Justice" in Case of Indian Burned Alive

10/22/97--Brazilian Amazon: A Rain Forest Imperiled

10/19/97--Respiratory Illness Increases due to Forest Fires

10/17/97--Niobium Sale Postponed due to Environmental Fears

10/17/97--Update: Iguassu National Park

10/17/97--Respiratory Illness Increases due to Forest Fires

10/16/97--Pataxo Indians Prevent the Atlantic Forest from Disappearing

10/16/97--Pataxo Indians Prevent the Atlantic Forest from Disappearing

10/16/97--Chico Mendes Ten Years Later

10/15/97--Clinton and Cardoso Pledge Sustainable Development

10/13/97--Clinton's Free Trade Message Endangers Amazon

10/11/97--Government Will Report on Deforestation Nov. 30

10/9/97--Satellite Data on Amazon Destruction Tell Only Fraction, Fires Worse Than Feared

10/9/97--Amazon Burning Worst in Memory, Another Casualty

10/9/97--Cardoso Does Not Want to Demarcate Indigenous Areas

10/2/97--Widespread Burnings in Amazonian Area

10/1/97--Chamber of Deputies to Vote on Mining Bill

9/27/97--Burning In Amazon Surges, Says Environmental Defense Fund

9/9/97--United Nations Recognizes Pukanu Village Company for Job Well Done

9/4/97--Urban Spread Damages Environment South of Sao Paulo

9/4/97--Greenpeace Protests Congress's Plans to Purchase Endangered Timber

9/3/97--Bulldozing the Amazon

9/1/97--Amazonian Indigenous People Speak Out on Development issues

9/1/97--Urgent Action: WAIPI and CTI Under Attack

8/31/97--Amazon Indians Call for Greater Say in Development Decisions

8/28/97--President of Funai Denies that Decree 1,775/96 Will Be Reviewed

8/26/97--Indigenous Leaders Meet to Protest Rainforest Destruction

8/21/97--Fighting to Prevent Theft of Bio-Resources from the Amazon Basin

8/19/97--A Victory for Guarani community of Sucuriy!

8/18/97--Scientist Discovers Tiny, New Monkey Species in Rain Forest

8/17/97--Brazil Auctions Off Its Forests

8/14/97--Population Grew 7% between 1991 and 1996

8/12/97--Third World: Net Gains for Poor Farmers

8/10/97--Government Will Not Analyze Rainforest Deforestation

8/4/97--Porto Primavera Dam Causes Environmental Disaster

8/2/97--Logging Plan Designed to Reduce Illegal Cutting Criticized

7/31/97--Cimi and Coiab Launch Emergency Campaign to Ensure Peoples Health

7/31/97--Timber Seizures Soar as High-Tech Equipment is Introduced

7/30/97--Government Gives Go-Ahead for Amazon Monitoring System

7/27/97--Timber Harvest in Public Forests Privatized

7/21/97--Law May Expel Foreign Research Missions

7/16/97--Aggression Against Indians and the Environment in Mesa Mountain Range

7/10/97--750 Serious Land Conflicts During 1996

7/9/97--Land Pastoral Commission Denounces More Conflicts in Rural Area

7/7/97--Development Strategy: Close Information Gap

7/4/97--Brazilian State Takes on Genetic Piracy in Amazon

7/1/97--Megaproject Against Brazilian Indians Suspended

7/1/97--Malaysian Response to Accusations of Timber Company Misconduct in Amazon & Elsewhere

6/26/97--Large Seizure of Timber

6/25/97--Infrastructure Plans Threaten Amazon

6/24/97--Mahogany Coveted in Amazonian Indigenous Areas, Little CITES Protection

6/18/97--Brazil Plays Games While the Forest Burn

6/12/97--Amerindians Meet To Save Earth

6/12/97--Highway Threatens Brazilian Rainforest

6/10/97--Guardian of Brazil Indians Faces Many Foes

6/7/97--Pataxo Indians Under Risk of Massacre in Brazil

6/5/97--Disaster Threatens Savanna Areas

5/27/97--Rio+5 Breaks New Ground for Sustainable Development

5/23/97--Progress Threatens Brazil’s Vast Wetlands

5/23/97-Government Tries to Deny Negotiations Over Raposa Area

5/16/97--Ecuador Communities Occupy Junin Mine

5/12/97--Farmers Surround and Threaten Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae

5/6/97--Guarani Community of Sucuriy Fighting Eviction

4/30/97--Guarani Will Not Leave Alive

4/23/97--World Bank to Overhaul Amazon Project

4/20/97--Protestors Block Brazil Road Project

4/20/97--Indigenous People in Brazil Face Severe Human Rights Abuse

4/11/97--Brazil Plans Second Biggest Indian Reserve

4/11/97--Guarani Eviction Update

4/8/97--New Book Announced

3/27/97--Brazilan Peasants Ask World Bank for Water Back

3/26/97--Guarani Community of Sucuriy Threatened with Eviction

3/25/97--Indians Attend FUNAI's Workshop After Protesting

3/21/97--Update on National Council of Rubber Tappers Mobilization

3/21/97--Support the Nambikwara Indigenous People of Sarare' Reserve

3/20/97--Demand Justice and End of Impunity in South of Para

3/19/97--Declaration Affirming Right of Life & Livelihood for Those Affected by Dams

3/18/97--Plan to Reduce Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Area Sets Sinister Precedent

3/14/97--Consequences of Ministerial Decision on Raposa/Serra Do Sol Denounced

3/10/97--Asian Logging Companies Move into Heart of Amazon Rainforest

3/12/97--War is Declared Against Krikati Indians

3/3/97--Enticement of Indians into Exploiting Mahogany Denounced

2/27/97--Rubber Tappers Call for Mobilization in Brasilia

2/25/97--Malaysian Loggers in the Amazon

2/22/97--Ecologists Trying to Restore Brazil's Dwindled Atlantic Forests

2/14/97--Asian Timber Firms Threaten the Amazon

2/12/97--World Bank Pressures State of Rondonia

2/4/97--Brazil Indigenous Rights Set-Back

2/2/97--Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest--Book Review

2/1/97--Indigenous Rights in Brazil: Stagnation to Political Impasse

1/24/97--Guarani-Kaiowa Remain Expelled from the Sucuriy Area

1/21/97--International Agencies Request Review of Raposa/Serra do Sol Decision

1/17/97--One Year Since Cut Back on Demarcation of Indigenous Lands

1/10/97--Guarani-Kaiowa Indigenous Community Illegally Evicted from Land

1/7/97--Scientists Discuss Future of Brazil's Biodiversity

1/5/97--Asian Timber Firms Set Sights on the Amazon

1/2/97--Controversial New Regulations for Protected Atlantic Rainforests

1/1/97--Brazil Returns Amazon Rainforest Homeland to Panará

12/27/96--Popular Ecology: Brazilian Eco-Banker's Dream Comes True

12/26/96--Brazil's Indigenous Land Grab

12/20/96--Recovery of Rare Brazilian Monkey

12/16/96--Yanomami: Programmed Genocide

12/13/96--Environmental Groups Call for Stop to Mahogany Destruction

12/9/96--Brazil Launches Corridor Approach to Rainforest Protection

12/6/96--U.S. Vice-President Gore Targeted for Listing Mahogany on Cites

12/5/96--Victory for Macuxi People in Brazil Within Reach

12/4/96--Pulp Company Disregards Territorial Rights of Brazilian Indians

11/25/96--Brazil's Atlantic Forests: New World Record for Tree Diversity

11/14/96--Brazil's Military to Fight for Ecological Image

11/4/96--Brazil Recognizes Land Rights of Panara Indigenous Group

10/21/96--Xavante Indians Say No to Amazon Industrial Waterway Scheme

10/16/96--Brazil's Indians on Alert as Government Hears Final Land Rights Appeal

10/16/96--Genocide Against Brazilian Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples

10/14/96--Indians of Raposa/Serra Do Sol Conclude Self-Demarcation of Land

10/11/96--Brazil Aims to Control Biopiracy

10/9/96--Save Mahogany from Overharvesting

10/2/96--Help Halt Illegal Trade of Mahogany

10/1/96--Marketing Vines as an Economic Alternative to Forest Destruction

9/30/96--Brazil's Forests Burning

9/27/96--Shotgun the Newest Threat to Yanomami Indians

9/25/96--Last Stand for the Amazon

9/24/96--New Maneuver to Reduce Raposa/Serra Do Sol Indigenous Area

9/22/96--Brazil's Environment Chief Vows Tight Rein for Foreign Loggers

9/20/96--German Chancellor Call G-7 Amazon Actions "Pathetic"

9/17/96--Natural Resource Indigenous Reserves

9/16/96--Law Studied to Regulate Access to Biodiversity

9/13/96--Brazil Wins Loan for Controversial Amazon Highway

9/12/96--New Government Figures Show Amazon Rainforest Destruction Ongoing

9/12/96--Brazilian Rainforest to Get More Funds from EU and World Bank

9/6/96--Brazilian Land Decree Results in Indigenous Land Contestation

9/3/96--Asian Loggers Latest Threats to Brazil's Rainforest

8/27/96--Ava-Canoeiro Indians Threatened by Extinction Due to Power Station Lake

8/21/96--Brazilian Governments Push for Tocantins-Araguaia Industrial Waterway

8/7/96--More Scandal in the Extraction of Brazilian Mahogany

8/1/96--Brazil: Rainforest Under Siege, and Greenpeace's Campaign in Response

7/30/96--Brazil Bans Mahogany Logging in Amazon, Will U.S. Ban Mahogany Imports?

7/29/96--Extensive Background Paper on the Macuxi

7/26/96--Brazil Halts Forest Contracts

7/25/96--German Parliament Members Press for Brazilian Indigenous Land Demarcation

7/25/96--Brazil Justice Minister Delays Macuxi Land Demarcation

7/16/96--Indigenous People Do Not Accept Review of Their Lands

7/9/96--Tourism Project Threatens Pataxo Indians in Brazil

6/22/96--Tupinikim & Guarani Indian's Land Struggle

6/20/96--Brazil Reveals Another New Primate Species

5/31/96--Brazil's New Indigenous Land Decree Takes Its Toll

5/23/96--Victory for Guarani-Kaiowa Indians

5/16/96--Brazilian Guarani-Kaiowa Indigenous Community Given Eviction Notice

5/15/96--Brazil's Indigenous Land Grab Continues, Update on Decree #1775

4/29/96--Fight to Save Amazon's Animal Species

4/29/96--Pataxo Indians Protest Against Brazilian Government

4/22/96--Land Contestation Affects over 35% of Demarcated Lands

4/20/96--Amerindians' Resistance to Genocide Honoured

4/11/96--Indian Lands Threatened, Deforestation More Likely

3/26/96--Attorney General Argues Decree 1775 is Unconstitutional

3/14/96--Funai Changes President

3/11/96--Forum Against Unfilfilled Promises

3/10/96--Chili's Restaurant Ends Mahogany Use

3/7/96--RAN Stops Mahogany Ship in GA

3/5/96--Bishops Request Review of Decree 1,775/96

3/3/96--Kayapo Chief Sues Body Shop

3/1/96--Demarcation of Indigenous Land Threatened by New Decree in Brazil

2/24/96--Protection of Uru-eu-wau-wau Territory in Brazilian Amazon

2/16/96--Indigenous Peoples Group's Letter to World Bank

2/15/96--Update on Review of World Bank Inspection Panel

2/12/96--World Bank to Address Brazilian Rainforest & Indigenous Issues

2/9/96--No Dialogue by Brazilian Government Concerning Decree

2/6/96--Indigenous Peoples Denounce Brazilian Government

2/2/96--Brazil's Amazon Region has a Gold Rush

2/2/96--NGOs Protest Cardoso Move on Indian Lands

1/25/96--Brazil Reverses Indigenous Rights

1/96--Indigenous Peoples Groups Protest

1/96--Amazon Imperiled by New Mega-Projects

1/96--Panaflora Update

1/96--World Bank Rejects Probe of Brazil Amazon Project

1/96--World Bank Board Rejects NGO Appeal

1/96--World Bank Inspection Panel/Rondonia Claim

1/96--Sivam Scandal Strengthens Calha Norte Project

1/96--New Decree is Unconstitutional

1/96--Brazil Weakens Protection of Indian Lands

12/95--Decree 22/91 Is Being Judged

12/95--Amazonian Contractors Have Intelligence History

11/95--Efforts to Neutralize Reactions Against Decree 22/91

11/95--Indian Rights and Decree 22

11/95--Urgent Action Indian Rights Decree 22

11/95--Guarani Indian Self-Demarcate Their Land

11/95--Indigenous Rights are Disregarded

11/95--Government Agrees with Waimiri-Atroari Indians to Pave Road

11/95--Logers Raid Amazon for Mahogany

11/95--Brazilian Reserve Study Completed

11/95--Dams in Brazil's Remnant Atlantic Rainforests

10/95--Campaign Launched for Legalization of Macaxali Territory

10/95--Fire Destroy Forest in Sororo Indian Area of Para

10/95--People of Javari Valley Seek to Demarcate Land

10/95--Suicide Rate of Guarani-Kaiowa Highest in 10 Years

10/95--Deputies Discuss Suicides Among the Guarani-Kaiowa

10/95--Macuxi of Brazil's Landrights at Stake

10/95--Indian Women Hold National Meeting in Brasilia

9/95--Macedo Prisoner of Conscience

9/95--On a day so bright it seemed to hide not secrets

9/95--Brazilian Government Responds to Pressure--Will Discuss Decree

8/95--Opposition to Amendments to Decree 22/91

8/95--President Assumes Commitment with Indian Leaders

8/95--Bloodbath in the Amazon

7/95--Support Indian Autonomy

7/95--Forum Against Violence Takes a Stand Against Amendments

7/95--CIMI Holds Its 11th General Assembly

7/95--Rubber Tappers Calm Since Last Wave of Violence

7/95--Brazil Backslides on Land Demarcation

7/95--Infringing Indian Rights to Ensure Majority in Congress

6/95--Indian Groups Mobilizing Against Changes in Demarcation

6/95--Amazonians File Complaint Against World Bank

6/95--Unprecedented Challenge to World Bank Project in Rondonia

6/95--Brazil's Atlantic Coast Remnants Still Diminishing

6/95--Government Wants to Review All Demarcations of Indian Lands

6/95--Forest People Lodge Complaint Against World Bank

6/95--Brazilian Government Recognizes Slave Labor

6/95--Brazilian Indigenous Land Rights Under Assault

6/95--Brazil Cracks Down on Animal Smugglers

6/95--Stand Taken Against Changes in Demarcation Decree

6/95--Black Amazon Community Fights for Land Rights

5/95--Brazilian Government Threatens Indian Rights

5/95--Lawyer is Murdered for Supporting Demarcation

5/95--RAN/Assassins of Chico Mendes Still Loose

5/95--Mortality Grows Among Yanomami

4/95--Rancher Who Killed Union Leader Still Free

4/95--Mayor Sponsors Invasion

3/95--Greenpeace U.S. Launches Mahogany Boycott

3/95--Brazil: Environmentalists Launch Atlantic Forests Campaign

3/95--Brazil: Demarcation of Indian Lands Threatened

2/95--Politicians Threaten Endangered Atlantic Forests

2/95--Federal Admin. Says Will Demarcate Krikati Indian Area

2/95--Brazilian Government May Negotiate Indian Rights

1/95--Protest Police Action Against Macuxi Indians

1/95--New President of Brazil to Face Anti-Indian Interests

11/94--Rio Maria Bulletin/Trial Begins

11/94--Politicians Campaign Against Indian Rights

11/94--Mahogany's Misfortune

11/94--Mahogany Fails to Gain CITES protection

11/94--Mahogany & CITES Action Alert

11/94--Indians Suffer From Hunger In Brazil

11/94--Greenpeace/Brazilian Timber Trade Unregulated

11/94--Government Neglects to Demarcate Indian Lands

11/94--Environmentalists Call for Mahogany Protection

10/94--WWF Foresees Disaster in South American Waterway

10/94--Indigenous Territory Logged

10/94--Indianist Policy of the New President

10/94--Greenpeace Tours the Amazon

10/94--Greenpeace Ordered to Leave Brazil

10/94--Activists Seize Mahogany

10/94--Navy shadows MV Greenpeace

9/94--Kayapo Split over Benefits of Mining and Logging

9/94--Farmers Threaten Indians

9/94--Add Mahogany to CITES Appendix 2

8/94--Rio Maria Bulletin/Stalling on Inquest

8/94--New Violence Targets Rubber-tappers

8/94--New Violence Targets Brazils Rubber-tappers

8/94--Logging in the Amazon Estuary

8/94--Brazil Against Mahogany on Cites

8/94--26 Yanomami Died of Diseases

7/94--Brazilian Bill to End Guardianship of Indians

6/94--Woodcutters and the Kayapo Indians

6/94--NGOs Against Indians

6/94--Indians Threaten Suicide Over Land Loss

6/94--Cerrados Alert/Japan's Role

6/94--Amazon General Information Fact Sheet

5/94--Peoples Palm Resource Destroyed

5/94--Military and Indian Lands

5/94--Guarani Threatened with Expulsion

5/94--Government Allows Palm Forest Destruction

5/94--G-7 Brazilian Forest Plan May Collapse

5/94--Constitutional Review Threatens Indian Nations

5/94--A Conviction for a Murder in Rio Maria

4/94--Save the Cerrados

4/94--RAN/Gold Miners Threaten Yanomami

4/94--Mitsubishi in Brazil--Large Backgrounder

4/94--Invasion of Lands Causes Violence Against Indians

4/94--Drive for New Extractive Reserves

3/94--Indians in Roraima Block Roads to Stop Miners

3/94--Indians in Roraima Block Roads

3/94--Indian Lands Continue to Be Cut by Roads

3/94--Greenpeace Denounces Mahogany Disappearance

3/94--Candidate Lula and His Indianist Policy

2/94--Miners Invade Yanomami Land Again

12/93--Mitsubishi Poised to Exploit the Amazon

12/93--Mahogany shoplifting from London's Harrods

12/93--European/Amazon Watershed Roundtable

12/93--Amendments to Constitution Reduce Indian Rights

12/93--42 Indians Killed in Brazil

11/93--Another Bishop Under Death Threat for Defending Indians

11/93--16 Indians Committed Suicide

10/93--Timber Companies Speed Up Removal of Mahogany

10/93--Important Indigenous Rights Victory

10/93--Greenpeace Protests Against Predatory Consumption

10/93--Court Convicts Logger for Illegally Extracting Mahogany

9/93--Amazon Up in Smoke, Little Concern Shown by World

9/93--Amazon Burn Up 35 Percent

9/93--300 Indians Will Demand Demarcation

8/93--Yanomami Massacre

8/93--Massacre of Yanomami Indians in Roraima

8/93--Chronology of the Yanomami Genocide

8/93--Bill Obstructs Demarcation

4/93--WRM Book Review/Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

4/93--Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

4/93--One-Hundred Indian Organizations in Brazil

4/93--Demonstration in Support of Death-Threatened Bishop

4/93--Justice Recession in Brazil

3/93--Rio Maria Bulletin

3/93--Indians and Violence in 1992

3/93--Indians Block Railroad

3/93--Army Delays Demarcation of Lands

2/93--Assassin of Chico Mendes Escapes From Jail

1/93--Brazilian Atlantic Forests

12/92--Twenty Guarani Commit Suicide

12/92--Shootings in Maranhao

12/92--Gaviao Indian Murdered

12/92--Cerrados: Life in Extinction

11/92--Yanomami and Cholera

11/92--Indians Keep 100 as Hostages to End Invasion of Lands

11/92--Yanomami Area Invaded Again

11/92--Greenpeace Occupies Biggest Mahogany Exporter's Sawmill

11/92--Greenpeace Action in Amazon

11/92--Dams Threaten Indians in Brazil

11/92--Cholera Attacks Guajajara Indians

9/92--Brazil Chief Fram Paiakan Framed?

5/92--Brazil Opens Door to Environment Funding

3/92--Controversy Over Resignation of Environment Minister

11/91--Document from the Indians of Rondonia

10/91--The Internationalization of Amazon

10/91--Mercury Contamination in Amazon

10/91--Alternative Nobel Prize to Land Reform Struggle

8/91--Plague of Mosquitoes/Protesters Occupy Power Company

6/91--Attack on Pedro Ramos, Rubber Tapper

1/89--Fighting to Save Brazil's Rain Forest--Mendes the Martyr

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