The center will conduct river trips, jungle tours, wildlife watching and will show the management of natural resources that made residents of the communities located within the reserve and its buffer zone
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David & Goliath: Locals resist multinational dams, mines—sometimes win
Across Peru, the central government and multinational corporations have come up against fierce resistance from local, typically rural, communities opposed to large dam and mining projects.
Book on illegal mining in five countries of the Amazon: Routes of Illegal Gold
Publication presents research conducted in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru about illegal mining, gold trading and the destiny of this metal whose extraction is causing serious damage to the forests of the Amazon.
Future oil exploration in the vicinity of 15 indigenous lands in the Brazilian state of Amazon
The National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels launched without prior consultation with the National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI), a new pre-edict bidding for exploration and production of oil and gas in seven blocks.
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Interpretation Center in Pacaya Samiria Reserva, in Peru, was inaugurated
The center will conduct river trips, jungle tours, wildlife watching and will show the management of natural resources that made residents of the communities located within the reserve and its buffer zone
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David & Goliath: Locals resist multinational dams, mines—sometimes win
Across Peru, the central government and multinational corporations have come up against fierce resistance from local, typically rural, communities opposed to large dam and mining projects.
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Book on illegal mining in five countries of the Amazon: Routes of Illegal Gold
Publication presents research conducted in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru about illegal mining, gold trading and the destiny of this metal whose extraction is causing serious damage to the forests of the Amazon.
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Future oil exploration in the vicinity of 15 indigenous lands in the Brazilian state of Amazon
The National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels launched without prior consultation with the National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI), a new pre-edict bidding for exploration and production of oil and gas in seven blocks.
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Arapaima handled in the Brazilian Amazon guaranteed the minimum price
The proposal, subject to authorization of the National Monetary Council, will benefit fishermen of protected areas in the Brazilian tropical jungle.
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Bolivia: Activists warn of environmental and social consequences of dam in El Bala
The social impact would be relevant because Tacana, esse ejas and tsimanes indigenous communities would be affected by the project as they would be expelled from their land and forced to migrate because of the flood that will be generated.
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Arc of deforestation in Brazil will be monitored on period of rain
Ministries of Defense and of the Environment signed an agreement to purchase orbital radar images, able to have clarity even in cloudy weather.
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NGO will present research on illegal gold mining in the Amazon
Mining areas and routes of illegal gold commercialization in border areas of five countries of the Amazon Basin (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil) are unveiled and discussed in “The routes of illegal gold. Case studies in five Amazonian countries”
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Amazon Headwaters Under Siege: 19 dams slated for Napo watershed
Fed by snow from the glaciated volcanic peaks of the Andes Mountains, and by rainwater falling on steamy lowland Ecuadorian rainforests, this vast stretch of Amazonia supports diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, with significant unstudied flora and fauna.