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• in Entertainment
  Explore Alternative Healing, Amazonia
  Discover the jungle’s sacred healing plants and meet the healers who administer them deep in the Amazon rainforest.
  by missbobetier / on Nov 4, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Amazon Rainforest Continues to Hold New Discoveries
  Uncontacted indigenous tribe found living in Brazilian Amazon rainforest
  by darrenlj / on Jun 23, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “rainforest”

 

• Could the Tasmanian tiger be hiding out in New Guinea?

  
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  Many people still believe the Tasmanian tiger ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ) survives in the wilds of Tasmania, even though the species was declared extinct over eighty years ago. Sightings and reports of the elusive carnivorous marsupial, which was the top predator on the island, pop-up almost as frequently as those of ...
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• Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

  
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  Human-caused changes to our biosphere—the global total of the worlds ecosystems—are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping points exceeded. We may survive, we ...
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• Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

  
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  Peru has delayed auctioning off 27 oil blocs in the Amazon in order to conduct legally-required consultations with indigenous groups in the region, reports the Guardian. Perupetro S.A., Perus state oil and gas company, has announced it will auction 9 blocs off the Pacific coast, but will hold auctioning off the ...
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• Google Earth Shows Rainforest Disappearing

  
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  Greener Ideal Landsat images and the Google Earth Engine have been able to show us how the Earth’s surface has been changing, reports TreeHugger. “Today, we’re making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time,” says ...
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• Amazon clearance for agriculture is ‘economic own goal’ for Brazil

  
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  Economic and agricultural gains could slip into reverse due to the loss of forests environmental services, study shows . . . → Read More: Amazon clearance for agriculture is ‘economic own goal’ for Brazil Related Posts: Brazil plans Amazon tree census to assess deforestation Amazon deforestation ...
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• No-win situation for agricultural expansion in the Amazon

  
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  The post No-win situation for agricultural expansion in the Amazon appeared first on Innovation Toronto. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Rain. Forest. Rainforest.

  
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  Rain. Forest. Rainforest.
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• Orangutans are victims of ‘sustainable’ palm oil as rainforest is razed – ‘All of the animals on the plantation are threatened. The company must therefore stop clearing the rainforest immediately.’

  
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  (Rainforest Rescue) – Perched atop the remains of the last tree, an orangutan looks helplessly on what was until recently the forest he was living in but is now only ruins. Armed with chainsaws and bulldozers, workers of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA), a palm oil company, have completely destroyed the rainforest for ...
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• Amazon ‘may lose 65% of land biomass by 2060′

  
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  by Alex Kirby, Climate News Network , May 10, 2013 Irreplaceable forest may be lost, for no gain, and the climate will feel the impact.  Image: Sascha Grabow www.saschagrabow.com Making more land in the Amazon available for farming and ranching means felling more trees to make space – and ...
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• Video: Timelapse satellite views of human destruction of the biosphere over three decades

  
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  By Jeffrey Kluger (TIME) – Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. Of all the cosmic bodies studied in the long history of astronomy and space travel, the one that got the least attention ...
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• Eye to Eye with Brian Moynihan

  
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  VIDEO: To watch more of what happened yesterday at the Bank of America shareholder meeting in Charlotte, watch the clip at the bottom of this blog post. As I stood eye-to-eye with Bank of America (BofA) CEO, Brian Moynihan, a large stop-watch projected onto the wall of the conference room started to count down. I ...
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• NBC Nightly News Airs Segment On Indigenous Peoples Fight In Ecuador

  
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  NBC Nightly News Ann Curry recently returned from Ecuador with  this account  of how impoverished indigenous groups in the Amazon rainforest are preparing to fight -- literally and metaphorically -- their governments efforts to explore for oil on their native, pristine lands. Meanwhile, some of these same groups ...
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• Not all what flies has feathers in the Masoala Rain Forest at Zurich Zoo, Switzerland

  
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  … and not all what flies at Zurich Zoo is in the Masoala Rain Forest. Pay a visit to this Swiss wonderful rain forest  if you pass by! And click each picture for a full view. All birds shot with a Nikkor 70-200 mm VR II: do you know their names ? Filed under: pictures of animals Tagged: artborghi bird ...
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• Wild Kratts: Rainforest Rescue – PBS KIDS Hit a Home Run!

  
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  Wild Kratts: Rainforest Rescue – PBS KIDS Hit a Home Run! Product Review: Wild Kratts Rainforest Rescue Full movie review by Rebecca (and her daughter) at Love2EncourageYou. I received a free copy of the movie from PBS to review. Wild Kratts Rainforest Rescue on dvd is a super packed educational ...
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• Indigenous occupation of Belo Monte dam site enters sixth day – Government refuses to negotiate, ejects journalists from site on World Press Freedom Day

  
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  By Lucy Jordan 7 May 2013 BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL (The Rio Times) – The federal government said Monday it would not negotiate with indigenous groups which on Tuesday entered their sixth day of occupying the controversial Belo Monte dam construction site. In the inflammatory statement, the Secretariat General of the ...
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• 17 poachers allegedly enter elephant stronghold in Congo, conservationists fear massacre

  
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  Local researchers and wildlife guards say 17 armed elephant poachers have gained access to Dzanga Bai, a large waterhole and clearing where up to 200 forest elephants visit daily in the Central African Republic (CAR)s Dzanga-Ndoki National Park. WWF, which works in the region but has recently evacuated due to rising ...
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• Gearing Up for Bank of America’s Shareholder Meeting

  
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  I’m in Charlotte this week to talk to Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting. For the past two years, RAN has been calling on the bank to get serious about addressing climate change.This is a bank that declares a “commitment to positive environmental change” proudly on its website and a bank that has ...
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• Featured video: camera trapping in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

  
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  A new video highlights the work of Badru Mugerwa as he sets and monitors 60 remote camera traps in one of the most rugged tropical forests on Earth: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Mugerwa is working with the TEAM Network, run by Conservation International, which monitors mammal and bird populations in 16 ...
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• “It Cannot Happen Here”? A closer look at the Exxon Valdez spill

  
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  What can anyone make of the categorical statement by Canada’s Natural Resource Minister that an Exxon Valdez-type spill cannot happen here ?For a start, recall that another politician-on-a-mission, the late Senator Ted Stevens, famously promised fishermen in Cordova, Alaska that “not one drop” of oil would be ...
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• Central America’s largest forest under siege by colonists – ‘Even we the Mayangna dont touch these forests, thats where the animals we hunt reproduce. If they destroy that, they will destroy our people.’

  
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  By Jeremy Hance 6 May 2013 (mongabay.com) – In the last four years, invading land speculators and peasants have destroyed 150,000 hectares (370,000 acres) of rainforest in Nicaraguas Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, according to the Mayangna and Miskito indigenous peoples who call this forest home. Although Nicaragua ...
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