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Nancy Trautmann

Tropical Birds Return to Harvested Rainforest Areas in Brazil - 1 views

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Brazil Amazon International Birds

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  • Nancy Trautmann on 05 Jul 11
     
    "Bird species in rainforest fragments in Brazil that were isolated by deforestation disappeared then reappeared over a quarter-century, according to research results published today in the journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) ONE. Scientists thought many of the birds had gone extinct."
Courtney Wilson

Traveling Down The Amazon Road : NPR - 0 views

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Amazon Deforestation Development Brazil Peru

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  • Courtney Wilson on 06 Sep 10
     
    "A transcontinental highway under construction in Peru and Brazil is bringing the prospects of economic opportunity and environmental ruin to some of the most remote places on the planet. NPR correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and staff photographer John Poole traveled the Peruvian route to produce this series."
Nancy Trautmann

Incredible new photos of uncontacted tribe in the Amazon - 3 views

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Amazon Brazil deforestation Sustainability International

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  • Nancy Trautmann on 21 Feb 11
     
    New aerial photos show an uncontacted tribe on the border of Brazil and Peru in detail. According to a press release by Survival International, the photos "reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens", but a community that is also threatened by illegal loggers from Peru."
Nancy Trautmann

As Roads Spread in Rainforests, The Environmental Toll Grows by William Laurance: Yale ... - 0 views

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Amazon rainforest deforestation

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  • Nancy Trautmann on 19 Jan 12
     
    "From Brazil to Borneo, new roads are being built into tropical forests at a dizzying pace, putting previously intact wilderness at risk. If we hope to preserve rainforests, a leading researcher says, new strategies must be adopted to limit the number of roads and reduce their impacts. "
Nancy Trautmann

From Brazil: Doing Fieldwork by Satellite « Round Robin - 0 views

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Blogs satellite images Birds

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  • Nancy Trautmann on 18 Sep 10
     
    "ut the truth is that satellites are so last century-so much, in fact, that scientists have begun using them to document historical changes. The above picture, from NASA's 38-year-old Landsat program, shows the Lake Djoudj region of Senegal during a drought in 1979 and during a flood 20 years later. Even at this small scale it's clear how much information the pictures contain about how the land has changed."
Nancy Trautmann

Amazon rainforest communities added to Google Street View - 0 views

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  • Nancy Trautmann on 25 Aug 11
     
    "Google is adding addresses along sections of the Amazon River and Rio Negro in Brazil to its Street View service."
Courtney Wilson

Brazil Announces Plan To Create World's Largest Tropical Forest Reserve - Environmental... - 0 views

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  • The announcement today of the creation of the Terra do Meio (Land in the Middle) reserve, which will cover about 9.8 million acres, in the National Park and Ecological Station, will be compleme
  • The announcement today of the creation of the Terra do Meio (Land in the Middle) reserve, which will cover about 9.8 million acres, in the National Park and Ecological Station, will be complemented next week by the protection of an additional 7.4 million acres of sustainable development reserves, largely for traditional forest communities.  The protection plan signals the government's intention to exert control over one of the most lawless and violent regions in the Amazon frontier.
  • Creating the proposed mosaic of reserves in the Terra do Meio will do more than just protect an area about the size of Maine, which is currently suffering heavy invasion from land grabbers.  The reserves will also link two existing groups of indigenous territories, resulting in the creation of the largest continuous corridor - nearly 62 million acres, about the size of the United Kingdom - of protected tropical forest in the world.
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  • The proposal for creation of the reserve mosaic was originally formulated by the grassroots Movement for the Development of the Transamazon and the Xingu (MTDX), a coalition of small farmers along the Transamazon highway. 
  • The farmers also fear that more deforestation, as soy farming and cattle ranching expand, will reduce rainfall and cut crop yields
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