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Brazil - Brazzil Mag - Brazilian Amazon Communities Make Money Saving the Rainforest - 0 views

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  • is re-establishing ecological balance in the forest by means of organic farming and sales of non-wood forestry products.
  • "We have been exporting sugarcane molasses to Austria since 2006, and brown sugar since last year. This year, we should start selling brown sugar to Italy,
  • the first international contacts were made when the cooperative participated in the trade fair BioFach Latin America, held in 2004 in Rio de Janeiro (Southeast Brazi
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  • "The fair gave us a notion of the size of the global organic market, and provided a basis for comparing packing and product quality.
  • Species such as the Brazil nut, guarana and buriti are native of the Amazon Portal
  • In addition to products to be supplied to large urban centers, BioAgrepa manufactures organic foodstuffs for the rural communities themselves. Dairy products, chicken, cassava, vegetables, sweets, and fruit are supplied to small supermarkets and for school meals, benefiting 25,000 students in the public teaching system and nurseries in nine municipalities in the north of the state of Mato Grosso, in the Midwest.
  • And tens of thousands more are making very little money,when paid, to make charcoal and work as slaves !!!!!!!! Showing a little piece of the reality...IS NOT THE REALITY !!!! Showing the tip of the iceberg is what brazilians are good at. Hiding the 90 % of the iceberg is where brazilians medias, politicians are working hard for but....VERY BAD AT.
  • yoki kim on 14 Oct 09
     
    Interesting
rodrigo gonzalez

Help the Amazon rainforest - 0 views

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  • rodrigo gonzalez on 21 Oct 09
     
    "Help the Amazon Rainforest There are several ways to help Amazon rainforest; the first is spreading the word to people that you know. The second is to protect an acre of the rainforest. For a small donation you can protect an acre of the rainforest. Simply click the link below. "
  • yoki kim on 21 Oct 09
     
    I agree!
brandon hall

Brazil Wants $21 Billion to Protect the Amazon Rainforest with No Strings Attached : Ec... - 0 views

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21 billion dollars to protect amazon rainforest

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  • It is hoped that the fund will raise up to 21 billion dollars over the next 13 years from nations around the world. Norway has already chipped in, pledging 100 million dollars to kick things off. Brazil has made it clear though that donations are only being accepted with a condition of no strings being attached. In other words, countries that donate money will have no say over how the money is used.
rodrigo gonzalez

Unique places of interest in the amazon rainforest - 0 views

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  • rodrigo gonzalez on 21 Oct 09
     
    "Amazon Rainforest Unique places of interest There are several places to go in the Amazon rainforest; it would probably be difficult to know all of them. A good start is visiting the Brazilian national parks in the region, most of them don't have much infrastructure for tourists but this is quickly being developed and you should find very good conditions by the end of 2005."
brandon hall

Brazil - Protecting the Amazon Rain Forest - ARPA Project - 0 views

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  • The vision of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Project (ARPA) is to create a mosaic of protected areas around productive landscapes to maintain the ecological integrity of the region over the long term. The project aims to add  28 million hectares in new protected areas (PAs) in the Brazilian Amazon over the next 10 years, while helping to consolidate the existing protected areas system. This will result in a total of 50 million hectares of Amazon forested ecosystems under protection and sustainable use, an area the size of Spain.
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Effects of Deforestation, Deforestation Effects - 0 views

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  • Forests contain many valuable natural resources and the land they cover is also valuable to an ever-increasing human population.
  • Millions of species have been wiped out never to be seen again in fact most were never seen by human eyes before being driven to extinction.
  • eduardo lemus on 14 Oct 09
     
    Eduardo Lemus
brandon hall

Stop the Brazilian Congress's Assault on the Amazon Rainforest | Care2 Share - 0 views

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  • The Brazilian Congress, influenced by the agribusiness sector, seeks to change the Forest Code in Brazil to open more of the Amazon rainforest to be cleared. Not only will this destroy forested areas in the Amazon no longer protected by the Forest Code, but the clearing and burning of these lands will release millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere—making the impacts of climate change much worse.
brandon hall

2.Manaus and Amazon Rainforest, Brazil - 0 views

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  • Manaus, Brazil, emerged as an important port city in the nineteenth century during the rubber boom. Today, with more than 1.7 million inhabitants, it is the largest city in the Amazon Basin. It is located on the banks of the Rio Negro (darker, to the left) at that river's confluence with the Amazon River (lighter, to the right). Although it is 1450 kilometers upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, Manaus remains an important port city for oceangoing vessels. It currently exports rubber, Brazil nuts, lumber, and various fruits. Recent discoveries of oil and manganese (used in steel production) may further invigorate its economy. Surrounding this city for hundreds of kilometers in all directions is dense rainforest. Because there are no bridges spanning the rivers in the vicinity of Manaus, ships are used to transport goods across these rivers.
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Amazon Rainforest - 0 views

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  • he Amazon rainforest was short-listed in 2008 as a candidate to one of the New7Wonders of Nature
    • Clarissa Garcia
      Clarissa Garcia on 21 Oct 09
       
      this is about deforestation!!
  • yoki kim on 14 Oct 09
     
    Young Ik Kim
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  • Andrea Goodall on 14 Oct 09
     
    February 2009 the Amazon was ranking first in Group E, the category for forests, national parks and nature reserves...
  • rodrigo gonzalez on 14 Oct 09
     
    The Amazon rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonia), also known as Amazonia, or the Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with minor amounts in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
  • yoki kim on 21 Oct 09
     
    Wow!!
eduardo lemus

Deforestation in the Amazon - 2 views

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    • Denisse Rivera
      Denisse Rivera on 14 Oct 09
       
      VERY IMPORTANT!!!
    • jaime batlle
      jaime batlle on 21 Oct 09
       
      yes
  • Between May 2000 and August 2006, Brazil lost nearly 150,000 square kilometers of forest—an area larger than Greece—and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed. Why is Brazil losing so much forest? What can be done to slow deforestation?
  • n many tropical countries, the majority of deforestation results from the actions of poor subsistence cultivators. However, in Brazil only about one-third of recent deforestation can be linked to "shifted" cultivators
    • eduardo lemus
      eduardo lemus on 21 Oct 09
       
      Very good site for deforestation
jaime batlle

AMAZON RAINFOREST FACTS - 0 views

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  • 70% of plants found to have anticancer properites are found only in the rainforest
    • jaime batlle
      jaime batlle on 14 Oct 09
       
      the cure for cancer is here!!!
    • yoki kim
      yoki kim on 21 Oct 09
       
      really??? Interesting.
  • More than 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced in this area, thus the name "Lungs of the Planet"
  • represents 54% of the total rainforests left on Earth.
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