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Brazil: Indigenous Group Granted Largest Tropical Forest ...  -  03 Nov 2006
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription),...joint assessment with the Instituto Biodinâmico de Botucatu, an organic certifier in Brazil. ... is to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend ...

Seattle school bus driver fired after obscene gesture at President ...  -  03 Nov 2006
North County Times,...a nearby work camp, said Syamsidar, a local World Wildlife Fund spokesman ... RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The flight recorder transcript from the executive jet ...

On the town  -  03 Nov 2006
Whittier Daily News,Los Angeles Zoo Association, was honored with the Wildlife WayStation's Humanitarian ... a very real hydroelectric dam at Itaipuon the border of Brazil and Paraguay ...

In the jungle, the mighty jungle...  -  Nov 1, 2006
Leeds Today,Francisco came too, machete in hand in case we encountered any threatening wildlife. ... has been destroyed and smoke from burning trees pushed Brazil into the top ...

Brazilian memories will last a lifetime  -  Nov 1, 2006
Sooke News Mirror,...southern hemisphere, tropical climate, large population, and wide diversity of plant and wildlife are just ... "I had a choice between Taiwan and Brazil and picked ...

Open Space  -  Nov 1, 2006
Alaska Magazine,...the area be set aside as a wildlife refuge. For all his travels, he says this place is unique. “I’m sure there are rain forests in Brazil where you can ...

Study: Some forest roads bad for wildlife  -  Oct 31, 2006
Science Daily (press release)...rainforests, but staggering numbers of gorillas, elephants and other wildlife, which are ... May Lead To Peril For Rainforest (January 22, 2001) -- Brazil may call ...

To Rio in a mobile hostel  -  Oct 31, 2006
Sunday Times.au,...kitchen. The Pantanal region is regarded as one of the best places to see Brazil's abundant wildlife outside the Amazon. After days ...

Running on Hype The Real Scoop on Biofuels  -  Nov 1, 2006
CounterPunch,But a recent World Wildlife Fund report for the International Energy Agency raises ... It turns out that 80% of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions come not from cars ...

Indians are key to rainforest conservation efforts says renowned ...  -  Oct 31, 2006
Mongabay.comLook to Brazil where 5 percent of the Amazon forest is protected in ... of Harvard University, Director of Plant Conservation at the World Wildlife Fund, Vice ...

Brazil Celebrates Energy Independence…  -  Oct 29, 2006
KXMA,Brazil’s oil independence had virtually nothing to do with its ethanol development ... exploit our domestic oil reserves in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge or ...

Anti-Smelter Camp May Be a Permanent Fixture  -  Oct 31, 2006
Inter Press Service (subscription),...to one of its plants in Brazil and running television advertisements showing plants in Australia and Brazil functioning in harmony with wildlife and lush ...

Snaring the wildlife criminals  -  Oct 18, 2006
Scotsman,In Brazil, organised poachers steal 38 million birds, reptiles and mammals every year from the rainforest and smuggle them abroad. ...

Brazil police investigate hit-and-run accident involving ...  -  Oct 20, 2006
International Herald Tribune,...a local farmer to declare the monkey's habitat a private wildlife reserve and ... Brazil's Atlantic rainforest, where the monkey lives, once lined much of the ...

Brazil Beef Industry Sees Export Bans Ending Soon  -  Oct 25, 2006
CattleNetwork.com,...control, even with vaccines, because cattle live in close proximity to wildlife that can ... I would think that even with foot-and-mouth disease, Brazil will still ...

Brazil To Call For Global Fund To Save Rainforests  -  Oct 20, 2006
Free Internet Press,Mauro Armelin, political coordinator of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Brazil, welcomed the idea of a fund but warned that the contradiction between agricultural ...

Bauxite mining threatens unique wildlife, warn Jamaican ...  -  Oct 23, 2006
Caribbean Net News,...km). If you were to overlay a map of our bauxite reserves on a map of other major producers, such as Australia, Brazil, and China, they cover a few pixel points ...

Home / News / Sambazon Finalist for State Dept. Excell...  -  Oct 31, 2006
The Beverage Network...gift of 680,000 acres of Patagonian wilderness to the Wildlife Conservation Society ... healthcare clinics for women and children; Sambazon in Brazil for promoting ...

German rivers repopulated with sturgeon  -  Oct 31, 2006
Science Daily (press release)Almost Good Enough To Eat: Food Taboos In Brazil (October 27, 2004) -- Some of the ... as a natural biological filter, they are a food for fish and wildlife, an ...

WWF: Humans Far Outstripping Planet's Resource-Replacement Rate  -  Oct 25, 2006
FOX News...in the Amazon rainforest near Sao Felix do Xingu in northern Brazil in an ... more natural resources than our planet can replenish, the World Wildlife Fund said ...

Global warming project predict 'wild ride'  -  Oct 20, 2006
Independent Online,Those changes will affect the US West, Australia and Brazil, even though El Nino ... fewer frost days will likely bring dramatic change in wildlife, especially bug ...

The Nature Conservancy and Xerox Launch Partnership  -  Oct 25, 2006
The Nature Conservancy,...the health and integrity of wildlife habitat, public opportunities for outdoor recreation, and natural resource-related jobs. • In Brazil and Indonesia, the ...

World Sunflashes  -  Oct 26, 2006
Ottawa Sun,RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A man accused of being Brazil's most prolific serial killer ... May 23, in a van in the Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge northwest ...

ENERGY-ARGENTINA: Efficiency Is the Wave of the Future  -  Oct 25, 2006
Inter Press Service (subscription),...of the FVSA report which was sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF ... Along with Argentina, the campaign is being carried out in Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Russia ...

Brazil Beef Gets Warning From EU Food Safety Official  -  Oct 11, 2006
CattleNetwork.com,Brazil will never be free of foot-and-mouth disease," said Alcides Torres, director of livestock market researcher Scot Consultoria. "There's too much wildlife ...

Man convicted for bootleg spiders  -  Oct 25, 2006
Orlando Sentinel,Tuesday for smuggling 35 exotic spiders into the United States from Brazil, the US ... Under federal law, all wildlife imported into the US must be declared. ...

Man gets 18 months probation for smuggling exotic spiders  -  Oct 25, 2006
KOLD-TV,...for an Arizona man charged with smuggling 35 exotic spiders into Miami from Brazil. ... Under federal law, all wildlife imported into the US must be declared. ...

Commentary: An American-made solution to our energy crisis  -  Oct 31, 2006
California Farm Bureau,We would accomplish this by opening a small portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration and investing the federal share of the lease and ...

Attractions In Brazil  -  Oct 17, 2006
Market-Day.net,...s biggest and most spectacular falls located where Paraguay, Argentia and Brazil meet. If you are more interested in seeing some exotic wildlife be sure to ...

Beleaguered bat deserves second look  -  Oct 29, 2006
Baltimore Sun,...farther, making them important to maintaining rain forests in places like Brazil. ... who runs his own Baltimore-based company called TS Wildlife Control, says ...

Book fair again to attract A-List authors  -  Oct 26, 2006
Miami Herald,At the Street Fair, the International Pavilions Village presenting Brazil featuring Salvador ... Barack Obama of Illinois, exotic wildlife author Sy Montgomery and ...

Other Views: Moscow Times, Arab News, The Scotsman  -  Oct 20, 2006
International Herald Tribune,In Brazil, poachers steal 38 million birds, reptiles and mammals every year ... This week, the National Wildlife Crime Unit was inaugurated in Edinburgh, providing ...

As development closes in, river's health at issue  -  Oct 20, 2006
Boston Globe,...project for the Colombian office of WWF, the international wildlife protection group ... of the mammals in the Orinoco and Amazon basins, excluding Brazil, which is ...

Foreigners Flock to Brazil for Plastic Surgery, reports BrazilMax. ...  -  Oct 12, 2006
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)Forum, the World Wildlife Fund and the World Bank. He is an accomplished public speaker and teacher and gives “understanding Brazil� presentations to ...

US: GE Trees/Timber Plantations Jeopardize Endangered Forests  -  Oct 9, 2006
Infoshop News...addition to activities in the US, ArborGen is very active in Brazil where they ... only could GE tree test plots have serious impacts on wildlife, songbirds, and ...

Sailing in place: The pleasures of single-country cruises  -  Oct 20, 2006
Seattle Times,...the geographically and culturally similar coast of British Columbia and Alaska, focusing on the little towns, glaciers and wildlife of the ... For Brazil buffs, a ...

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