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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon farming technique may fight global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fifteen hundred years ago, tribes people from the central Amazon basin mixed their soil with charcoal derived from animal bone and tree bark. Today, at the site of this charcoal deposit, scientists have found some of the richest, most fertile soil in the world. Now this ancient, remarkably simple farming technique seems far ahead of the curve, holding promise as a carbon-negative strategy to rein in world hunger as well as greenhouse gases.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest peoples form alliance to demand payments for forest carbon credits]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rainforest peoples from 11 nations have formed a coalition to demand a greater say in future climate negotiations.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming solutions are harming indigenous people, says U.N.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Large-scale solutions intended to help mitigate global warming are harming the very indigenous people who are likely to bear the brunt of climate change, warned the United Nations University (UNU) at a conference in Darwin, Australia.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-redd_indigenous_people.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Skoll Foundation puts $1M toward indigenous groups, conservation in the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Skoll Foundation has awarded the Amazon Conservation Team, an innovative organization the promotes biocultural conservation among indigenous groups in the Amazon, $1,015,000 to map, manage, and protect 100 million acres of rainforest.  The award is one of 11 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship presented by the Skoll Foundation in 2008.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0311-act_skoll.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deforestation a greater threat to the Amazon than global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If past conditions are any indication of future conditions, the Amazon rainforest may survive considerable drying and warming caused by global warming, argue researchers in a paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-mayle_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient Amazon fires linked to human populations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Analysis of soil charcoal in South America confirms that from a historical perspective, fire is rare in the Amazon rainforest, but when it does occur, it appears linked to human activities. The research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, is based on dating of soil carbon, which provides a good indication of when fires occurred in Amazonia, according to lead author Mark Bush, head of the Department of Biology at Florida Institute of Technology.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Steel production drives deforestation in Brazil's Pantanal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A steel mill in Corumbá, in the heart of Brazil's Pantanal wetland, is fueling destruction of forests for charcoal and undermining the rights of Amazonian forest dwellers, reports the Inter Press Service.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0211-pantanal.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Controversial dam in the Amazon gets Brazilian go-ahead]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian government has awarded rights to build and operate a controversial R$10bn hydroelectric power plant on the Madeira river in the Amazon rainforest near the border with Bolivia, according to FT.com.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1211-brazil.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Conservation Team wins "Innovation in Conservation Award" for path-breaking work with Amazon tribes]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) was today awarded mongabay.com's inaugural "Innovation in Conservation Award" for its path-breaking efforts to enable indigenous Amazonians to maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions while protecting their rainforest home from illegal loggers and miners.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1211-conservation_award.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) -- a group using innovative approaches to preserving culture and improving health among Amazonian rainforest tribes -- has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Nature's Path, an organic cereal manufacturer.  The funds will allow ACT to address one of the most pressing social concerns for Amazon forest dwellers by expanding its educational and cultural "Shamans and Apprentice" program for indigenous children in the region.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1121-act.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uncontacted Amazon tribe spotted by plane in Peru]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A group of uncontacted indigenous tribesmen were spotted by plane in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon last month, according to Survival International.  The region is threatened by illegal mahogany loggers.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1021-tribe_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest tribe establishes massive sustainable-use reserve]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An indigenous group in Guyana has established one of the world's largest sustainable forest reserves, reports Conservation International.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1003-ci_guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Killers of renowned anthropologist sentenced in Brazil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The men charged with the 2005 killing of University of Vermont anthropology professor James Petersen in the Amazon rainforest were sentenced Tuesday to nearly 30 years in prison, close to the maximum under Brazilian law.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0712-petersen.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google helps protect Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Google is working with a indigenous tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest to protect their lands from illegal encroachment, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.  For the first time, Google has confirmed details of the project. Working in conjuction with the Amazon Conservation Team, Google Earth's technology is being used to monitor illegal mining and logging that threaten the lands of the Surui tribe in Brazil.  Google is working with satellite providers to significantly improve image resolution in some of the most remote parts of the Amazon basin.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0610-google.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon tribe blocks major Brazilian highway]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Indigenous Amazonians have blocked a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to protest a series of hydroelectric dams planned on the Xingu river, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries, according to Brazzil Mag and Survival International.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0608-xingu.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can cattle ranchers and soy farmers save the Amazon?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[John Cain Carter, a Texas rancher who moved to the heart of the Amazon 11 years ago and founded what is perhaps the most innovative organization working in the Amazon, Alianca da Terra, believes the only way to save the Amazon is through the market.  Carter says that by giving producers incentives to reduce their impact on the forest, the market can succeed where conservation efforts have failed.  What is most remarkable about Alianca's system is that it has the potential to be applied to any commodity anywhere in the world. That means palm oil in Borneo could be certified just as easily as sugar cane in Brazil or sheep in New Zealand.  By addressing the supply chain, tracing agricultural products back to the specific fields where they were produced, the system offers perhaps the best market-based solution to combating deforestation.  Combining these approaches with large-scale land conservation and scientific research offers what may be the best hope for saving the Amazon.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Unknown tribe found in the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An unknown Indian tribe has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest reports the Associated Press. The Metyktire tribe, with about 87 members, was found in late May around 1,200 northwest of Rio de Janeiro.  Brazil's Federal Indian Bureau (FUNAI) says the tribe is a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe and lives on the Kayapos, 12.1-million-acre Menkregnoti Indian reservation.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0604-indians.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Globalization could save the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon basin is home to the world's largest rainforest, an ecosystem that supports perhaps 30 percent of the world's terrestrial species, stores vast amounts of carbon, and exerts considerable influence on global weather patterns and climate. Few would dispute that it is one of the planet's most important landscapes. Despite its scale, the Amazon is also one of the fastest changing ecosystems, largely as a result of human activities, including deforestation, forest fires, and, increasingly, climate change. Few people understand these impacts better than Dr. Daniel Nepstad, one of the world's foremost experts on the Amazon rainforest. Now head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program in Belem, Brazil, Nepstad has spent more than 23 years in the Amazon, studying subjects ranging from forest fires and forest management policy to sustainable development. Nepstad says the Amazon is presently at a point unlike any he's ever seen, one where there are unparalleled risks and opportunities. While he's hopeful about some of the trends, he knows the Amazon faces difficult and immediate challenges.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient Amazonian technology could save the world]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Terra preta, the ancient charcoal-based soil used by ancient Amazonians to create permanently fertile agricultural lands in the rainforest, is getting serious consideration as a means to fight global warming and meet domestic energy demand, reports an article in Scientific American.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0517-terra_preta.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Indigenous populations used fire to clear large areas of tropical forest well before the arrival of Europeans reports a new study published in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.  The research has important implications for understanding the impact of present forest development on biodiversity and forest regeneration in the tropics.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0228-stri.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Indians use Google Earth, GPS to protect forest home]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Deep in the most remote jungles of South America, Amazon Indians are using Google Earth, Global Positioning System (GPS) mapping, and other technologies to protect their fast-dwindling home. Tribes in Suriname, Brazil, and Colombia are combining their traditional knowledge of the rainforest with Western technology to conserve forests and maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions, which include profound knowledge of the forest ecosystem and medicinal plants. Helping them is the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), a nonprofit organization working with indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, health, and culture in South American rainforests.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1114-google_earth-act.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indians are key to rainforest conservation efforts says renowned ethnobotanist]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical rainforests house hundreds of thousands of species of plants, many of which hold promise for their compounds which can be used to ward off pests and fight human disease.  No one understands the secrets of these plants better than indigenous shamans -medicine men and women - who have developed boundless knowledge of this library of flora for curing everything from foot rot to diabetes.  But like the forests themselves, the knowledge of these botanical wizards is fast-disappearing due to deforestation and profound cultural transformation among younger generations. The combined loss of this knowledge and these forests irreplaceably impoverishes the world of cultural and biological diversity. Dr. Mark Plotkin, President of the non-profit Amazon Conservation Team, is working to stop this fate by partnering with indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, health, and culture in South American rainforests.  Plotkin, a renowned ethnobotanist and accomplished author (Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, Medicine Quest) who was named one of Time Magazine's environmental "Hero for the Planet," has spent parts of the past 25 years living and working with shamans in Latin America.  Through his experiences, Plotkin has concluded that conservation and the well-being of indigenous people are intrinsically linked -- in forests inhabited by indigenous populations, you can't have one without the other.  Plotkin believes that existing conservation initiatives would be better-served by having more integration between indigenous populations and other forest preservation efforts.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1031-interview_plotkin.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Stonehenge suggests advanced ancient rainforest culture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The discovery of an ancient astrological observatory in Brazil lends support to the theory that the Amazon rainforest was once home to advanced cultures and large sedentary populations of people. Besides the well-known empires of the Inca and their predecessors, millions of people once lived in the forests and shaped the environment to suit their own needs. Archaeologists with the Amapa Institute of Scientific and Technological Research said they uncovered the ruin near Calcoene, 390 kilometers (240 miles) from Macapa, the capital of Amapa state, near Brazil's border with French Guiana.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0514-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pre-Columbian Amazon supported millions of people]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Controversial evidence uncovered over the past decade suggests that the Amazon rainforest was once home to large sedentary populations of people. Besides the well-known empires of the Inca and their predecessors, the Huari, millions of people once lived in the forests and shaped the environment to suit their own needs.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1017-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Air medics deliver healthcare in the remote Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[National Air Mail isn't a letter-carrying service -- it's an airborne medical unit making rounds in the most isolated parts of the jungle.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1013-wsj.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Second "uncontacted" tribe in Amazon rain forest threatened by loggers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Brazilian Indian tribe armed with bows and arrows and unseen for years has been spotted in a remote Amazon region where clashes with illegal loggers are threatening its existence.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0526-reuters.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How did rainforest shamans gain their boundless knowledge on medicinal plants?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For thousands of years, indigenous people have extensively used rainforest plants for their health needs -- the peoples of Southeast Asian forests used 6,500 species, while Northwest Amazonian forest dwellers used 1300 species for medicinal purposes.  Perhaps more staggering than their boundless knowledge of medicinal plants, is how shamans and medicinemen could have acquired such knowledge. There are over 100,000 plant species in tropical rainforests around the globe, how did indigenous peoples know what plants to use and combine especially when so many are either poisonous or have no effect when ingested. Many treatments combine a wide variety of completely unrelated innocuous plant ingredients to produce a dramatic effect.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0515-rhett_butler.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[American Forest Peoples]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The American rainforests were once home to some of the world&apos;s most developed civilizations of antiquity including those of the Incas (Andes), Mayas (Central America), and Aztecs (Central America). These peoples created vast metropolises and made great developments in agriculture and the sciences. However all this changed with the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0704.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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