<![CDATA[south america news from mongabay.com]]> http://www.mongabay.com en-us Copyright 2006 mongabay.com Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Brazil to use body-heat sensing technology to find uncontacted Amazon tribes]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1119-brazil.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1119-brazil.html <![CDATA[Last uncontacted tribe in Paraguay rapidly losing homeland]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1119-paraguay.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1119-paraguay.html <![CDATA[Illegal drug use destroys rainforests]]> The Guardian.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1118-cocaine.html Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1118-cocaine.html <![CDATA[Brazil OKs $4 billion dam in the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1113-madeira.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1113-madeira.html <![CDATA[Brazilian rancher claims he owns land American nun was killed defending in the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1112-brazil.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1112-brazil.html <![CDATA[Brazil triples endangered species list]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1105-brazil.html Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1105-brazil.html <![CDATA[Rainforest fungus generates biodiesel, may drive energy of the future]]> Gliocladium roseum, could become an incredibly efficient green energy source. ]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1104-hance_biodiesel.html Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1104-hance_biodiesel.html <![CDATA[Brazil charges 81 with illegal Amazon deforestation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1102-brazil.html Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1102-brazil.html <![CDATA[Mystery cat discovered in Ecuador is likely a pampas cat according to expert]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1028-hance_cat.html Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1028-hance_cat.html <![CDATA[Wal-mart mulling contribution to Brazil's Amazon rainforest fund]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1026-brazil.html Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1026-brazil.html <![CDATA[7 new species of frog discovered in Ecuador]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1023-frogs.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1023-frogs.html <![CDATA[Rainforest biodiversity results from habitat specialization rather than chance]]> Science.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1023-biodiversity.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1023-biodiversity.html <![CDATA[Peru gets $25M in debt relief to fund rainforest conservation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1022-peru.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1022-peru.html <![CDATA[Peru's uncontacted Amazon tribes under attack]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1022-peru_indigenous.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1022-peru_indigenous.html <![CDATA[Colombian community leader assassinated by agroindustry-backed vigilantes]]> Center for International Policy's Colombia Program and the World Rainforest Movement.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1016-colombia.html Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1016-colombia.html <![CDATA[Breakthrough may enable reforestation using mahogany]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1016-mahogany.html Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1016-mahogany.html <![CDATA[UK government: rainforests are weapon against global warming]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1014-eliasch_review.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1014-eliasch_review.html <![CDATA[Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1015-brazil.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1015-brazil.html <![CDATA[Exelon signs rainforest conservation deal to help reduce emissions]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1013-exelon.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1013-exelon.html <![CDATA[Paraguay extends zero deforestation law]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1010-paraguay.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1010-paraguay.html <![CDATA[Argentina bans fishing, trawling in eco-rich area]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1008-argentina.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1008-argentina.html <![CDATA[Ecuador's plan to protect rainforest from oil drilling looks doomed]]> Guardian Unlimited.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1009-ecuador.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1009-ecuador.html <![CDATA[Ecuador's Choco under siege, but hope remains]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1009-interview_karubian.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1009-interview_karubian.html <![CDATA[Slowing global economy will reduce Amazon deforestation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1008-brazil.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1008-brazil.html <![CDATA[Anti-NGO rhetoric in Brazil a response to environmental criticism says environment minister]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1008-amazon.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1008-amazon.html <![CDATA[Chevron loses attempt to reduce payment in suit by Amazon rainforest natives]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1008-chevron.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1008-chevron.html <![CDATA[Forest corridors key to maintaining biodiversity in fragmented landscape]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1007-michalski_interview.html Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1007-michalski_interview.html <![CDATA[Good news for amphibians: three new species and one "extinct" frog discovered]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1001-hance_frogs.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1001-hance_frogs.html <![CDATA[Brazilian government is biggest destroyer of the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0930-brazil.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0930-brazil.html <![CDATA['Snow leopard' of the Andes is one of the world's most endangered cats]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0928-wcn_interview_mauro.html Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0928-wcn_interview_mauro.html <![CDATA[Brazil suspends Amazon road project until protected areas established]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0926-amazon.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0926-amazon.html <![CDATA[Brazil plans to cut Amazon deforestation to zero by 2015]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0926-brazil.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0926-brazil.html <![CDATA["Punk-rock" monkey and handbags made from recycled trash inspire conservation in Colombia]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0925-wcn_guillen_tamarin_interview.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0925-wcn_guillen_tamarin_interview.html <![CDATA[Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0917-brazil.html Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0917-brazil.html <![CDATA[Group takes "venture capital" approach to conservation]]> Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN), an organization based in Los Altos, California, works to protect threatened species by focusing on what it terms "conservation entrepreneurs" -- people who are passionate about saving wildlife and have creative ideas for dong so. After a rigorous review process to identify and select projects that will have the greatest impact on conservation in developing countries, WCN provides the conservationist with fund-raising and back-office support, technology, and access to its network of people and resources.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0916-wcn.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0916-wcn.html <![CDATA[Regrowing the Amazon rainforest will require help from bats and birds]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-bentos_tcs.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-bentos_tcs.html <![CDATA[Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016]]> Environmental Conservation. Analyzing high resolution satellite data from 1984 through 2004 for the Alta Floresta region in northern Mato Grosso, Fernanda Michalski, Carlos Peres and Iain Lake of the University of East Anglia found that forest cover declined from from 91.1 percent to 41.7 percent between 1984 and 2004. They note that while the deforestation rate has slowed to around 2 percent per year since peaking at more than 8 percent annually in late 1980s to mid-1990s, renewed expansion of road networks will enable loggers to increasingly exploit remaining forests, leading to degradation and likely eventual conversion for agricultural use. Overall Michalski and colleagues forecast that forest cover in Alta Floresta will fall to 21 percent by 2016, a decline of 77 percent since 1984.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0903-amazon_deforestation.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0903-amazon_deforestation.html <![CDATA[Indian protesters win land rights battle against Peru's President Garcia]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0831-peru.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0831-peru.html <![CDATA[Amazon deforestation jumps 69% in 2008]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0831-brazil.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0831-brazil.html <![CDATA[Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable 'urban' society]]> Science. Conducting archeological excavations and aerial imagery across a number of sites in the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon, a team of researchers led by Michael Heckenberger found evidence of a grid-like pattern of 150-acre towns and smaller villages, connected by complex road networks and arranged around large plazas where public rituals would take place. The authors argue that the discoveries indicate parts of the Amazon supported "urban" societies based around agriculture, forest management, and fish farming.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-heckenberger.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-heckenberger.html <![CDATA[Malaysia targets Africa and the Amazon for oil palm expansion]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-malaysia_palm_oil.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-malaysia_palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0821-brazil.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0821-brazil.html <![CDATA[Brazil may allow mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0821-mining.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0821-mining.html <![CDATA[In Peru, a showdown between the president and tribes over mining and drilling in the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0821-peru.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0821-peru.html <![CDATA[Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands]]> Folha de S. Paulo.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0820-brazil_palm_oil.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0820-brazil_palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0818-mitchell_interview_gcp.html Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0818-mitchell_interview_gcp.html <![CDATA[Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon won't increase significantly for 2008]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0815-brazil.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0815-brazil.html <![CDATA[High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction]]> New Scientist.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-mining.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-mining.html <![CDATA[Oil development could destroy the most biodiverse part of the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0812-oil_amazon.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0812-oil_amazon.html <![CDATA[20% of the Brazilian Amazon's tree species to go extinct]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-hance_amazon.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-hance_amazon.html