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Dispatch from the Amazon: the queen of biomes needs care – and global cooperation

July 29, 2010

The day the group of journalists I was visiting Brazil with by an invitation of Apex, a trade and investment agency, arrived in Brasilia for a series of meetings with government officials, the news was good. The country had managed to reduce deforestation in the Amazon region by 47% between August 2009 and May 2010, [...]

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Follow us in Brazil!

July 19, 2010

Follow our blogger/editor, Antonio, on a six-day trip to Brazil for a firsthand look at the world´s greatest biodiversity, found in the Amazon rainforest, and to become familiar with local policies to reach national targets on deforestation and climate change. Follow him at http://vimeo.com/energyrefuge and also on EnergyRefuge’s Twitter. Join him as he provides you [...]

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Deforestation: a key environmental issue

November 14, 2009

The preservation of the world’s remaining forests is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Forests are also home to most of the world’s wildlife as well as some of the remaining indigenous populations. Besides, the felling of trees releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and wreaks havoc with weather [...]

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Vanishing forests, vanishing tribes

October 14, 2009

Our last post was about the need to protect the world’s forests as a natural and cost-effective way to capture carbon dioxide, to protect biodiversity and the remaining indigenous people who dwell in them. As if to reinforce the point, Earthfirst published a harrowing piece of news about a Brazilian Indian tribe called Akuntsu, who [...]

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