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Stunning images of the Amazon rainforest from award-winning photographer 
The Independent
The Independent
Award winning photographer Daniel Beltrá has released new images of his trip to the Amazon Rainforest. The Spanish born photographer won a fully funded assignment to document the three major rainforest...
Amazon deforestation: Short-lived boost, big damage
The Times of India
The Times of India
Text: WASHINGTON: Clearing the Amazon rainforest for soy or cattle does not bring long-term social or economic benefit to local communities and threatens the...
Johann Hari: A fight for the Amazon that should inspire the world
The Independent
The Independent
While the world nervously watches the uprising in Iran, an even more important uprising has been passing unnoticed - yet its outcome will shape your fate, and mine. In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the poorest...
Peru Anguish, oil and the Amazon
New Statesman
New Statesman
Violence erupted in the Peruvian Amazonia earlier this month, when thousands of indigenous people, protesting against legislation that would open up the country's rainforest to logging, gas and oil contractors, were met...
Anguish, oil and the Amazon
New Statesman
New Statesman
Observations on Peru Violence erupted in the Peruvian Amazonia earlier this month, when thousands of indigenous people, protesting against legislation that would open up the country's rainforest to logging, gas and oil...
Amazon bill controversy in Brazil
BBC News
BBC News
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is due this week to make one of the most keenly awaited decisions about land ownership in the Amazon rainforest. The president has to decide by 25 June whether to veto parts...
Meat companies sued over deforestation of Amazon
Taipei Times
Taipei Times
Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian firms that supply Tesco,...
Supermarket suppliers 'helping destroy Amazon rainforest'
The Guardian
The Guardian
• Meat companies sued over Amazon deforestation • Accused firms supplying Tesco, Asda and M&S A three-year survey by Greenpeace shows that western demand for beef and leather and an increase in cattle ranching is...
Peru moves to ease Amazon crisis
BBC News
BBC News
Peru's government is set to send a bill to Congress revoking land laws that led to deadly clashes between police and indigenous protesters in the Amazon. The move follows talks between the government and indigenous...
Images of 'Amazon's Tiananmen'
The Independent
The Independent
First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands in surrender. He is knocked to the ground and given...
Images reveal full horror of 'Amazon's Tiananmen'
The Independent
The Independent
First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands in surrender. He is knocked to the ground and given...
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