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Arapaima: the freshwater giant
Sometimes referred to as the Amazon codfish the Arapaima (Piraracu in Portuguese) is in danger of ...
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Payment for good production practices benefits families in Acre State
State environmental certification programme for rural smallholders supported by WWF provides ...
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Inconclusive data show drop in Amazon deforestation. Conservation of the worlds greatest forest still causes concern
Figures obtained by the Brazilian governments Deter warning system show an estimated 45% drop. ...
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Bill to slash Amazon protection passes crucial vote
Amendments to Brazil's Forest Code that could sanction dramatic increases in deforestation passed ...
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Public Brazilian schools in the city of Campo Grande include organic meat in the menu
A demand for organic products was included by local government among the selection criteria to ...
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In order to grow, Brazilian agriculture has no need to expand its frontiers
Contrary to the argument used by the Ruralist Bloc in the attempt to change the Forest Law, study ...
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Forest Law: environmentalists demand that presidential candidates take a position
On Tuesday, June 15, thirteen (13) non-governmental organizations sent a joint, open letter to the ...
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What will Brazil take to the Convention on Biological Diversity?
During a public hearing at the House of Representatives, the Brazilian Minister of the Environment ...
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The Giant Anteater: a voracious devourer of ants
In order to eat up to 30 thousand ants and termites a day and survive, this mammal needs a variety ...
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Study reveals greatest impacts of deforestation in the highest regions of the Brazilian Upper Paraguay River basin
The diagnostic study undertaken by a group of NGOs active in the Pantanal that includes WWF-Brasil ...
