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globalvoicesonline.org - 6/7/2009
Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon?
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National land will be donated to Brazilians in a program called ‘Terra Legal' (Legal Land), a package of measures to boost the government-backed redistribution of land and to establish rules for those who have lived and cultivated national land without being its legal owners. The bill ...
amazonwatch.org - 6/6/2009
Send a Message to the President of Peru
— amazonwatch.org — June 5, 2009 URGENT ACTION ALERT Peru's Amazon Indigenous Peoples need you to TAKE ACTION now! Tell... the Peruvian Government: Immediately suspend violent repression of indigenous protests and the State of Emergency Repeal the Free Trade Laws that allow ... (more) Send a Message to the President of Peru

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Up to 100 dead in Amazon clashes: activist - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
abc.net.au - 6/8/2009
Up to 100 dead in Amazon clashes: activist - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
— abc.net.au — Peru's Indigenous hold press conference Many Peruvians - not just Indigenous - are upset by plans to... open land in Peru's Amazon region to oil, gas and mineral exploration (User submitted: Ben Powless) (more) Up to 100 dead in Amazon clashes: activist - ABC News ...

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news.mongabay.com - 6/8/2009
Brazil to sanction illegal colonization in 230,000 sq mi of Amazon rainforest
— news.mongabay.com — Brazil moved a step closer to passing a controversial law that would allow landowners who illegally deforested... land in the Amazon to get legal title to these holdings. Environmentalists say HB 458 — which now only needs the signature of ... (more) Brazil to sanction illegal colonization in 230,000 sq mi ...

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The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — ... Such a grant would be devastating for the Amazon rainforest - amounting to the legitimization of a huge land grab by agribusiness and illegal logging. ...

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