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ipsnews.net - 1/29/2009
Brazil: "Wake Up, World!" - SOS from the Amazon
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Inter Press Service: A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message "SOS Amazon" to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum ...
Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation
news.mongabay.com - 1/31/2009
Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation
— news.mongabay.com — Nearly 80 percent of land deforested in the Amazon from 1996-2006 is now used for cattle pasture,... according to new maps released today in a report by Greenpeace at the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil. The report, Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato ... (more) Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation

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spiegel.de - 1/22/2009
A 'Green Tsunami' in Brazil: The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - ...
— spiegel.de — In the middle of the night, the plantations around Araçoiaba in Brazil's ethanol zone are on fire.... The area looks like a war zone during the sugarcane harvest, as the burning fields light up the sky and the wind carries clouds of smoke across the ... (more) A 'Green Tsunami' in Brazil: The High Price of Clean, ...

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ens-newswire.com - 1/30/2009
Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest
— ens-newswire.com — Quantcast Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest BELEM, Brazil , January 29, 2009 (ENS) - Indigenous... people from across Latin America led more than 1,000 World Social Forum participants to form a human banner Tuesday, using their bodies to ... (more) Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest

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Celsias Expert Articles —           As money dries up, more traditional means of exchange reassert themselves, whilst the pillage of the poor by the wealthy continues, for those with the means. Those without the means speak up where they can. Elsewhere, sanity and gibbering madness compete for attention with hubris and incompetence. Related Reading: Throbgoblins: Crunch Throbgoblins: Compost Mentis

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80% of Amazon Deforestation Stems from Cattle Ranching — Green Options
Greenpeace Brazil has released a report at the World Social Forum in Belém showing that up to 80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is due to an increase in raising cattle for human consumption. Brazil has quickly become the largest exporter of beef in the world, but they ...
Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation — brazil news from mongabay.com
Nearly 80 percent of land deforested in the Amazon from 1996-2006 is now used for cattle pasture, according to new maps released today in a report by Greenpeace at the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil. The report, Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato Grosso: State of Destruction , confirms that ...