Chief taps technology to preserve tribal land

October 2012

Brazil (Free Read)

‘Ruralistas’ prevail in Brazil’s Forest Code battle

Years of legislative combat over a rewrite of Brazil’s central forest-protection law have ended in victory for the country’s powerful farming and ranching lobby, which ......

Argentina

Jaguar killings spur Argentine conservation calls

For years, Argentine scientific and green-advocacy groups, alarmed by habitat destruction here, have called on the government to step up wildlife-conservation efforts. But with the ......

Tighter emissions standards, better information management, effective sanctions for violation of environmental norms and an early-action system for heading off environmental conflicts are part of ......

Brazil

Brazilian judge eases limits on Transocean

Brazil’s oil industry regulator, the National Oil Agency (ANP), has gained ground in its effort to ensure that legal fallout from Chevron’s 3,700-barrel offshore oil ......

Region

Trade deals with EU raising green concerns

Free-trade agreements that the European Union (EU) signed recently with eight Latin American countries are expected to stimulate economic growth, but green advocates warn they’ll ......

Around the Region

Uruguay, Argentina tussle over results of pulp-mill monitoring

Argentina and Uruguay last month traded accusations over environmental monitoring of a massive Uruguayan pulp mill that started up in 2007 on the banks of ......

Centerpiece

Chief taps technology to preserve tribal land

Almir Suruí, chief of Brazil’s indigenous Suruí tribe, is not shy about engaging with outsiders to ensure his people’s survival. Promoting his tribe’s efforts to ......

Q&A

ECLAC’s Samaniego discusses carbon-footprint labeling

A central aim of Joseluis Samaniego, director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and ......

Centerpiece

Chief taps technology to preserve tribal land

Brazil

Almir Suruí, chief of Brazil’s indigenous Suruí tribe, is not shy about engaging with outsiders to ensure his people’s survival. Promoting his tribe’s efforts to save its Amazon rainforest land, he has traveled to 31 countries, taken part in the 2010 Copenhagen climate summit and met on separate occasions with Britain’s Prince Charles and former U.S. President Bill Clinton. In December of 2010, Época, a news magazine here, named him one of the one hundred most important Brazilians together with soccer star Kaká, supermodel Gisele Bündchen and bestselling writer Paulo Coelho. Chief Almir’s latest project might be his most ambitious effort yet to bring outside resources to bear for the benefit of his people. For the past several years, he has been working to develop... [Log in to read more]

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October 2012

Brazil (Free Read)

‘Ruralistas’ prevail in Brazil’s Forest Code battle

Years of legislative combat over a rewrite of Brazil’s central forest-protection law have ended in victory for the country’s powerful farming and ranching lobby, which ......

Argentina

Jaguar killings spur Argentine conservation calls

For years, Argentine scientific and green-advocacy groups, alarmed by habitat destruction here, have called on the government to step up wildlife-conservation efforts. But with the ......

Peru

Peruvian proposals aim to head off conflict

Brazil

Brazilian judge eases limits on Transocean

Brazil’s oil industry regulator, the National Oil Agency (ANP), has gained ground in its effort to ensure that legal fallout from Chevron’s 3,700-barrel offshore oil ......

Region

Trade deals with EU raising green concerns

Free-trade agreements that the European Union (EU) signed recently with eight Latin American countries are expected to stimulate economic growth, but green advocates warn they’ll ......

Around the Region

Uruguay, Argentina tussle over results of pulp-mill monitoring

Argentina and Uruguay last month traded accusations over environmental monitoring of a massive Uruguayan pulp mill that started up in 2007 on the banks of ......

Centerpiece

Chief taps technology to preserve tribal land

Almir Suruí, chief of Brazil’s indigenous Suruí tribe, is not shy about engaging with outsiders to ensure his people’s survival. Promoting his tribe’s efforts to ......

Q&A

ECLAC’s Samaniego discusses carbon-footprint labeling

A central aim of Joseluis Samaniego, director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and ......