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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Brazil</title>
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		<title>Brazil: When the destroyers begin to realize they must undestroy</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/brazil-when-the-destroyers-begin-to-realize-they-must-undestroy/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/brazil-when-the-destroyers-begin-to-realize-they-must-undestroy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restoration]]></category>

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&#8220;Nobody wants to have problems with the environment. And we have a cast of farmers who want to solve their problems and sleep soundly at night,&#8221; Bertinatto Copetti says.

Darci Eichelt cleared and plowed as much land as he could when he first arrived in Lucas do Rio Verde in central Mato Grosso state more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Cows are the ultimate killer of both the land and its traditional peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-cows-are-the-ultimate-killer-of-both-the-land-and-its-traditional-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-cows-are-the-ultimate-killer-of-both-the-land-and-its-traditional-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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Cattle ranching is the biggest cause of deforestation, not only in  the Amazon, but worldwide. The report reveals that the Brazilian  government is a silent partner in these crimes by providing loans to  and holding shares in the three biggest players – Bertin, JBS and  Marfrig – that are driving expansion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Legislation of Genocide legitimizes stolen land!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-legislation-of-genocide-a-legitimization-of-stolen-land/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-legislation-of-genocide-a-legitimization-of-stolen-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>

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		<title>Brazil: Economic development rainforest creates opposite affect</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-economic-development-in-the-rainforest-creates-the-opposite-affect/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-economic-development-in-the-rainforest-creates-the-opposite-affect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology of deforestation]]></category>

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The argument for deforestation has always been that the economic  benefits to local communities are too great to overlook. But now a new  study in the current issue of Science suggests that&#8217;s not true.  A team of researchers from Portugal, France and Britain studied nearly  300 Brazilian municipalities on the frontier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: New Greenpeace report: Slaughtering the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/02/brazil-new-greenpeace-report-slaughtering-the-amazon-2/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/02/brazil-new-greenpeace-report-slaughtering-the-amazon-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slaughtering the Amazon,  charges that major international companies are unwittingly driving the  deforestation of the Amazon rainforest through their purchases of  leather, beef and other products supplied from the Brazil cattle  industry. Greenpeace found that Brazilian beef companies are important  suppliers of raw materials used by leading global brands, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: New Greenpeace report: Slaughtering the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/02/brazil-new-greenpeace-report-slaughtering-the-amazon/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/02/brazil-new-greenpeace-report-slaughtering-the-amazon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slaughtering the Amazon,  charges that major international companies are unwittingly driving the  deforestation of the Amazon rainforest through their purchases of  leather, beef and other products supplied from the Brazil cattle  industry. Greenpeace found that Brazilian beef companies are important  suppliers of raw materials used by leading global brands, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: First complaints of corruption eliminates Minister Silva, is 	Minc next?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/01/brazil-first-complaints-of-corruption-eliminates-minister-silva-is-minc-next/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/01/brazil-first-complaints-of-corruption-eliminates-minister-silva-is-minc-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday last week, Minc told reporters that government ministers &#34;are going behind his back to Congress, &#39;each with their little hatchets, pushing amendments that tear to pieces and disfigure environmental legislation,&#39;&#34; according to the AP. &#34;I explained to President Lula that the (environment) ministry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Support for Genocide, Ecocide &amp; Imperialism: Words of 	Brazilian leader Silva</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/28/brazil-support-for-genocide-ecocide-imperialism-words-of-brazilian-leader-silva/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/28/brazil-support-for-genocide-ecocide-imperialism-words-of-brazilian-leader-silva/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinese colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goverment does nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil has policies aimed at conserving the Amazon forest and its priceless natural heritage. But the forest is also home to a culturally diverse population of 25 million, including some 170 indigenous peoples, along with hundreds of communities of rubber tappers, hunters and gatherers, and riverbank dwellers. Preservationist approaches alone are ineffective in tackling deforestation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: Global warming reinvigorates movement to end all commercial 	logging on federal lands</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/21/usa-global-warming-reinvigorates-movement-to-end-all-commercial-logging-on-federal-lands/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/21/usa-global-warming-reinvigorates-movement-to-end-all-commercial-logging-on-federal-lands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credible science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zero-cut]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Growing public concern about global warming has reinvigorated the
decades-old movement to end all commercial logging on federal lands
and has spurred new support for the “zero cut” concept. Head off the
Threat Political Action Committee, or http://Hottpac.org  a new national PAC dedicated to electing politicians pledged to reversing climate change,  has incorporated the idea into its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Supreme Court sides with Indigenous peoples in Raposa Serra 	do Sol land dispute</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/brazil-supreme-court-sides-with-indigenous-peoples-in-raposa-serra-do-sol-land-dispute/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/brazil-supreme-court-sides-with-indigenous-peoples-in-raposa-serra-do-sol-land-dispute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Court halts logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solutions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil&#8217;s Supreme Court sided Thursday with Amazonian Indians in a land dispute that some have called critical for determining the future of the rainforest that sprawls the size of Western Europe. The court ruling upholds the Raposa Serra do Sol reservation for 18,000 Indians who lay claim to their ancestral land, despite a handful of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Prince Charles in Rio makes a speech for trees</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/brazil-prince-charles-in-rio-makes-speech-for-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/brazil-prince-charles-in-rio-makes-speech-for-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fake sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gov does good]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[save the rainforest diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top forest defenders]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
When I visited Sao Paolo back in 1991, I said in a speech to business leaders that: “Environmental awareness seems to be a plant which flourishes at times of economic well-being. As soon as recession appears, or other dramas capture the public attention, caring for the long-term viability of the world around us becomes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: World Wildlife report on what must be done for the survival 	of the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/brazil-world-wildlife-report-on-what-must-be-done-for-the-survival-of-the-amazon/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/brazil-world-wildlife-report-on-what-must-be-done-for-the-survival-of-the-amazon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credible science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new study published]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With continuing conversion of the Amazon, mankind is involved in a
gigantic experiment, with the largest life support system on Earth at
stake. The outcome of this experiment is largely unknown. Little is
known about the exact synergies and feedbacks among these processes.

It is obvious, however, that the value of the multiple ecosystem
services provided by Amazon forests will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Forest land cover drives cloud cover which is being lost due 	to deforestation</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/brazil-forest-land-cover-drives-cloud-cover-which-is-being-lost-due-to-deforestation/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/brazil-forest-land-cover-drives-cloud-cover-which-is-being-lost-due-to-deforestation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desertification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology of deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trees & Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shallow clouds tend to form over deforested areas of the Amazon while
deep clouds are more prevalent above the remaining forest. Now
researchers from the US and Brazil have studied the mechanism behind
this phenomenon and found that the mix of forested and deforested
patches in damaged areas causes local atmospheric circulations that
affect cloud distribution.
Get full text; support writer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Forest Defending Catholic Rural Radio by Father Edilberto 	Sena in Santarem</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/03/brazil-forest-defending-catholic-rural-radio-by-father-edilberto-sena-in-santarem/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/03/brazil-forest-defending-catholic-rural-radio-by-father-edilberto-sena-in-santarem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fighting poverty & Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious forest defense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
For nine years, Father Sena has run a Catholic rural radio station in
his home town of Santarem which reaches at least 500,000 people in the
Amazon. He uses his station to highlight many of his campaigns. &#8220;I am
a human being and see what is happening there, and I am a native
Amazonian, so I can&#8217;t cross my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Lula da Silva’s government has shown an indulgent attitude to violations of basic rights</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/27/brazil-lula-da-silva%e2%80%99s-government-has-shown-an-indulgent-attitude-to-violations-or-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/27/brazil-lula-da-silva%e2%80%99s-government-has-shown-an-indulgent-attitude-to-violations-or-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goverment does nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil lacks a central land register, suffers widespread forgery oftitle deeds and has a long history of squatters seizing land. A widely-quoted study by Imazon, an NGO, reckoned that only 4% of private land in Amazonia is covered by secure title deeds. Much of the rest has been grabbed in the hope of establishing de [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Amazon so vast slavery thrives amid crack downs</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/22/brazil-amazon-is-so-vast-that-slavery-still-thrives-amid-crack-down/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/22/brazil-amazon-is-so-vast-that-slavery-still-thrives-amid-crack-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land of the lawless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slavery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inside one of the vehicles sat Claudio Secchin, a fresh-faced Work
Ministry inspector from Rio de Janeiro who has spent the past nine
years battling a practice that was officially outlawed in Brazil over
a century ago: slavery. As ever, the atmosphere was tense as the
convoy sped out of town and towards that day&#8217;s target, kicking red
clouds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Unlimited &#8216;economic development&#8217; to rare indigenous cultures 	is called Genocide</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/19/brazil-unlimited-economic-development-to-rare-indigenous-cultures-is-called-genocide/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/19/brazil-unlimited-economic-development-to-rare-indigenous-cultures-is-called-genocide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boom bust economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unbridled economic development fueled by globalization are devastating
large swathes of the Amazonian basin, the United Nations warned in a
major study released Wednesday. A population explosion concentrated in
poorly planned cities, deforestation driven by foreign markets for
timber, cash crops and beef, and unprecedented levels of pollution
have all taken a heavy toll on the planet&#8217;s largest forest basin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Counting recent species extinction to 26 with 644 on the way</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/18/brazil-counting-recent-species-extinction-to-26-with-644-on-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/18/brazil-counting-recent-species-extinction-to-26-with-644-on-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest region has recently led to the extinction of 26 animal and plant species, according to a UN agency  report released Wednesday. At the same time, another 644 species of  animals and plants, including the red-faced spider monkey, the  spectacled bear and the otter, were in danger of extinction.
Get full text: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Save world&#8217;s largest wetland! A River delta of the upper 	Paraguay near Bolivia</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/17/brazil-save-worlds-largest-wetland-a-river-delta-of-the-upper-paraguay-near-bolivia/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/17/brazil-save-worlds-largest-wetland-a-river-delta-of-the-upper-paraguay-near-bolivia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wetlands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s a type of Noah&#8217;s Ark but it risks running aground,&#8221; biologist
and tourist guide Elder Brandao de Oliveira says of the Pantanal.
Jaguars still roam the world&#8217;s largest wetland and endangered Hyacinth
Macaws nest in its trees but advancing farms and industries are
destroying Brazil&#8217;s Pantanal region at an alarming rate.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: 322 families in Juma reserve now paid by Marriot Intl. to 	defend their forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/brazil-322-families-in-juma-reserve-now-paid-by-marriot-intl-to-defend-their-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/brazil-322-families-in-juma-reserve-now-paid-by-marriot-intl-to-defend-their-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protection culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REDD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satellite monitoring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A total of 322 families living in the Juma reserve in the Brazilian
state of Amazonas will each receive a monthly allowance in return for
pledging zero deforestation. The Tories decided to support the project
after a visit in December by Greg Barker, shadow environment minister,
on a fact-finding mission. &#8220;Nothing we can do to fight climate change
will succeed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Gov gave indigenous people small pox clothes and arsenic 	sugar in the 1970&#8217;s!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/brazil-gov-gave-indigenous-people-small-pox-clothing-and-arsenic-sugar-in-the-1970s/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/brazil-gov-gave-indigenous-people-small-pox-clothing-and-arsenic-sugar-in-the-1970s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mathias greets me with a gruff smile. As we drive along the main road,
he tells me that his family came from the south in the 1970s as part
of a military-government scheme to colonise the Amazon. In common with
thousands of poor families, they received grants to move and were
given work on a fazenda — a large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: After a harsh paramilitary publicity stunt, genocide returns</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/brazil-after-a-harsh-paramilitary-publicity-stunt-genocide-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/brazil-after-a-harsh-paramilitary-publicity-stunt-genocide-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goverment does nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military forestry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve months ago, troops and police drove illegal loggers out of the
Amazon in an effort to halt deforestation. A year later, the sawmills
are starting to reopen &#8211; and unemployed locals couldn&#8217;t be happier.
Twelve months on, the clampdown is a distant memory. &#8220;The city is
growing, the commerce is growing,&#8221; said Wilson Pereira, the
Pentecostal pastor. &#8220;The sawmills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Sea change turns to protection from Amazon Basin Indigenous 	Peoples Organization</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/brazil-sea-change-turns-to-protection-from-amazon-basin-indigenous-peoples-organization/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/14/brazil-sea-change-turns-to-protection-from-amazon-basin-indigenous-peoples-organization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protection culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protection needed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please help this document reframe the debate of deforestation in the
Amazon! Brazil and neighboring countries must no longer debate from a
frame of &#8220;development of the rainforest&#8221; and instead must be pushed into
the frame of human rights violations of indigenous peoples and their
traditional culturally specific forest landscapes. &#8211;Editor, Forest
Policy Research

The Amazon Basin Indigenous Peoples Organization (COICA) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: REDD / Indigenous people are both cutting edge &amp; a long way 	away from that edge</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/brazil-redd-indigenous-people-are-both-cutting-edge-a-long-way-away-from-that-edge/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/brazil-redd-indigenous-people-are-both-cutting-edge-a-long-way-away-from-that-edge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protection culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REDD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the Waiãpí is not untypical of how indigenous peoples
have fared in the Brazilian Amazon. Around 700 Waiãpí live in a number
of small villages in a reserve covering 1.5 million acres of what is
conventionally described as pristine rainforest but is actually
nothing of the kind — it is intensively used by the Waiãpí, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France: Brazilian dam building debacle leads to the bust of Jirau for 	illegal logging</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/france-brazilian-dam-building-debacle-leads-to-the-bust-of-jirau-for-illegal-logging/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/france-brazilian-dam-building-debacle-leads-to-the-bust-of-jirau-for-illegal-logging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dams flood forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian environmental authorities on Tuesday fined the consortium
that is building the Jirau hydroelectric dam on the Bolivian border
for destroying part of the forest in a nature preserve. The
consortium, headed by France&#8217;s Suez and comprised of several Brazilian
firms, cut down 18.65 hectares (about 47 acres) of Amazon forest
without authorization for which it will now have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Amnesty for deforesters who have been required to replant?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/09/brazil-amnesty-for-deforesters-who-have-been-required-to-replant/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/09/brazil-amnesty-for-deforesters-who-have-been-required-to-replant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goverment does nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reforestation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
A blow up in Brazil  over a reduction in how much area rural landholders in one part of the Amazon  have to replant, with environmental activists slamming what they said amounts  to an amnesty. &#8220;This move is an amnesty, a pardon for those who engaged in  deforestation and who haven&#8217;t replanted,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Land Rights, clip from &#8220;Quilombo Country&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/07/brazil-land-rights-clip-from-quilombo-country/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/07/brazil-land-rights-clip-from-quilombo-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[call to action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[encroachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local control of resource]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We call everyone to radical and profound action and reflection in this
grave moment when our mother earth is sick with the fever of global
warming, soon to rise by 2 degrees. Mother earth is beginning to
convulse and it will soon become very difficult to heal her. The
illness of this suicide is destruction, in the name of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Global commodity markets define increase or decreases in 	deforestation rates</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/07/brazil-global-commodity-markets-define-increase-or-decreases-in-deforestation-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/07/brazil-global-commodity-markets-define-increase-or-decreases-in-deforestation-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satellite monitoring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, INPE scientists analyze dozens of satellite images to see
what has changed. The most recent images showed a loss of 11,968
square kilometers (4,600 square miles) of forest from Brazil&#8217;s
Amazonian states between Aug. 2007 and July 2008. That was up nearly 4
percent from the year before, but still nearly 20 percent below the
rate of loss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: If all of Brazil&#8217;s wrong way policies aren&#8217;t stopped soon&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/06/brazil-if-all-of-brazils-wrong-way-policies-arent-stopped-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/06/brazil-if-all-of-brazils-wrong-way-policies-arent-stopped-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military forestry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He drove up behind a flatbed truck hauling logs out of this Amazonian
forest. It was yet another affront to Portela, an environmental
official responsible for protecting this rapidly dwindling national
forest from settlers and loggers, but both Portela and the truck
driver knew where things stood. The driver leaned out and smiled and
waved, casually. Portela gripped the steering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Rebel Bishop forest defenders need bodyguards</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/brazil-rebel-bishop-forest-defenders-need-bodyguards/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/brazil-rebel-bishop-forest-defenders-need-bodyguards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assasination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious forest defense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The rebel bishop can not stand having to obey to his two bodyguards
even during the Catholic prayer services. &#8220;Having to deal with two
armed men even here?&#8221; &#8211; he says annoyed and filled with indignation,
in spite of the fact that the two men are there to protect him. The
bishop is D. Erwin Krautler. He is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Greenpeace and Mongabay&#8217;s report and reporting on Cattle</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/brazil-greenpeace-and-mongabays-report-and-reporting-on-cattle/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/brazil-greenpeace-and-mongabays-report-and-reporting-on-cattle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greeenpeace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Industry Must: 1) Support the call for zero Deforestation in the
Brazilian Amazon. 2) Stop the trade in products from deforestation and
communicate to suppliers that they will no longer buy from companies
engaged in deforestation. 3) Provide reliable guarantees of the origin
of cattle products such as meat and leather to customers. 4) Reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by adopting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: It&#8217;s all about the Cows</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/brazil-its-all-about-the-cows/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/brazil-its-all-about-the-cows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green activists say that country&#8217;s determination to double its share
of the world beef market is likely to undermine its new targets for
halting Amazon rainforest destruction and reducing carbon emissions.
The South American country has the world&#8217;s largest cattle herd and is
already the biggest beef exporter on the planet. Now the Brazilian
government is seeking to boost its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: More on plight of indigenous at World social forum</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/31/brazil-more-on-plight-of-indigenous-at-world-social-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local control of resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon Indian reservations continue to be invaded by loggers, ranchers
and farmers, despite a global financial crisis that has hurt the
demand for their commodities, representatives from across the region
said Friday. Indians at the World Social Forum told The Associated
Press that a lack of government support is undercutting the fight
against illegal invasions by people seeking to clear [...]]]></description>
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