Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0504221829390.18106@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Amazon News - April 22th, 2005 (fwd)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:29:45 -0400 (EDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:39:05 -0300 (GMT-03:00) From: newsletter@amazonia.org.br To: sondheim@panix.com Subject: Amazon News - April 22th, 2005 Amazon News Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Amazon News is a weekly information service provided by www.amazonia.org.br, the largest bilingual site on the Brazilian Amazon region, in partnership with several Brazilian media. Its publisher is Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon, a Brazilian non-profit and public interest registered organization. ________________________________________________________________________________ The news this week: Number of rural conflicts doubles during Lula's government O Estado de S.Paulo - 04/20/2005 IBAMA releases tortoises that survived hunters O Estado de S.Paulo - 04/20/2005 Rice farmers refuse to leave the Roraima Indigenous Reserve and promise armed resistance O Estado de S.Paulo - 04/20/2005 State resolves to develop tourism O Estado de S.Paulo - 04/19/2005 Roraima�s governor declares mourning and files an action against the reserve O Estado de S.Paulo - 04/19/2005 Lula announces legalisation of five Indigenous Territories in Amazonia Amazonia.org.br - 04/19/2005 MPF/PA contests in the Federal Court the largest land grabbed area in Brazil Procuradoria Geral da Rep�blica - Minist�rio P�blico - 04/18/2005 Indigenous specialist accuses the STJ of ignoring village and favouring land grabbers O Estado de S.Paulo - 04/18/2005 US church's illegal tea faces ban BBC - 04/18/2005 The "value" of the tortoise O Eco - 04/17/2005 Registers show that Indigenous Peoples live in Raposa region for the last four centuries Radiobras - 04/16/2005 Amazonia Protection System celebrates third year and launches internet site Radiobras - 04/15/2005 Free Green Zone to be presented to "bleu-blanc-rouge" Conservation International - Brasil - 04/15/2005 Indigenous peoples struggle for almost 30 years to obtain demarcation Radiobras - 04/15/2005 Order establishes new demarcation of Raposa Serra do Sol Reserve Radiobras - 04/15/2005 Brazil authorises Indian reserve BBC - 04/15/2005 Processes that questioned the Raposa Serra do Sol Reserve's demarcation are dismissed Supremo Tribunal Federal - 04/14/2005 Consumption decline of timber in Amazonia Jornal do Commercio - 04/14/2005 Legal administrative processes that questioned the demarcation of the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous reserve are suppressed Supremo Tribunal Federal - 04/14/2005 Barros defends PL of Forestry Concession in the Congress IBAMA - 04/13/2005 MZEE receives 17 amendments in AL ISA- Instituto Socioambiental - 04/13/2005 Federal court prohibits the reduction of the APA in Tocantins state ISA- Instituto Socioambiental - 04/13/2005 European Union discusses measures to avoid the exportation of illegal timber Amazonia.org.br - 04/13/2005 More news Click here if you want to unsubscribe for the newsletter. If the links are not displayed correctly, click here. ________________________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this communication because your e-mail address has been registered with Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon. This newsletter is produced by Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon. www.amazonia.org.br "Amazon is not just a forest"