amazon rain forest

Interesting news from Brazil: President Lula has launched yesterday an international fund to fight deforestation of the Amazon and support conservation and sustainable development. The fund will seek donations worldwide with the goal of raising 21 billion dollars by 2021. But will it really save the Amazon?

Recent photographs have proven the existance of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon Rain Forest. Modern man could upset the delicate balance of their lives.

Good news from Brazil - the Brazilian government inaugurated a condom factory that will help both poor Brazilian rubber tappers to make a living and to preserve the Amazon rain forest. Sounds like a win-win deal to me!

Leaders of hundreds of indigenous groups in 11 Latin American countries sought consensus on a conservation plan for tropical forests like the Amazon.

Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris writes on the bad news from Brazil about the increasing deforestation in the Amazon rain forest, the measures taken to fight it, and what he thinks should be added to these measures to make sure these precious trees will be kept alive.