[CC] Amazon News - April 22th, 2005 (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

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Subject: Amazon News - April 22th, 2005

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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 República - Ministério Público - 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

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