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Brazil sets final rules for forest use, allows tradable credits
2014-05-07 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Brazilian government published a final set of regulations on the use of its forests on Tuesday that could push farmers to restore a huge amount of illegally cleared native vegetation and encourage the use of "tradeable forest credits" to help protect the environment. The new rules come two years after the approval of a law, known as the Forest Code, that was designed to safeguard the country's forests, although some environmentalists still think it is too timid to do the job. Under the...
In Brazil, Millions Now Flowing To Indigenous Ecosystem Service Programs
2014-05-07 09:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: Chief Tojtxi never forgot his first, furtive contact with the invaders. "We saw traces of the whites, and fled into the forest," he told Survival International a few years back. "The whites saw our footsteps and followed us. We went further and further away, but the whites came to our village, and we left our plantations, our caxiri (manioc drink), and everything, to flee." He was chief of the Arara, an isolated people of the Amazon Rainforest who had their first contact with Brazilian authorities...
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BASF Receives Award as 2013 Supplier of the Year from Hyundai Motor Brazil
2014-05-07 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
Waiting for a shanty home in Brazil
2014-05-07 03:29:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The city with waiting lists for homes with no running water
BRAZIL: Beer tax hike a "surprise" - trade group
2014-05-06 19:09:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
The trade body for Brazil's biggest brewers has said it is "surprised" by the government's decision to change the country's tax code on beverage sales.
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