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Brazil: Amazon Indians occupy controversial dam to demand a say
2013-05-04 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Amazon Indians on Friday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralyzed work on the world's third largest hydroelectric dam for two days. Some 200 people from various indigenous groups occupied one of three construction sites of the controversial Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River on Thursday, halting work by 3,000 of the 22,000 workers on the project. They are demanding that the Brazilian government hold prior consultations with indigenous peoples before building...
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VIDEO: Indians reaping profits on Georgian farms
2013-04-03 13:03:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Georgia is encouraging Indian farmers to move to their country to help increase agricultural output - but many local farmers think the government should be doing more to help them instead.
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Climate Change Disrupts Astronomical Calculations for Amazon Indians
2013-04-02 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox: Forecasts that Brazil's Amazonian Indians make with guidance from the stars to determine the best time to fish and plant crops are being disrupted by climate change. "Shamans say their forecasts are becoming inexact and we find that certain phenomena caused by climate change are disrupting their calculations," astronomer Germano Afonso, coordinator of a study among indigenous groups, told Efe. Afonso, who built and operates an observatory in the Amazon region, said that observing the constellations...
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'The Cape Fear River Indians'
2013-03-28 02:39:36| Paper - Topix.net
Cape Fear Community College and SlapDash Publishing of Carolina Beach have teamed up to release "Cape Fear River Indians" by Phillip D. Garwood.
Amazon Indians unite against Canadian oil giant
2013-03-16 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Survival International: Amazon Indians from Peru and Brazil have joined together to stop a Canadian oil company destroying their land and threatening the lives of uncontacted tribes. Hundreds of Matsés Indians gathered on the border of Peru and Brazil last Saturday and called on their governments to stop the exploration, warning that the work will devastate their forest home. The oil giant Pacific Rubiales is headquartered in Canada and has already started oil exploration in 'Block 135` in Peru, which lies directly...
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