Word: amazon
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...South America large areas of the Amazon Basin have been reserved for the exclusive use of Brazilian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Venezuelan Indians. The rights of tribes to conduct their own affairs, form their own councils and receive royalties for mining activities on Indian lands are gradually being recognized...
...sudden upheaval, which lasted a week and virtually shut down the country, < shocked the European and mixed-race elites that have ruled Ecuador for centuries -- but it also produced results. Last May, then President Rodrigo Borja agreed to hand over legal title to more than 2.5 million acres of Amazon land to 109 communities of Quichua, Achuar and Shiwiar peoples in the eastern province of Pastaza...
...tufted ears is the latest species to be discovered in the world's largest rain forest. Named after the Brazilian river near which it was spied, the Maues marmoset is the third new monkey to be found in the forest during the last two years. Such revelations underscore the Amazon's biological richness (it is home to more than a quarter of the world's known primate species) and its continuing mystery...
...done to the Oregon landscape. "Either my eyes were lying, or I was kidding myself about logging being sustainable," he says. From the air, Oregon's national forests look far worse than the rain forests of Rondonia, Brazil, which has become a symbol of the wanton destruction of the Amazon. Atiyeh argues that automation and exports have cost far more jobs than the protection of endangered species has. Between 1980 and '88 the amount of timber cut in western Oregon increased 19% while timber employment fell 14%. The Administration's hard line on the environment does not appear...
...border between Brazil and Bolivia is a rare place where people profit from nature without destroying it. Called the Pantanal, it is a giant freshwater wetland that covers 140,000 sq km (54,000 sq. mi.). Unlike Brazil's other three great ecosystems -- the Atlantic forests, the Amazon and the plain called the Cerrado -- the Pantanal has not yet suffered grievous damage at the hand of man. Even more amazing, it retains some of the densest concentrations of wildlife in the Americas, despite the fact that settlers have worked cattle ranches in the area for more than 200 years...