400 new species including a vegetarian piranha found in amazon
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/23/scientists-find-morethan400newspeciesinamazonrainforest.html
the one that took a deep surgical triangular chunk out of my left middle finger when I was doing the vanity fair story about the dehydration of the amazon was definitely not a vegetarian. and I was not bleeding or menstruating, nor were my toenails painted red. Most piranha attacks on people happen when they …Read More
Global Warming And the Social Psychology of Denial
I was talking about this the other day with a long-time conservationist. Sandy, a monster hurricane whipped up by human emissions, makes a direct hit on Gotham. What more do you want to make the message clear that global warming is here and it’s real and it’s us ? But what do New Yorkers do …Read More
A Reporter at Large (The Amazons)
New Yorker, Mar 24, 1986
THE Nhamunda River rises in the mountainous terra incognita of northern Brazil below the Guyana border and, flowing southeast, enters the Amazon River about threequarters of the way down its fourthousand-mile length. Compared with some of the Amazon’s other tributaries, seven of which are over a thousand miles long, the Nhamunda …Read More
A Critic at Large, Henry Walter Bates
New Yorker, Aug 22, 1988
IF I were heading for the Amazon and had room in my tropical kit for just one book, my choice would unquestionably be Henry Walter Bates’s “The Naturalist on the River Amazons.” A hundred and twenty-five years after its first appearance, it remains the basic text, one of the monuments of …Read More
14 shamans murdered in Peru
the liquidation of our planet’s biocultural diversity continues, much of it in its remotest fastness, out of sight hearing and mind. http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/14-shamans-murdered-in-peru/. The rancher who murdered Chico Mendes in l988 were astounded by the globa outcry, because they had killed the two previous leaders of the Amazon Rubber Tappers’ Union and no one had said …Read More
still open season on rainforest activists in the amazon
Death in the Amazon: Brazil accused of protecting trees but not its people
Progress in reducing logging marred by brutal killings of environmental campaigners
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Tom Phillips and Gabriel Elizondo in Maraba
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 September 2011 21.55 BST
Article history
Death in the Amazon – a deforested area burns near Novo Progresso in …Read More
ghastly new developments in the Amazon
here’s an excellent report by the New Yorker’s John Lee Anderson : http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/06/murder-in-the-amazon.html
also there’s a new outbreak of piracy preying on the double and triple deck river ferries that ply the Amazon : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/17/brazil-amazon-pirates?INTCMP=SRCH
#33: The Amazon Research and Conservation Center on the Rio de Las Piedras, in the Peruvian Amazon
By Alex Shoumatoff
From the plane we catch glimpses of the Urubamba River, below Machu Picchu, plunging thousands of feet, then snaking through an ocean of trees that spreads east until it is lost in haze—the Amazon, the world’s largest and most diverse rainforest. We land in the humid furnace of Puerto Maldonado, the fourth-largest city …Read More
#15 The Decimation of the Amazon Indians
Draft of an entry on the decimation of the Amazon Indians for a forthcoming three-volume encyclopedia on genocide and crimes against humanity, to be published by MacMillan, under the general editorship of Diane l. Shelton
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The decimation of the Amazon’s native people over the past four centuries illustrates two patterns outlined in Benjamin Whitaker’s l985 …Read More