Leeds University is part of a research group that maintains about 130 land stations across the Amazon region.
Promoting equitable access by diverse local stakeholders to means of cultural expression and dissemination for Intercultural governance Ecuador's Amazon region.
In 2005, severe drought in the Amazon region saw widespread wildfires that turned the rainforest into a carbon source.
Sharing a name with what was once the largest Indian tribe in the Amazon region, the Guarani is also Paraguay's currency.
The mayor of Tucurui, a town in the Amazon region, was shot and injured on the way to a rally this week.
Requena is a very small city in the Upper Amazon region of Peru (population 25, 000), near a tri-border area with Colombia and Brazil.
President Lula is currently debating whether to ratify a bill that would grant legal status to illegal settlers and loggers in the Amazon region.
Indigenous groups from the Amazon region have marched for 700km (430 miles) to protest against plans for an open-cast copper mine in their region.
But many of the huge landholdings are in the Amazon region, and much of their land is unsuited to farming of any kind, though in other places there is indeed scope for redistribution.
"The mere expectation that the amendment to the Forest Law and its consequent weakening would be approved set off a disturbing wave of renewed deforestation in the Amazon region, as has been unequivocally demonstrated by data recently released by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE), " they write.
Cardenas said Amazon-region monkeys are often hunted for meat, for experiments or as pets.
LIMA, Peru (AP) Peru's government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at the country's most productive oil fields, which are currently operated by Argentina-based Pluspetrol.
"They're currently in a remote, paradise-like region of the Peruvian Amazon, which is difficult to access, " he told CNN.
One-room evangelical churches now dot the Latin American landscape, from remote Amazon villages to the labyrinthine slums that surround the region's major cities.
According to the pressure group Greenpeace, expansion of the cattle industry in the Amazon is the single biggest cause of deforestation in the region.
One-room evangelical churches now dot the Latin American landscape, from remote Amazon villages to the labyrinthine slums that surround the poor-region's major cities.
The problems started at 12:47 AM PDT on April 21st when Amazon was shifting traffic in one of its zones in the U.S. East region from one network to another in order to upgrade a network.
Most people think the Amazon is the place to go to see Brazilian flora and fauna, but the Pantanal region is easily just as rich in animals and they're easier to spot, especially during rainy season when rivers rise forcing animals literally onto islands.
It formalizes the relationship between those who want to use the genetic resources of a given area, say as a basis for developing cosmetics or pharmaceuticals, and those who live in the region where the resources are found, for example an indigenous community in the Amazon.
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