Last month the sixth Pan Amazon Social Forum brought together hundreds of community leaders, academics, and NGO representatives from across the Amazon to discuss and debate common challenges and forge collaborative solutions.
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Special Report: Brazil Backslides on Protecting the Amazon
Reuters | In the 19 months since Rousseff took office, longstanding rules that curtail deforestation and protect millions of square kilometres of watershed have been rolled back.
Is Brazil Destroying The Amazon For Energy?
Forbes | Who said women were stewards of the environment? Brazil's first woman president, Dilma Rousseff wants to eliminate more than 86,000 hectares of protected areas in the Amazon.
Dam-Affected People Deliver Half a Million Signatures to Stop the Belo Monte Dam
Several Hundred Amazonian Indigenous Leaders and Dam-Affected People Participate in Colorful Demonstration and Deliver Signatures to the Office of the President
Brasilia, Brazil – Over half a million people, most of them Brazilians, are calling on newly-elected President Dilma to halt plans to construct the Belo Monte Dam. Outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace, several hundred people gathered in protest, including indigenous chiefs and community leaders from the Xingu River basin.
March and Human Banner Are Reminder that "The Rivers of the Amazon Are Alive"
700 people, many threatened by dams and deforestation, form a human banner on Tapajós River in Santarém to bring attention to the threat of large dams in the Amazon
Santarém, Para, Brazil – For the people of the Amazon, the forests and the rivers are life. That is why they mobilized at the V Pan Amazon Forum in a global call to protect the rivers of the Amazon.
