Amazon News - December 29th 2005

[Alan Sondheim]

Amazon News
Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon

Amazon News is a weekly information service provided by www.amazonia.org.br, the largest bilingual site on the Brazilian Amazon region, in partnership with several Brazilian media.
Its publisher is Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon, a Brazilian non-profit and public interest registered organization.

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Dear Friend,
We wish you a Very Happy New Year!!!!

The news this week:    

Deal frees Brazil prison hostages
BBC - 12/29/2005

Year's review - Minister of the Environment highlights actions against deforestation and the granting of licenses
Radiobrás - 12/28/2005

Three more territories in Para state
O Liberal - 12/28/2005

No end to Brazil hostage crisis
BBC - 12/28/2005

Brazil Police Reach Deal on Prison Hostage Release
New York Times - 12/28/2005

Dorothy's case: condemned´s transference requested
Diário do Pará - 12/27/2005

Exploitation of Para State's mountain conceded to 43 thousand miners
Agência Estado - 12/27/2005

Brazil Inmates Hold 207 Relatives Hostage
Washington Post - 12/27/2005

Project to define the limits of the municipality located within an indigenous territory
Agência Senado - 12/26/2005

Indigenous schools will have the highest investment ever made in the area
O Estado de S.Paulo - 12/26/2005

Deforestation - Not even parks remain
O Estado de S.Paulo - 12/26/2005

Municipalities - The smell of impunity in the air
Diário do Pará - 12/25/2005

Lula wants to facilitate environmental licenses
O Estado de S.Paulo - 12/25/2005

Dorothy's case- Justice maintains accused in prison
Diário do Pará - 12/24/2005

AP: Brazilian Reporter Defends Amazon
Washington Post - 12/24/2005

Government concedes mining permission in Para State's mountain
O Liberal - 12/23/2005

Earthquake Rattles Ecuador's Amazon Jungle
Washington Post - 12/23/2005

Gunmen- Agency in the south of Para state
Diário do Pará - 12/22/2005

License for paving major federal road in Amazonia is granted
Ministério do Meio Ambiente - 12/21/2005

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