Tag: Amazon Jungle

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 23:09 UTC

  Chevron/Ecuadorean villagers case in new chapter before a US Judge

  

  Chevron Corp will try to convince a US judge that a group of Ecuadorean villagers and their US lawyer used bribery to win a 18 billion dollars judgment against Chevron from a court in Ecuador, in the latest chapter in a long-running fight over pollution in the Amazon jungle.

• Thursday, September 6th 2012 - 05:46 UTC

  Despite Chavez denial, Yanomami indigenous tribe claim there was a massacre

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday became the latest senior official to insist there is no evidence of an alleged massacre of some 80 Yanomami indigenous people.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 22:54 UTC

  Rousseff announces veto of several Forest Code controversial amendments

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Friday that she is vetoing some of the controversial amendments to the country’s Forest Code that would have substantially weakened the country’s forest protection and climate mitigation actions.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 22:56 UTC

  Major earthquake rocks Amazon region of Peru, next to Brazil, felt in Lima

  

  A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck a remote Amazon region of Peru on Wednesday, shaking office buildings far away in the capital and in neighbouring Brazil although no injuries or damage were reported immediately.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 16:21 UTC

  Brazil spots untouched Indian tribe in the Amazon jungle

  

  One of Brazil's last untouched Indian tribes has been spotted in a dense region of the Amazon jungle close to the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) reported. A couple of years ago another tribe was spotted in the same area in an Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River.