457 Latin American Tree News
Today for you 29 new articles about earth’s trees! (457th edition)
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1) Jamaica: Many reasons why the hills have lost there trees
2) Jamaica: Deforestation in the Cookpit Country
3) Puerto Rico: Urban forest cutting permits just got way too easy to get!
4) Mexico: Chicle Gum from tree sap keeps cultural tradition alive
5) Costa Rica: Kèköldi is a 5000 hectare reserve
6) Panama: Gamboa Rainforest
7) Panama: Green’s growing is now all of sudden about Molybdenum
8) El Salvador: has Acid Rain?
9) Nicaragua: Praise for giving Awas Tingni community title to its traditional lands
10) Nicaragua: Indigenous rainforest community wins title to ancestral lands http://bit.ly/a6jz
11) Colombia: Save the rainforest by making Cocaine legal:
12) Columbia: Afro-Columbians evicted for Oil Palm http://bit.ly/1Oje
13) Colombia: 200 acres preserved for rare amphibians http://bit.ly/O4jl
14) Bolivia: Morales has to live up to his message and protect the people’s forest http://bit.ly/Xa3B
15) Peru: The rainforest is like falling in love & I can’t leave! http://bit.ly/7Mel
16) Peru: Ultimatum for Talisman to abandon their oil explorations
17) Peru: Seeking $200 million in international contributions over the next ten years http://bit.ly/164P3
18) Peru: Drug traffickers have destroyed nearly 2 million hectares
19) Paraguay: Agribusiness protests landless farmers http://bit.ly/oJBy
20) Paraguay: Last Isolated peoples threatened by biofuels http://bit.ly/xAeH
21) Argentina: Summer Wildfires reach new found intensity in Tierra Del Fuego http://bit.ly/Pp04
22) Argentina: Supreme Court orders retroactive halt to deforestation in Salta Province!
23) Brazil: Mendez assasinated 20 years ago today, his predecessors threatened even more! http://bit.ly/11ny9
24) Brazil: Chico Mendez & a thousand similar killings have occurred since 1988 http://bit.ly/x0t1
25) Brazil: In memory of Chico Mendes, his memorials and his murder http://bit.ly/hDfB
26) Brazil: new system for mapping destruction reporting surge in partial cuts http://bit.ly/161n1
27) Brazil: In the past 3 years Atlantic rainforest deforestation is 9 times the 2000-2005 rates
28) Brazil: Dorothy Stang murder suspect in custody again http://bit.ly/20Bf
29) Brazil: MAP is a forest that was once known as the “end of the world” http://bit.ly/V0NE