Sentences with phrase «brazilian rain forest»

Or the mere $ 18 billion it would take to preserve the remainder of the Brazilian rain forest, which provides far more value as a source of clean air and medicinal treasure.

The original report suggested «up to 40 percent» of Brazilian rain forest was extremely sensitive to small reductions in the amount of rainfall, but the IPCC expanded that to cover the entire Amazon, the Times reported.

José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, a Brazilian rain forest activist, and his wife are shot dead near their home in Para State, in the Amazon.

I was happy to see this fresh Retro Report production on the legacy of Chico Mendes, the Brazilian rain forest defender who was slain by a ranching family in December, 1988 as land conflicts followed road building in the depths of the Amazon.

[9] Made between 1973 and 1977, The Origin of the Night: Amazon Cosmos is a 98 - minutes film on the Brazilian rain forest and the creation stories of the Tupi Indians; Baumgarten took the film's story from Claude Lévi - Strauss's book From Honey to Ashes.

David Foster, an animal lover who travels the world and gives back to homeless pets across the globe with his Play for Strays project, was on a river cruise expedition in the Brazilian rain forest when his boat stopped at an uncivilized island in the middle of the Amazon.

Blue Macaw couple Blu (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway) are raising their three young chicks in Rio de Janeiro when Jewel learns that a group of rare blue Macaws has been spotted in the Brazilian rain forest and persuades her city - raised husband to embark on a 2,000 - mile journey to find them.

The tiny berries, which come from the Brazilian rain forest, are an antioxidant wonder and their rich taste contains hints of berries and chocolate.

There was another Tunguska - class strike in the Brazilian rain forest on August 13, 1930.

He found an interesting shrub in the Brazilian rain forest related to the rubber tree.

While filming the elusive Basilisk lizard, which can sprint on water for up to 100 feet in moments of danger, photographers ventured deep into the Brazilian rain forest with a super-slow-motion camera shooting at 2,000 frames per second, 80 times as rapid as a traditional camera.

He has done field research in the Brazilian rain forests, the savannahs of East Africa, the shrublands of northern Sweden and the forests of Europe and eastern North America.

Last year Clovis Borges was recognised for conserving Brazilian rain forests to preserve bio-diversity and capture CO2.

Not exact matches

This particular forest is located between the rain forest of the Amazon Basin and the tropical Brazilian Savanna, so it plays a crucial role in both regional and global biogeochemical cycling.

The Brazilian Association for the Sustainable Use of Amazonia Biodiversity is a national research program sponsoring research on the tropical rain forest.

No one — not Dos Santos or any of the other villagers of Barra do São Manuel, a tiny settlement on the banks of the Tapajós River deep in the Brazilian Amazon, or anyone else in the vast rain forest — relishes facing it, with or without shotgun in hand.

The second is a solo devoted to a single artist, the contemporary Brazilian photographer Caio Reisewitz, whose big color images of threatened tropical rain forests offer a lush antidote to urban grit — Manhattan's included.

The longtime Amazon rain forest researcher Tom Lovejoy and former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt just co-wrote an essay for the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo making this point and gave me permission to run the English version here:

Twenty - four years ago, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy and other biologists began a remarkable experiment on the fast - eroding fringe of rain forest near the Brazilian city of Manaus.

The human rights group Survival International says it has received reports, not yet independently verified, of a July massacre of a Yanomami Indian community by Brazilian gold miners in the Venezuelan portion of the Amazon rain forest along the border with Brazil.

One was Richard Huber, a retired insurance executive who, with some partners, in 1974 bought about 74,000 acres of rain forest land in the Brazilian state of Acre, near the base of Chico Mendes, the labor and land - rights organizer who was murdered by ranchers in 1988.

He reacted strongly to my recent cautiously upbeat statement — made while conducting an onstage interview with a Brazilian ecologist — about prospects that the rain forests there could persist through this century even as human numbers and appetites crest.

There is no area given that is strictly limited to the Brazilian portion of the rain forest but it can be easily approximated by subtracting about 1.5 m km2 from the total area, leaving about 4m km2 [4].

The rain forest in South America would have shriveled short of the Brazilian Air Force doing Air Control & more over the farms.

Changes in habitat use at rain forest edges through succession: a case study of understory birds in the Brazilian Amazon

Space for this increased Brazilian production is likely to be obtained by cutting down rain forests, which will tend to increase global warming gasses.