it is the others who occupy 86%,” Lula recalled while insisting that the expansion of indigenous territories was a necessity to preserve the Amazon. Lula made those remarks at the 52nd Assembly ...

On his first trip to Indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest since taking office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed support for creating new territories for those ...

We're asking President Lula da Silva to announce an immediate end to the felling of Amazon trees to create large cattle ranches and commit to zero deforestation in the rainforest by 2015”, says ...

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

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Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and ... Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva boasted that this year’s event will be “a COP in the Amazon ...

Experts think that if deforestation is cut back, there's a chance of preventing the Amazon rainforest from reaching a point where the forest will never recover. Image caption, Lula was sworn in as ...

The environment ministry said that efforts by inspectors were important in bringing about the fall, President Lula had promised to restore the Amazon rainforest when he was trying to get elected ...

Despite presiding over a major cut-down of Amazon deforestation ... exploration in the crucial rainforest and biodiversity hotspot Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva 'We have reefs ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met Wednesday with a leader of Brazil's Yanomami people, who asked for papal backing for President Luiz Inácio Lula da ... The Amazon rainforest, covering an area ...

BELEM, Brazil — Brazil and France on Tuesday launched an investment program to protect the Brazilian and Guyanese Amazon rainforest involving ... President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

For fourteen years the countries which contain the Amazon rainforest have been struggling to protect it. The last time the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hosted a meeting of the ...