Topic: Amazonas
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Pink dolphins are being slaughtered for bait
Pink dolphins in the Amazon river are being killed to be used as bait. The pink dolphin population could collapse, scientists say, if this practice continues.
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Difference Maker Kurt Holle's ecolodge employs locals while slowing the devastation of the Amazon
He opened Posada Amazonas to tourists in 1996. By 2016, Peru's indigenous Eseeja community will operate the business by itself.
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In Brazil's Wild West, police press politician with investigation
Police say the Amazonas congressman and former host of a TV crime show Wallace Souza led a gang to carry out violence to boost ratings and appeal.
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As farms close in on the Amazon, families get paid to save trees
A new Brazilian program, run by a private foundation, illustrates a new way of thinking about saving forests – that the economy drives conservation.
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