Deforestation Worsening In Brazil Claims Greenpeace

WOOD PILE

by Staff Writers
Sao Paulo (AFP) March 6, 2008
Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon region is set to worsen this year, or at least remain at the same devastating level of the past couple of years, the environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday.

"Field studies show that there are more deforested areas than those seen by satellite, because of cloud cover. There are completely covered area that have not had satellite imagery for four years," one of its members, Paulo Adario, told reporters in Sao Paulo.

Greenpeace said Brazil's government was largely to blame for the stripping of the forest, having fallen short in a preservation program because of "a lack of executive and political coordination."

Brasilia has been cracking down on illegal logging and land-clearing in the Amazon since revealing that its vast forest -- sometimes called the lungs of the Earth for its role in absorbing carbon dioxide -- had lost another 7,000 square kilometers (2,700 square miles) in the last half of 2007.

The government on Wednesday announced it was doubling fines against those found contributing to the deforestation to 5,000 dollars.

Greenpeace called for the measures to go further, including the creation of a landowners' registry in the Amazon to make it easier to determine responsibility for cleared areas.

"Brazil doesn't know who is who, or where people are in the Amazon," another Greenepeace representative, Marcelo Marquesini, said.

Memory Foam Mattress Review

SPACE MEDIA NETWORK PROMOTIONS
Solar Energy Solutions
Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison ...

Newsletters :: SpaceDaily :: SpaceWar :: TerraDaily :: Energy Daily
XML Feeds :: Space News :: Earth News :: War News :: Solar Energy News

WOOD PILE

Researcher: Wild California just a memory

San Francisco (UPI) Mar 03, 2008
A California researcher said nearly all of California's 31 million acres of forest have been changed in some way by humans.

INTERNET SPACE Apple iPhone aiming to dethrone BlackBerry Google stock price sinks on Internet ad-slump fears HP And Qualcomm To Deliver Options For Worldwide Internet Access Google's Android debuts in Barcelona	LAUNCH PAD Russia To Launch US Communications Satellite On March 15 ILS To Launch Two SIRIUS Radio Satellite On Proton Breeze M Ariane 5 Star One C2 Satellite Launch Campaign Underway ILS Announces Contract To Launch Two Sirius Satellite Radio Spacecraft On Proton Breeze M
AEROSPACE Northrop, EADS to invest 600 mln dlrs in Alabama site China air passenger traffic up 16.8 percent in 2007: state media Environmentalists climb on Heathrow jet in airport protest: officials NASA opens a rotary wing research project	MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS Northrop Grumman Delivers Payload Module For Second Advanced EHF Military Communications Satellite Orbital Awarded Contract For System F6 Satellite Program By DARPA Lockheed Martin Completes Rigorous Test Of First Advanced Military Communications Satellite Northrop Grumman And Harris Demonstrate Airborne Networking
TECH SPACE Europe's GEANT computer network extends its reach Siberian Shepherd Seeks A Million Rubles Over Rocket Fragment Fall Boeing Satellites Reach 2500 Years Of Accumulated On Orbit Services Satellite Debris Analysis Indicates Hydrazine Tank Hit	APPOINTMENTS NASA Names John Shannon New Space Shuttle Manager Michael Larkin Appointed Executive Vice President Of Orbital's Satellite Business Unit Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Looks To Future With Leadership Changes Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems Names Carey VP For ISR Systems
EARTH OBSERVATION Falcon Investigates Pollution From The Dakar Metropolis Into Desert Dust Layers NASA Extends Mission For Ball Aerospace-Built ICESat CIRA Scientist Among Authors Of Book Celebrating 50 Years Of Earth Observations From Space Indonesia To Develop New EO Satellite	GPS NEWS Second Galileo Spacecraft Prepares For Launch Positiontracer - A Bodyguard On Your Mobile Phone Talk Back To The New NAVIGON 8110 With Nuance's Speech Technology New Mobile Phone Technology From Secure Identity Systems Stops Card Fraud Cold

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright Space.TV Corporation. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space.TV Corp on any Web page published or hosted by Space.TV Corp. Privacy Statement