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Brazil uses radar to protect isolated tribes
Guardian: The Brazilian government has said it will employ heat-seeking radar in a last-ditch attempt to save the country's remaining groups of isolated Indians. The body-heat sensors will be mounted on a Brazilian air force jet normally used to monitor rainforest destruction and will be used to locate an estimated 39 groups of isolated indigenous people, hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. The authorities hope the system will help them to locate groups of isolated Indians to protect them ...
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Brazil to use body-heat sensing technology to find uncontacted Amazon tribes
Mongabay: Brazil will use a plane equipped with body-heat sensing technology to locate tribes in the Amazon rainforest, reports the Associated Press. The effort will enable FUNAI, Brazil's Indian affairs agency, to push for the establishment of reserves to better protect isolated tribes from encroachment by loggers, miners, and ranchers. Developers aiming to clear land for timber, cattle pasture and farms have been known to hire bounty hunters to seek out and kill forest dwellers before ...
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Last uncontacted tribe in Paraguay rapidly losing homeland
Mongabay: An indigenous rights' group has sounded the alarm over a new threat to an uncontacted tribe in Paraguay. Survival International, a London-based NGO that campaigns on behalf of indigenous people, has sent an emergency submission to the United Nations about destruction of forest occupied by the members of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe, the last of Paraguay's uncontacted Indians. The Totobiegosode's land is being converted to cattle pasture by two Brazilian companies: Yaguarete Pora SA ...
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Final plea on Earth observation
BBC: Earth observation scientists have made a last-minute plea to Gordon Brown to put the UK's weight behind Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES. The 2bn-euro venture will build a full picture of the state of the planet from satellite and ground-based data. But despite the UK's oft-stated claim to lead the world on climate policy, it has so far been lukewarm on GMES. Three leading scientists have now sent a letter to the PM urging him to back GMES at a critical ...
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Sea surges could uproot millions in Nigeria megacity
Reuters: Millions of people in Nigeria could be displaced by rising sea levels in the next half century, as ocean surges swamp some of Africa's most expensive real estate and its poorest slums, scientists say. Africa's most populous nation, stretching from the southern fringe of the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, could come under triple attack from climate change as the desert encroaches on its northern pastures, rainfall erodes farmland in its eastern Niger Delta, and the Atlantic Ocean floods ...
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