Amazon militarized in wake of assassination

In the global outcry over the slaying of US nun Dorothy Stang, a local crusader for the Amazon rainforest and its threatened peasants and Indians, Brazil’s President Luis Inacio da Silva signed a decree Feb. 17 creating two vast protected… Read moreAmazon militarized in wake of assassination

Forest defender assassinated in Amazon

In a case being compared to that of Chico Mendes, the Amazon defender killed in 1988, US missionary Sister Dorothy Stang was shot dead by unknown assailants at a remote jungle settlement near Anapu in the Brazilian state of Para… Read moreForest defender assassinated in Amazon