Eventually, the current contingent of about 1, 000 federal police along Brazil's Amazonian borders will be tripled.
The biggest so far is Hildebrando Pascoal, a deputy for the Amazonian state of Acre.
In 1996 it ruled that Amazonian landowners could log only 20% of their holdings, instead of 50%.
To take up the slack, Brazilian farmers are clearing more of the Amazonian rain forest to plant soybeans.
Not reflected in the numbers: Vale is building a huge dam to flood about 40, 000 acres of Amazonian rainforest.
It's perfect timing perhaps for the launch of a fashion range that celebrates an all-American, albeit originally Amazonian, hero.
In the Amazonian jungle he could not squeeze it between the trees.
Another stunner about a potential 40% decline in the Amazonian rainforest "appears to have absolutely no scientific basis at all, " according to Roger Pielke, Jr.
But the government is still discussing how to enforce it: the trouble is that Brazil still lacks the means to monitor its Amazonian air space.
Among the worst incidents of the past few days, at least three prisoners were murdered in a jail siege in the Amazonian city of Porto Velho.
As the story goes, Wonder Woman was an Amazonian princess who left her home on Paradise Island to fight the "Axis powers" in the world of man.
Some of the recent spending in South America involves retooling armies that used to repress their own populations for new roles, such as peacekeeping or Amazonian surveillance.
Unbeknownst to many, there is now a high stakes legal battle taking place between the Chevron Oil Company and the residents of Ecuador's Amazonian area called Lago Agrio.
Amazonian soya farmers need it to guarantee them decent rainfall.
More than 750 land activists are thought to have been killed in the Amazonian state of Para in the last three decades, but only nine killers have been convicted.
The plot is incomprehensible gibberish about a crystal skull, the lost Amazonian city of Akator, and a brain-fried archeologist named Ox (John Hurt, who is anything but an ox).
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The Kindle power case is interesting too, not only does the it promise to double your Amazonian slab's battery life, but it also relocates the device's power button to the front.
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Justices attempted to break the argument down to an everyday level by discussing things like chocolate chip cookies, baseball bats and Amazonian jungle plants in attempts to understand the complicated issues.
For example, the Amazon pupunha-a is a fruit that can yield twice as much starch as Iowa corn, and the Amazonian babassu palm gives the world's highest yield of vegetable oil.
These will cover confidence-building, Amazonian trade and border integration.
In Brazil, forced labourers clear Amazonian jungle at gunpoint.
Even though Amazon had portrayed the encroachment of local sales taxes as a death knell, it appears that it has actually presented them with an opportunity to become even more Amazonian: more locations.
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Patton Boggs joined the lawsuit by Ecuadorean villagers suing Chevron over toxic drilling waste in the Amazonian jungle last year, but has been stymied in efforts to drag the global oil giant to the bargaining table to settle.
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Writing in Evolution and Human Behaviour Victoria Reyes-Garcia, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and her colleagues describe a study they carried out on the Tsimane', a group of Amerindians who live in Bolivia's slice of the Amazonian rainforest.
Imagine barreling through the Amazonian rainforest with machetes flailing from the windows of your off-road rig, and just as you're about to kick the vehicle into low gear, you pause to consider the impact of your vehicle's exhaust (among other things) on the delicate ecosystem around.
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The legal battle between Chevron and lawyers representing Amazonian villagers in Ecuador is getting as dirty as the oil-soaked jungle at the center of the dispute, with Chevron winning its request to depose plaintiff attorney Steven Donziger over his possible involvement in getting criminal charges reinstated against two Chevron attorneys.
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Furthermore, the previous week, at the occasion of the meeting of Health Ministers of UNASUR hosted by Uruguay, Dr Chiriboga requested an extraordinary meeting of the council of Health Ministers to be held in Quito in early 2012 to sign and launch a regional action plan to fight rabies in the Amazonian region.
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