Low graphics   |   Mobile      Login   |   About us      
Wed, 3 Jun 03:13:03 GMT17

 
[-] Text [+] | Subscribe |  Email  |  Print  | XML RSS
A patch of devastated forest is seen at the Bom Futuro (Good Future) National Forest Reservation
19 May 2009
Source: Reuters
 
A patch of devastated forest is seen at the Bom Futuro (Good Future) National Forest Reservation, some 200km (124 miles) from Porto Velho, northern Brazil, May 19, 2009. Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc says the ministry has started an operation against illegal cattle ranchers and wood traders responsible for the reservation's deforestation. REUTERS/Roberto Jayme (BRAZIL POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
REUTERS/STRINGER/BRAZIL


AlertNet news is provided by

Related articles

Breaking stories
 Americas Brazil finds Air France wreckage, all feared dead

Americas World Bank approves $121 mln Haiti lending plan

AlertNet insight
 Americas Brazil floods leave hundreds of thousands homeless

Aid agency news feed
 Americas Extra-ordinary volunteering: young people experience life in the developing world

Blogs
 Americas Fake champagne and life-saving drugs

Maps
 Americas MAP: Brazil flood map of the Rio Parnaiba of 2008/04/12, 2008/05/01 and 2009/05/18 in the eastern Maranhao/Piaui Region (satellite image)


Background information

Facts & figures
Brazil

Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T211053Z_01_SIN656_RTRIDSP_2_FRANCE-PLANE_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/SIN656.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T210517Z_01_SIN655_RTRIDSP_2_FRANCE-PLANE_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/SIN655.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T210418Z_01_SIN654_RTRIDSP_2_FRANCE-PLANE_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/SIN654.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T210107Z_01_SIN653_RTRIDSP_2_FRANCE-PLANE_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/SIN653.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T205842Z_01_SIN652_RTRIDSP_2_FRANCE-PLANE_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/SIN652.htm

In this photo released on June 2, 2009 by the French Defense Ministry, pilots fly a Breguet Atlantique on a search mission. Wreckage spotted in the Atlantic Ocean is "without a ...


More pictures | Galleries


URL: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/BSB05.htm

For our full disclaimer and copyright information please visit http://www.alertnet.org