A truckload of timber leaves the Amazon, Brazil. Image by Christian Franz Tragni, copyright Demotix (18/02/2009). In the Amazon rainforest region, deforestation impacts around 30 million people and 350 indigenous and ethnic groups. Yet the Amazon, and other forests like it, are fast-becoming major casualties of civilization as growing human populations increasingly threaten these important biomes. Forests currently account for approximately one third of the Earth's land mass, and 2011 was declared International Year of Forests by the United Nations. Please contact Global Voices Portuguese Language Countries Editor Sara Moreira, if you have links, resources or story ideas from any part of the world to add to this page. What we do: Global Voices bloggers report on how citizens use the Internet and social media to make their voices heard, often translating from other languages. .inline-rss Back to Contents 2012 16 Aug – Peru: Amazon Officially Inaugurated as Nature's Wonder 25 May – Brazil: Will President Dilma Veto the Future of Forests? 10 Jun – Brazil: Deeper Media Coverage of Belo Monte Dam Needed 2011 23 Nov – Peruvian Amazon: The Challenges of a Wonder of Nature 01 Nov – Brazil: #OccupyBeloMonte Evicted from Dam Construction Site 21 Oct – Brazil: Belo Monte Dam Case Comes to Court 15 Oct – Peru: Paul McAuley, British Priest Defending the Amazon 24 Aug – Brazil: Global Action Against Belo Monte Dam in Images 20 Aug – Brazil: Construction Starts on Controversial Belo Monte Dam 05 Aug – Peru: The Amazon and the Diversion of the Huallaga and Marañón Rivers 20 Jul – Peru: Amazonian Indigenous Life Threatened By Petroleum 28 Jun – Brazil: Despite Protests, Government Insists on Belo Monte Dam 15 Jun – Brazil: The Chilling Beauty of the Green Desert 02 Jun – Brazil: After All There is a Place for Belo Monte Dam 31 May – “Shame for Brazil” Forest Defender Couple Murdered 20 May – Brazil: Future of Forests at Stake 27 Apr – Peru: Hydroelectric Projects in the Amazon Under Discussion Again 20 Mar – Ecuador: New Developments and Cyber-Activism in Chevron Case 13 Mar – Peru: The Peruvian Amazon 11 Feb – Peru: Inambari Hydroelectric Project Generates Rejection 04 Feb – Peru: New Strain of Dengue Spreads in the Amazon 25 Jan – Brazil: Belo Monte Dam returns to the spotlight 18 Jan – Ecuador: Photos of the Rainforest 2010 15 Dec – Brazil: Key player at COP 16 but bad example at home? 14 Oct – Brazil: The Xingu River is no place for Belo Monte 12 Aug – Brazil: New Forestry Code = The Right to Deforestation? 07 Jul – Peru: Government Expels Paul McAuley, Religious Environmental Activist 26 Jun – Worldwide: The oil spills that don't make the news Back to Contents 2012 23 Jun – Peru: Amazonian Indigenous Communities Protest Against Oil Pollution 16 Apr – Brazil: Homage to the Victims of the Amazon in Washington, D.C.