Archive for April, 2011

A note on a local blog (Parque Nacional do Iguaçu: menos onças e mais transgênicos) reports on a recent survey of the puma population inside the Iguazu National Park. Scientists aren’t sure at all but estimate the number of individuals left might range between 6 and 12. On the verge of disappearing. At the same [...]

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The figures for foreign tourism in Brazil in 2010 are just out (Veja dados detalhados dos turistas estrangeiros no País). The top ten national groups are as follows: Argentina – 1,400,000 (27.12% of the total of foreign tourists that visited Brazil in 2010) United States – 641,000 (12.43%) Italy – 245,500 (4.76%) Uruguay – 228,500 [...]

According to O Globo newspaper (Parque: decreto preserva praias mais cobiçadas de Búzios), the governor of Rio de Janeiro has just passed a decree preventing developers from exploring whatever’s left (and it’s not much) of Búzios original vegetation. A new natural park, the Parque Estadual da Costa do Sol (Pecs), will be created encompassing bits [...]

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