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Amazon Association Named Environmentalist of the Year 2009 in Copenhagen

Posted by: Robert Bortner in Untagged on Dec 31, 2009

On December 11, 2009, CEN partner organization Amazon Association was named Environmentalist of the Year 2009.at the Copenhagen Conference as result of it's role in preventing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, particularly surrounding the community of Xixuau. The Association played a key role in this year's establishment of the Extractive Reserve Baixo Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi, which protects thousands of hectors from mining and havesting of trees.

The work of the Amazon Association and the people of the Xixuau prove that a standing forest can worth more than a dead one and that development does not necessarily have to mean the senseless use of natural resources. The model has been created and now we need to expand and replicate it.

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Amazon Association Named Environmentalist of the Year 2009 in Copenhagen

Posted by: Robert Bortner in Untagged on Dec 31, 2009

On December 11, 2009, CEN partner organization Amazon Association was named Environmentalist of the Year 2009.at the Copenhagen Conference as result of it's role in preventing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, particularly surrounding the community of Xixuau. The Association played a key role in this year's establishment of the Extractive Reserve Baixo Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi, which protects thousands of hectors from mining and havesting of trees.

The work of the Amazon Association and the people of the Xixuau prove that a standing forest can worth more than a dead one and that development does not necessarily have to mean the senseless use of natural resources. The model has been created and now we need to expand and replicate it.

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New Video: Video: CEN and Couro Ecologico - Preserving a Way of Life in the Amazon

Posted by: Robert Bortner in Untagged on Dec 9, 2009

This 5 min video entitled CEN and Couro Ecologico - Preserving a Way of Life in the Amazon discusses a little about what CEN is doing to preserve culture and increase incomes through a modern adaptation of a traditional livelihood. Watch it.

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The sun comes out in Brasilia

Posted by: Robert Bortner in Untagged on Dec 3, 2009

2009-12-03

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CEN Provides Tools for Communities They Serve But Doesn't Drive Their Agenda

Posted by: Robert Bortner in Untagged on Nov 17, 2009

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Angela meeting with cCLEAR participants

CEN tries very hard not to drive the agenda of others but rather to give them the tools so they can meet changes on their own terms. A good example would be something I heard from a leader in one of the communities. He said, he knows their way of life is changing, but they don't want to just become a copy of what they see in the cities. They want to change on their own terms.

By contrast, in a community across the river, they have reacted to the opportunities provided by the electricity that just arrived there, by attempting to duplicate what they've seen in cities. In the process, I might add, they've destroyed a lot of social fabric, but that's another story.

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Amazon Association Named Environmentalist of the Year 2009 in Copenhagen

Amazon Association Named Environmentalist of the Year 2009 in Copenhagen

New Video: Video: CEN and Couro Ecologico - Preserving a Way of Life in the Amazon

The sun comes out in Brasilia

CEN Provides Tools for Communities They Serve But Doesn't Drive Their Agenda