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 * Brazil** borders Uruguay to the south; Argentina and Paraguay to the southwest; Bolivia and Peru to the west; Colombia to the northwest; and Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana to the north.

Spotlight on Fortaleza and Florianópolis

Current Time
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Headlines
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38595410 [|Conheça a Yandê, a primeira rádio indígena online do Brasil (Meet Yandê, the first online Indigenous radio in Brazil)] [|optimists-guide-to-the-rio-olympics] [|Proteção dos oceanos… e o Brasil nada?] [|Abandonado, Ariaú Amazon Tower vive ‘fim’ entre brigas judiciais de herdeiros e dívidas] [|Brazil supermarkets 'to avoid Amazon meat'] [|at-war-for-the-trees] [|Negócios nos parques (Business in Parks)] [|How Google Earth Is Preserving Indigenous Culture] [|Brazil’s most visited protected area]

Reports
The Brazilian Humpback Whale Institute has recently issued a bilingual (Portuguese/English) Whale Watching Guide for the State of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil, which is nevertheless relevant for the entire Western South Atlantic. Free download: @http://baleiajubarte.org.br/inc/download.php?i=2283

Slideshare
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Flickr
[|Brazil Adventure International] [|Projeto Tamar] [|Florianópolis]

Flickr Groups
[|South American Ecotourism]

Facebook
[|Ecoturismo: Brasil & Mundo] é um grupo dedicado a disseminar informações e promover o diálogo sobre as atividades de Ecoturismo enquanto gerador de emprego e renda de qualidade e indutor da conservação do patrimônio natural. Focamos nos desafios e oportunidades do Brasil, mas trazemos também a realidade internacional para conhecimento dos atores brasileiros da temática. Mais Ecoturismo = mais conservação da Natureza!

[|Instituto Semeia] [|Visit Brasil]

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Wiki
Rio de Janeiro Rio +20

Twitter
[|@brasildeovelhas] [|@RioOnWatch] [|@CatComm] [|@greencities] [|@bradleybrooks] [|@TheRioTimes] [|@rodrigocalima] [|@UNESCOBrasil] [|@psustentavel] [|@VisitBrasil] [|@agenciapublica] [|@dlerda] [|@museudoamanha] [|@amazonia_real] [|@BrazilMax] [|@mturismo] [|@USCitsBrazil] [|@EmbaixadaEUA] https://twitter.com/MichelTemer

Youtube
[|Ministerio Turismo]

Tourism Portals
[|Brazil Tourism] - [|facebook] - [|@VisitBrasil] [|Brazil, Ministry of Tourism] - [|@mturismo]

Buzzword Bingo
Amazon - Brazil - [|BRIC] - Samba

Elsewhere on the Web
http://www.oeco.org.br - http://www.oeco.org.br/blogs - https://www.facebook.com/siteoeco https://rodrigocalima.wordpress.com - [|@rodrigocalima] [] http://www.slideshare.net/Elizabethb/the-art-of-lace-in-northeast-brazil-41772330 http://amazoniareal.com.br - [|@elaizefarias] - [|@amazonia_real] http://www.monicasalmaso.mus.br

[|BrazilMax] [|Some Reasons Why Brazil Fails at Tourism] - São Paulo: Members of the foreign press corps sat down to lunch a few weeks ago with the new president of the Brazilian airline TAM. The discussion ranged far and wide, but it kept returning to one theme: why can’t Brazil realize its enormous potential in tourism?

Recommended Listening
[|Dam disaster] - Mining dam collapse at Benito Rodrigues: Brazil's slow motion environmental catastrophe

[|Brazil] - This week the 2014 World Cup kicks off in Brazil. Rear Vision looks at the largest economy in Latin America and its attempt to deal with poverty and income disparity.

Wikipedia
[|Brazil] [|Kaká] [|Brazilian_real] [|Chico Mendes] [|President_of_Brazil] [|Michel Temer] [|Botequim]

Blogs
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Government
[|Brazil, Ministry of Environment]

[|Favela Organica] Blog written by Regina Tchelly, a Brazilian woman who decided to start a cooking center in her favela [|Flavors of Brazil] []
 * Food**

Brasilia
brasilia

Curitiba
curitiba

Iguazu Falls
Cataratas do Iguacu https://twitter.com/cataratas_sa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls Cataratas won public bid in 1998 to operate 4 areas and transportation in Iguassu National Park from 1999 to 2020.

Natal
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/Natal+Brazil+BRXX0158 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal,_Rio_Grande_do_Norte

Rio
rio

São Paulo
são paulo

Environment
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Parks
Most visited protected area in Brazil is the Tijuca National Park (2.9 million visitors).

Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation http://www.icmbio.gov.br https://www.facebook.com/ICMBio https://twitter.com/ICMBio http://www.youtube.com/user/canalicmbio http://www.icmbio.gov.br/portal/o-que-fazemos/visitacao/parques-nacionais-do-brasil.html http://www.brasil.gov.br/sobre/geography/bodies/chico-mendes-institute-for-biodiversity-conservation-201cicmbio201d-1/print

Features
[|An evaluation of ecolodges in the brazilian amazon - Luciana Coelho Marques] [|The inter-relationship between nature based tourism in a community and nearby lodges in the Brazilian Amazon - Sherre Prince Nelso]n [|Comunicação Social para o Mundo: Como Levar suas Pautas para a Imprensa Interacional] [|Amazon Railway to Hell - Bill Hinchberger/BrazilMax.com] [|The Right Tact to Whale Watching - Bill Hinchberger/BrazilMax.com] [|Watching the Tourists in Brazil - Braulio Tavares/BrazilMax]

Tourism [|Brazilian Tourism (EMBRATUR)] [|Ecobrasil - Brazilian Ecotourism Association] [|Brazilian Incoming Tour Operators (BITO)] [|Blog: Brazil - South American Explorer's Club] [|Destination Brazil - Lonely Planet] [|Salvador Bahia Online] [|Trekking in Brazil - the Adventourist] [|Panrotas] [|Instituto de Hospitalidade] [|Sustainable Tourism Brazil] [|PCTS] [|Cama e Café]

Nature
[|IBAMA - Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente] [|MMA - Ministerio do Meio Ambiente] [|FUNBIO - Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade] [|Atualidades Ornitologicas] [|The Chico Mendes Sustainable Rainforest Campaign - EDF] [|Brazil Environmental Sites] [|Environmental Groups/Sustainable Development in the Amazon] [|Revista ECO21] [|Instituto Socioambiental] [|Brazil's National Agriculture Society] [|Instituto de Tecnologia Intuitiva Bio-Arquitetura] [|Amazonarium] [|IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística] [|Brasil Visto do Espaço] [|Ambiente Brasil]

Portals
[|Brazilink.org] [|Info Brazil] [|Wonders of Brazil] [|Girus] [|Brazzil]

Misc
[|Embassy of Brazil in the United States]

Pernambuco
http://www.semas.pe.gov.br/web/semas - https://twitter.com/Semas_PE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernambuco

Spotlight on Semeia
http://semeia.org.br https://www.facebook.com/InstitutoSemeia http://www.youtube.com/user/iSemeia [|@iSemeia] [|Summary in English (2011)] (PDF)

Whales
http://baleiajubarte.org.br

2014 Election
[|Brazilian_general_election,_2014] [|Election Watch: Brazil]

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