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	Definition of Jurua - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	www.webster.com /dictionary/Jurua (43 words)

	Brazil Leaf - Gifts From The Earth - Health and Skin Care Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		JURUA cellulite Soap is hand made following a traditional method with no chemicals nor artificial elements.
		Jurua is famous for its unique traditional method with no chemicals nor artificial elements.It is good for pinple, infections and eruptions.
		Jurua is famous for its unique traditional method with no chemicals nor artificial elements.
	www.brazilleaf.com (921 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Juruá-Purus moist forests (NT0133)
		It covers the interfluves between the westermost Amazon River, crossing the basins of the Jutaí, Jurua, Tefé, and Tapauá Rivers east to the Purus River.
		The southwestern limit is before the lowest elevations of the Carauari Arch, an ancient zone of uplift, excluding the upper portions of the Juruá and Purus Rivers.
		The Jurua River Basin seems to be the western limit to the natural occurrence of Bertholletia excelsa, the Brazil nut tree.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0133_full.html (1199 words)

	23. Progress towards RIL adoption in Brazil and Bolivia: driving forces and implementation successes - Geoffrey M. ...
		Jurua Maderias, which has a mill and owns 40 000 ha is also receiving technical assistance from FFT, the Center for International Forestry Research and EMBRAPA.
		For example, in the cases of CIKEL, Gethal, Jurua and Mil Madeira, the adoption of RIL was linked to an interest in obtaining certification.
		As of June 2001, CIKEL and Jurua Madeiras (located in the eastern Amazon) are also certified.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/AC805E/ac805e0p.htm (10939 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The creation of the Alta Jurua Extractive Reserve: Conflicts and alternatives for conservation - Brazil.
		Of the families living in the Alto Jurua Extractive Reserve, 75% are rubber tappers.
		This study describes the conflicts that surrounded the creation of the Reserve and the steps followed to resolve them.
	forestry.lib.umn.edu /bib/trps/dat/03/The%20creation%20of%20the%20Alta%20Jurua%20Extractive%20Reserve:%20Conflicts%20and (68 words)

	[No title]
		Sin embargo, esto fue sólo el inicio de una aventura en canoa hacia el norte de Acre, viajando río arriba por el Rio Jurua para visitar una parcela próxima de Restauracao, cerca de la frontera con Perú.
		Con el río a peligrosos bajos niveles de agua, las canoas frecuentemente fueron empujadas a través de los bancos de arenas y sobre las rocas.
		Los datos tomados en este viaje ayudarán a llenar un importante vacío en la red RAINFOR entre las parcelas del norte y sur de Perú.
	www.geog.leeds.ac.uk /projects/rainfor/fieldworkesp.html (1821 words)

	FishNet Explore '97 - Heiko Bleher Lecture on Rio Jurua (Slide 01) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		FishNet Explore '97 - Heiko Bleher Lecture on Rio Jurua (Slide 01)
		Jurua River - It is the most winding river on earth.
		Some of it can be seen from this photo.
	www.petsforum.com /FNExplore1997/Lecture/Slide01.htm (32 words)

	Journey Through Two Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is the story of an adventure of two men down the Jurua River in South America, one of the least explored tributaries of the mighty Amazon River!
		From the plains of Peru to the fabled Machu Picchu, to the origin of the Jurua high in the Andes, two adventurers from South Africa, Johan Dempers and Joe Brooks, braved the hazards of the river, insects, animals, the jungle, hostile Indian tribes, drug runners, illegal loggers and much, much more to complete their mission.
		On this website you will find out about Johan and Joe, read some of the wealth of press coverage they received, and, most importantly, be able to register for news on the forthcoming book on their adventures.
	www.riverland.co.za (135 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news SA men captured by Indians in Amazon
		In what sounds like a Tintin adventure, two South African photographers exploring a tributary of the Amazon River have been captured by Indians and rescued by Brazilian police.
		Speaking to Sapa by telephone on Sunday, Johan Dempers said he and Joe Brooks — aerial and wildlife photographers respectively — were on a sponsored expedition to photograph the Jurua River, a little known tributary of the Amazon.
		Determined to do no harm to the environment, they were travelling in a canoe that they paddled themselves.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/155681.htm (498 words)

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		However, this was just the prelude to an epic adventure by canoe in northern Acre, travelling up the headwaters of the Rio Jurua, to visit a plot near Restauracao, close to the Peruvian border.
		Everyone ended up in the river at some point, often helped in by the rest of the team.
		Before the long trip back to Cruzeiro do Sul, the team sampled a plot close to the town Thamaturgo, on the banks of the Rio Jurua.
	www.geog.leeds.ac.uk /projects/rainfor/fieldwork.html (1822 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The experience of the Alto Jurua Extractive Reserve with vegetal leather: Engaging forest product markets for the survival of ecosystems and cultures.
		Local heritage in the changing tropics: Innovative strategies for natural resource management and control.
		"The Alto Jurua Extractive Reserve, in western Amazonia, is beginning to produce vegetal leather, a value-added rubber product used in the manufacture of shoes.
	forestry.lib.umn.edu /bib/trps/dat/07/The%20experience%20of%20the%20Alto%20Jurua%20Extractive%20Reserve%20with%20vegetal (103 words)

	Urucu and Jurua Gas Fields - Amazon Watch
		Urucu and Jurua Gas Fields - Amazon Watch
		Home : In the Amazon : Brazil : Urucu and Jurua Gas Fields
		U.S. Federal Employees: Donate to Amazon Watch through the Combined Federal Campaign!
	www.amazonwatch.org /amazon/BR/urucu (316 words)

	APFT Pilot report - English - B - UNCONTACTED ETHNIC GROUPS
		1) Rio Breu, headwaters of the Upper Jurua
		Struggling is part of their traditions : reciprocal hostile contacts with the Kampa (whom they plunder), and peaceful ones with the Kulina; they plunder the loggers'encampments.
		Seems to be a group distinct from no. XXXVII.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Sonja/RF/Ukpr/Report34.htm (981 words)

	SPACE.com -- Brazil Unveils Satellite's First Image (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology has released the first image acquired by its CBERS-1 satellite, launched October 14.
		The Wide Field camera image shows a 186-by-186 mile (300-by-300 kilometer) swath of jungle in the state of Amazonas in northwestern Brazil, including portions of the Rio Jurua, a tributary of the Amazon.
		The CBERS-1 satellite - thats China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite - is the first of two remote-sensing probes the countries have planned.
	www.space.com /science/planetearth/brazil_cbers_991029.html (347 words)

	Traveling Down the Amazon River
		This is the story of how two adventures traveled down the Jurua River in South America, one of the least explored tributaries of the mighty Amazon River!
		From the plains of Peru to the fabled Machu Picchu, to the origin of the Jurua high in the Andes, two adventurers from South Africa, Johan Dempers and Joe Brooks, braved the hazards of the river, insects, animals, the jungle, hostile Indian tribes, drug runners, illegal loggers and much more to complete their mission.
		My Amazon adventure started in Lima, Peru where I went over the Andes Mountains by bus and train.
	www.motivation-tools.com /adventures/amazon_river.htm (2884 words)

	Journey Through Two Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		We know that this is our last chance, for long time, to get to Sawawo.
		Faces with eastern traits, painted in red dye drawn from seeds of local plants.
		The village lies on the border with Brazil and on the banks of the Amonea River, a tributary of the Jurua.
	www.riverland.co.za /book.htm (4183 words)

	FishNet Explore '97
		We probably can even order a few cold ones as we sit before the computer.
		Today we took a "day" trip to do some collection about 60 kilometers out of Eirunipe in a flwater tributary of the Jurua river system.
		We went by large boat to the mouth of a small stream and then Paola, Heiko and a guide went up in a dugout to collect.
	www.petsforum.com /FNExplore1997/Diary97.htm (5167 words)

	246 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In January last, the Malaysian company WTK bought out a local company - Amaplac for US $7 million.
		This company also purchased an area of 300 thousand hectares near the Jurua River in eastern Amazonia for approximately US $2.4 million.
		A Chinese timber company - the Tianjin Fortune Timber bought out the local Compensa company.
	www.sejup.org /246.htm (3347 words)

	Brazil - Kay's AS & A2 Geography
		Country and/or topic based 'lens' allows you to link to news stories elsewhere (eg NY Times, Amnesty Int, Info Brazil).
		A 12-page report, available as an acrobat pdf download, examines plans to construct two new pipelines to expand oil and gas production from the Urucu and Jurua gas fields in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon (Aug 2001).
		Núcleo de Estudo Agrários e Desenvolvimento Rural - has an English version of the site, although not every page and link comes up in English.
	www.geography.btinternet.co.uk /brazil.htm (1478 words)

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