Amazon's Pink Dolphins Threatened by End of Fishing Ban
Orinoco river basins, Silva fears the Amazon dolphins could disappear like the Yangtze river dolphin did in China in 2006, following years of overfishing and pollution."We don't want the dolphins to become just a legend of Amazonia," Silva said. (Reporting by Bruno Kelly Writing by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Tom Brown
Rousseff to Fight to Keep Subsalt Oil Production Sharing
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Thursday she will "fight to the end" to maintain Brazil's oil production-sharing regime in its offshore Subsalt Polygon area. In the wake of a corruption scandal, Petroleo Brasileiro SA's large debt and weak financial position limit its ability to meet a requirement it finance a minimum 30 percent of all new subsalt projects and run them as formal operator, reducing the chance the giant resource will be developed, critics say. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle)
Reports: Brazilian Tycoon Batista Investigated For Financial Crimes
while encouraging investors to buy more stock in his companies at a time when he sold shares of OGX and OSX. Among other probes, the regulator will look into whether Batista used his Twitter account to manipulate OGX share prices while hiding the company's problems. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Leslie Adler, Reuters)