Indigenous the new black | The Courier-Mail.
JAPAN has Shiatsu, Hawaii the Lomi Lomi, China has acupuncture and India Ayurvedic, now Australia has discovered its own indigenous spa therapies with native rosella, lilly pilly and quandong appearing on spa menus for the body.
Dreamtime is big business, especially when the dreaming is done during time out [...]

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U.S. Newswire : Releases : "World Wildlife Fund Contributes $3.3M to Support Brazilian Protected Areas in Amazon…".
WASHINGTON, May 20  — World Wildlife Fund today contributed U.S. $3.3 million to secure long-term financial sustainability for the vast system of parks and sustainable use areas now being established in the Amazon by Brazil. Today’s contribution by WWF [...]

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Scotsman.com News – Latest News – Brazil Announces Five New Nature Reserves for Amazonia.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced the creation of five new nature reserves in the Amazon region during a ceremony today to commemorate International Biodiversity Day.
The new reserves cover 261,252 hectares (645,554 acres). Four of the reserves are in coastal [...]

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