VANCOUVER, March 3 /PRNewswire/ - Guyana Frontier Mining Corp.

By Peter Muello THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.

Dutch scientists have found the distribution of trees in the Amazonian rain forest is far from haphazard and might fill specific environmental niches.