The expansion of agriculture is the main cause of deforestation. Protected areas and indigenous territories suffer deforestation.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Brazilian bank approves $10.8 billion loan for controversial Amazon rainforest dam
Brazil’s National Development Bank announced it has approved a $10.8 billion loan to the consortium that is building the Belo Monte dam.
25% of territories of indigenous communities in the Andean Amazon of overlapping with lots of hydrocarbons
U.S. Department of Interior has this statement.
Terra: The indigenous chief Raoni “is happy” to advocate for the Amazon in France
Brazilian indigenous chief advocated for the cause of the Amazon and the indigenous peoples in the presidential Elysee Palace in France.
BBC: How illegal logging in Brazil’s Amazon turns ‘legal’
Despite tougher regulations, unscrupulous loggers are still finding ways to get timber out of the jungle and selling it as legally felled wood, locals say.
Invasions in indigenous lands threaten sustainable fisheries project
Incursions of fishing boats attracted by increasing numbers of fish threatens pirarucú management of Paumari indigenous in Purus River.
EBC: Incra creates sustainability program for settlements in the Amazon
The National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform of Brazil created the Green Settlements, to restrain illegal deforestation in areas of land reform in the Amazon.
Bolivia.com: TIPNIS, Amboró and Carrasco are the protected areas most affected by deforestation
Deforestation in the national protected areas in Bolivia caused a loss of 49,884 hectares of forest between 2000 and 2010, reveals a study by Friends of Nature Foundation
Deforestation: historical fall and retention of numbers in October
Just over the COP18, the Ministry of Environment of Brazil reports the lowest rate in the history of the Amazonbut retains publication of possible bad data.
Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million
The Yasuni-ITT Initiative has raised 8 percent of the total amount needed to fully fund the idea.