Bolivia has approved a land use law that aims to boost food security and slow deforestation in a region which is wracked by illegal forest clearing.
Monthly Archives: January 2013
ABC: Deforestation accelerates again in the Amazon
Regulatory changes, the high global prices of agricultural exports and local initiatives that arise around hydroelectric plants explain the growth.
Canal Plus: Amazon Last Call: The Zoe Tribe
This video shows the lifestyle of this Amazonian tribe, which includes a collectivist economic system that respects the environment.
Riverside students are given incentives to take care of the garbage
Project pays devolution of packaging and encourages riparian communities of the Amazon to properly allocate solid waste.
Diário do Nordeste: Indigenous “rent” lots for deforestation
Amazonian indigenous have alloted lands and “rented” them to loggers to fell and remove timber illegally-and with low prices.
BBC: The birds of the country with more birds in the world
With the discovery of eight new species in 2012, Colombia has been confirmed as the country with the greatest diversity of birds on the planet. But some are threatened by extinction.
Forest Service will map Brazilian forests until 2016
With financing from BNDES, technicians will map in detail the country’s forests. The work will emphasize the quality of the soil and existing species.
Tapir: lonely and misunderstood genius
Unintelligent fame is pure evil. Ignoring critics, the honoree of the week swims calmly along the river.
BBC: Life in the middle of the Amazon
BBC visited three communities in the Bolivian Amazon is home to the last members of an indigenous community in Bolivia. Get to know them and know what their days.
Illegally logged trees to start calling for help
The Brazilian government has begun fixing trees with a wireless device, known as Invisible Tracck, which will allow trees to contact authorities after being felled and moved.