Imazon is collaborating with the Brazilian state of Pará to combine real time satellite imagery and advanced mapping techniques to protect the rainforest.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
PRI: Brazil is winning in the battle against climate change
A new paper in Science magazine says that since 2005, the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped 70 percent, and Brazil now leads the world in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
The Telegraph: World Cup held in detriment of Amazon rainforest
Amazon tribal chiefs highlight the environmental situation in the Brazilian rainforest and speak of their discomfort at the money being spent on the World Cup in Brazil.
Loreto: Illegal dump affects buffer zone of a National Reserve
Waste from hospitals, industrial areas and households come to this place that does not treat the waste, which affects the Nanay River, main regional provider of potable water.
Mi Putumayo: $ 30 million will be invested in Colombian Amazonia
Project called Heart of the Amazon will allocate international funds for the conservation of the Colombian Amazon.
La Hora: Biologists warn again about loss of species in Yasuni
Concern of biologists for oil exploitation in the Yasuní National Park remains, especially since it was approved the environmental license for exploitation of Tambococha and Tiputini fields.
Oil company breaks agreement, builds big roads in Yasuni rainforest
Satellite images show that Petroamazonas built a big road, at least one permanent bridge and cut off more forest than was authorized.
El Espectador: Heart of the Amazon, the plan to protect the Amazon
It is a project to protect the largest protected area of Colombia and generate sustainable development in that area.
The Guardian: Dying to save the Amazonian rainforest
An environmental campaigner is killed every week in Brazil. Journalists travel to Lábrea in the heart of the Amazon to meet the people risking their lives.
Equipment monitors the waves of Rio Negro in Manaus
The equipment was installed by a group of institutions led by the Monitoring Network Extreme Events of the Amazon to monitor the height of the waves and correlate the data with the storms.