A San-Francisco based start-up is now eyeing expansion from the Congo Basin to the Amazon where it hopes to help an indigenous rainforest tribe fight illegal logging.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Bloomberg View: It takes a rancher to save a rainforest
This tropical turnaround tale is about smart policy and science allied with resourceful ranchers trying to make ends meet on one of the planet’s most hostile landscapes.
Targeted enforcement saved a Massachusetts-worth of Amazon rainforest in 3 years
The program, which imposes stiff penalties on municipalities that have excessively high deforestation rates, effectively avoided 1.23 billion tons of carbon emissions during the period.
Brazil could meet all its food demand by 2040 without cutting down another tree
Better utilization of its vast areas of pasturelands could enable Brazil to dramatically boost agricultural production without the need to clear another hectare of Amazon rainforest, cerrado, or Atlantic forest, argues a new study published in the journal Global Environmental Change.
Trust.org: To cut carbon emissions, give communities rights to forest land
Communities are far more likely to stop trees being cut down than governments or business, found research issued by the World Resources Institute (WRI).
Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining investment
The new law has environmentalists not only concerned about its impact on the country but also that the measures will undermine progress at the up-coming UN Climate Summit in December, which Peru is hosting.
Petroperú denounced for hiring minors to clean the oil spill in Loreto
Panorama presented a report showing the impacts of this spill and also denounced Petroperú for hiring minors to clean up the remnants of oil in the affected area without proper protection.
New Stanford Model Can Reveal Globalization’s Effects On The Amazon
Stanford has unveiled new software that will be able to understand how outside influences can affect the sustainability of Indigenous people in the Amazon.
Roads through the rainforest: an overview of South America’s ‘arc of deforestation’
Roads, by their very nature, are indiscriminate pathways, granting access for travel and trade along with deforestation and other forms of environmental degradation.
Loreto: dump is affecting Peru’s Allpahuayo Mishana national reserve
The “Thirty” Landfill located at kilometer 30.5 of the road Iquitos – Nauta (Loreto) has operated for seven years at that spot, affecting the buffer zone of the Allpahuayo Mishana national reserve.