A new report which focused on the Amazon states of Mato Grosso and Pará, where the researchers interviewed ranchers and meat processors − finds the cost of raising beef cattle is prompting many ranchers to consider switching to crops such as palm oil.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Brazil unlikely to keep reducing deforestation without new incentives
Cattle ranchers that drive the vast majority of forest clearing in the Brazilian Amazon are unlikely to be held at bay indefinitely unless they are afforded new incentives for keeping trees standing, argues new analysis published by an economic research group.
Las2orillas: Territory and resistance Inga in Caquetá region, Colombia
800 people resist the disappearances of their culture, language and territory
Institute of Brazilian government announces: deforestation in the Amazon is bigger than imagined
The latest PRODES data, from 2013, is already updated on InfoAmazonia As part of the Deforestation of the Legal Amazon Monitoring Project (PRODES), Brazil’s National Institute of Spacial Research (INPE) has released its updated figure of the deforestation rate in the Amazon, revealing ties between environmental policy and increased pressure on the rainforest. The PRODES […]
PUINAMUDT: Residents of Cuninico after spill say the fishing is over
“The main source of income we had for the population and for our food, we have not it, that is fishing”, “everything has been done with this spill,” said a resident.
Business Journal: Duke University leads $4.4M study in the Amazon forest
One of the major goals of the project is to simply better understand the forest. It includes fieldwork, laboratory studies and modeling research by undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral scientists.
ARA: Peru has lost more than 7 million hectares of forest from deforestation
The loss would have been due to deforestation generated mainly by the change in land use, agriculture and illegal mining. Only in a year, the country loses an average of 110 thousand hectares.
Extractivists from Unini Reserve, in Brazil, produced a record chestnut safra
The families of the reserve produced an unprecedented crop of 15 tons of raw nuts, moving near $ 47.000 into the local economy. The annual average was 11 tons of nuts.
Smithsonian: The lost or uncontacted tribes of the Amazon
Often described as “uncontacted,” isolated groups living deep in the South American forest resist the ways of the modern world—at least for now.
La República: Vice-president of Ucayali region, in Peru, legalize illegal timber
This year the Supervisory Agency for Forest Resources ordered the closing of its 4 concessions when he proved the illegal origin of more than 4 thousand cubic meters of wood.