IBAMA says that there are more control on field. Large farmers, the federal government and states say the new rules for regularization of rural properties, installed by the new Forest Code, advance.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Chariboan Joi: “Voices Flying As Maracana Parrot”, a Peruvian project
“Chariboan Joi,” means “Voices Soaring Like the Maracaná Macaw” in the Shipibo language. Our project have that name because those parrots are very boisterous and travel long distances, which is what we seek with our stories.
Citizen journalism direct from the Colombian Amazon
The department of Caquetá, in the Colombian Amazon, goes through enormous changes. Its western part, where the Amazon rainforest region moves on the slopes of the Andes Mountains, became the main focus of deforestation in Colombia in the last decade.
G1: Imazon indicates high of 467% in deforestation in the Amazon in October
Data refers to the same month in 2013; Monitoring is unofficial. Rondônia was the state with more deforestation, according to the NGO.
Hackers in Brazil come together to monitor water quality
Concerned about the current water crisis in Brazil, professionals from various disciplines have gathered at the event “Hackatona: data and sensors to measure water quality,” sponsored by the InfoAmazonia Network, data and mapping platform focused on the largest rainforest in the world.
El Tiempo: Is the lung of the world running out of air?
57 percent of the 120,933 hectares of forest that were deforested in Colombia in 2013 belong to the Amazon.
La Información: Ecuadorian President defends oil extraction in the Amazon
The president said that the activities will affect less than 200 hectares of the nearly one million of the Yasuni National Park.
BBC: Amazon deforestation linked to drought in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Researcher says that the normal flow of cool and wet air from the Amazon to southern Brazil was interrupted by the clearing and burning of forests.
InfoAmazonia participa de encontro sobre monitoramento ambiental por comunidades
O monitoramento e manejo da biodiversidade e recursos naturais por comunidades têm se tornado forma essencial de articulação da sociedade civil em prol da conservação do meio ambiente. Projetos que envolvem populações tradicionais para coletar dados acerca de transformações ambientais ou ONGs que empregam novas tecnologias para monitorar o ar e a água são alguns […]
BBC: The man who believes that South America can be drying
A report just released of Antonio Nobre based on more than 200 previous studies indicates that Amazon is losing its role of regulating the climate in South America.