Just entered into force a ban on fishing and marketing of piracatinga ( Calophysus macropterus </ em>) to contain the indiscriminate killing of dolphins and caimans, and fishermen in the state of Amazonas began to articulate to reduce the moratorium
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Is going down the Amazon lifeguards released by the Colombian government?
In August 2012 the Minister of Environment launched a resolution which stated that it could not subtract any area of the Amazon classified as Forest Reserve for mining, until the ministry did zoning of the territory. Today things are changing.
Investments for preserving the Amazon descended in Brazilian government
Federal spending in control of deforestation and preservation of the Amazon were 3.6 times lower in the first Dilma Rousseff’s mandate (2011-2014) compared to paid in the second government of Lula da Silva (2007-2010)
The three Brazilian municipalities with more deforestation alerts in February
Ranking of three municipalities with more deforestation alerts: Porto dos Gauchos, in Mato Grosso; and Vitória do Xingu and Itaituba, in Pará.
The Guardian: Colombian tribe scores ‘historic’ victory versus Big Gas
State company Ecopetrol pulls out of drilling site in territories belonging to the indigenous U’wa people.
Stories about routes of illegal gold in the Andean Amazon
OjoPúblico and the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA, in Spanish) started distributing “Roads of Gold” (#Rutasdeloro): stories about illegal mining in the Amazon in five countries in the region: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru .
Fantástico: ‘Amazonia PLC’: Forest occupies 61% of the Brazilian territory
The Amazon rainforest has the largest forest biomass on the planet and the largest concentration of biodiversity of Earth. There coexist several populations living with nature.
Infoamazonia updated map of official warnings of deforestation in Brazil
The Infoamazonia updated map of deforestation alerts Deter system, of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). With the new data, the map now includes the deforestation polygons detected by October 2014.
Halloween in the Amazon: baby bird dresses up like killer caterpillar
Also meet the cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra), an ash-colored, Amazonian bird that looks rather hum-drum compared to many other birds found in the region.
Endangered forests shrink due to increased demand for soy
In order to track trade routes from specific production regions to specific consumer markets, project have developed a prediction algorithm they call the SEI-PCS model, which stands for Spatially Explicit Information on Production to Consumption Systems.