#LaRutaDelOro Research in Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia shows how the expansion of illegal gold mining is not only degrading part of the reserve of biodiversity in the Amazon, but drastically changing the lives of its inhabitants.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Mega-dams doing drastic harm to tropical biodiversity: study
Researchers with the University of East Anglia say the full extent of impacts to biodiversity of large hydroelectric dams in lowland tropical forest regions have been “severely overlooked”.
Peruvian authorities archived more than 1,000 environmental pollution reports
Report of investigation site CONVOCA uncovered over a thousand cases of presumed environmental violations during the governments of Toledo, Garcia and Humala (between 2002 and 2013) and were “ignored despite the seriousness of the evidence”.
Fieldwork to investigate the Madeira River hydroelectrics in Brazil is stopped
The experts, all renowned specialists, should analyze and collect data from the restudy of the environmental impact of dams in the region
Protected areas of the Amazon absorbs 11 times more carbon
Research shows the importance of reserves and indigenous lands compared to unprotected areas, at a time when climate change is already fact in the region.
Imazon: Science engaged in preserving the Amazon
Imazon turns 25 this month. NGO is distinguished by scientific production and the independent monitoring of deforestation in the region.
Traces of oil that Peruvian governments tried to hide
Peruvian investigative journalists accessed hydrocarbons environmental monitoring reports hitherto unknown that the last three governments ignored despite the seriousness of the evidence.
Brazilian government expels communities from the jungle that more preserve it
Social researcher denounces acts of violence practiced by Ibama and ICMBio against bordering the Pará, populations that have a balanced relationship with the environment.
After the flood, cities were unprepared to attend the disaster
Municipalities of the seven municipalities most affected by historic flooding did not have services to act in reducing the risk of natural disaster and carry out mitigation actions, responses and recovery of social and economic damage of the population in 2014.
Mato Grosso state is the leader in Brazilian ranking of deforestation in Legal Amazon
From August 2014 to June 2015 were registered 943 square kilometers of deforestation, up 149% compared to the same period last year (August 2013 to June 2014), when 378 square kilometers of forest were cut down.