The director of Andes Amazon Fund analyzes and highlights the successes and failures of the government is ending and notes with concern the proposals of the government that is about to begin.[:]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Brazilian indigenous leader arrested defending indigenous health
The leader was arbitrarily arrested by the Federal Police in peaceful demonstration in defense of the health of Lower Tapajós River indigenous.[:]
Environmental regulation in Brazil: Crime and land traffic with CAR
Designed to be an effective environmental regulation instrument, the Rural Environmental Registry in Brazil is used by squatters and gangs who profit from illegal logging,[:]
Brazil: Ibama denies licensing São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam
Recommendations by the Federal Public Ministry, the indigenous agency (FUNAI) and technicians of the environmental agency paralyze the construction of the hydroelectric powerplant project planned for the Tapajós river. [:]
Matt Hansen: know the geographer that monitors global deforestation
The Global Forest Change project, developed by Matthew Hansen of the University of Maryland, monitors forests using algorithms to distinguish changes in forest cover using satellite images.
Peru: United Cacao project is in territory classified as forest land
According to studies by the Ministry of Agriculture, most United Cacao deforestation occurred in soils suitable for forestry, which is not permitted.[:]
Research shows that Colombian Amazon is contaminated by mercury
Research has determined that the mercury level exceeds up to 87 times the level permitted by the Colombian State.[:]
With increase of drought, fires advance in Brazil
The number of fires, as always, rises this season. InfoAmazonia shows a map with the last count made by VIIRS satellite sensor, which has higher resolution and revealed more than 6,000 hotspots on 26 July.[:]