Cajas National Park is the main water source for Cuenca, but today is threatened by visitors who throw their trash and burn the forest.
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Estadão: Amazon deforestation advances in protected areas
Loggers perform specific actions in reserves that are not detected by satellite.
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Estadão: Legalized land still suffers deforestation
In late August of this year, IBAMA found the deforestation of 300 hectares on public lands in the middle of the buffer zone of Altamira National Forest.
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EFE: State Attorney of Brazil expressed alarm for hydroelectric boom in the Amazon
Brazilian prosecutors warned today at a meeting in Quito of the environmental and social damage in his opinion carries the current “boom” of hydroelectric projects throughout the Amazon basin, including controversial Belo Monte Dam.
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Estadão: Study registers thousand of fish species in the Madeira River basin
Research for three years in the region of the Santo Antonio Hydroelectric Power, the largest ever built in the Amazon, shows the river as the most biodiverse in the world.
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A Crítica: The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) shall affect indigenous lands of the Amazonas
Investment Observatory in the Amazonas state shows that Amazon has 37 of the 61 projects planned for the northern region.
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El Diario de Guayana: The brown-backed bearded saki vanity
The destruction of their habitat, indiscriminate hunting and commercial trapping for use as pets, are the main threats faced by this species of the Venezuelan Guayana
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Jornal Hoje: Ecological Association of the Amazon accompanies turtle nesting
The turtle nesting is a ritual that has been repeated for thousands of years, but it was seriously threatened. Only those who live in the Amazon have the privilege to follow it.
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Online platform will map investments in biodiversity in Amazon
The Ecofund is an open portal which will be launched during the congress of the Network of Environmental Funds in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Straight from North, Day 3: The challenge of legal extracting
After participating in the National Sovereignty operation, it was time to know how works the sawmill.