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 […]
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Ara: Colombia reveals its first Annual Rate of Deforestation
In its first annual report on deforestation, Colombia recorded a deforested area of 120.933 hectares of natural forest between January and December 2013. El 57% de la deforestación nacional se presentó en la región de la Amazonía, mientras que un 22% se reportó en la región andina. Respecto de la ocurrencia de minería ilegal presentan […]
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Jornalistas latino-americanos são treinados em ciência e política para a COP 20
Na cidade de Lima, Peru, começou a oficina de treinamento “Jornalismo em torno à COP 20: ciência, política e jornalismo”, dirigido à jornalistas da Colômbia, Equador, Bolívia e Peru visando proporcionar a informação mais importante relacionada à cobertura jornalística sobre as negociações em mudanças climáticas que serão realizadas nesta cidade em dezembro deste ano. O […]
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Jornalismo cidadão direto da Colômbia esquecida
O departamento de Caquetá, na Amazônia Colombiana, passa por enormes mudanças. Sua parte ocidental, região onde a floresta amazônica avança sobre as encostas das montanhas andinas, se tornou o principal foco de desmatamento da Colômbia na última década. De acordo com o sistema de alertas de desmatamento Terra-i, Caquetá é o local com a maior […]
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Hackers Unite to Create Apps and Sensors to Monitor Water Quality
Concerned with the current water crisis in Brazil, professionals from several different fields of study met at the event “Hackathon: Data and Sensors to Measure Water Quality”, promoted by a Rede InfoAmazônia team. The purpose of the two meetings, which took place in São Paulo on September 5 and 15, was to discuss alternative ways […]
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Peruvian Regional governments must report mining environmental monitoring
The Agency for Assessment and Environmental Control (OEFA) of Peru reported that the regional governments, the Directorate General of Mines, Ministry of Mines and Energy and DG and Coastguards have until Oct. 15 to report environmental monitoring of small scale and artisanal mining, for the third quarter of 2014.
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Institute of Brazilian government announces: deforestation in the Amazon is bigger than imagined
The latest PRODES data, from 2013, is already updated on InfoAmazonia As part of the Deforestation of the Legal Amazon Monitoring Project (PRODES), Brazil’s National Institute of Spacial Research (INPE) has released its updated figure of the deforestation rate in the Amazon, revealing ties between environmental policy and increased pressure on the rainforest. The PRODES […]
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Peruvian Minister of Environment wants the Amazon discussed at COP 20
por Giovanny Vera and Gustavo Faleiros Pulgar Vidal will be the president of COP 20, the UN Summit on Climate Change hosted in Lima. Foto: InfoAmazonia.org Peru‘s Minister of the Environment, Manuel Pulgar Vidal, interviewed by the InfoAmazonia.org team in Lima on the 8th, said that he hopes to sign an agreement about the REDD+ […]
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Water and Citizenship in the Amazon
Water and Citizenship go hand in hand. When sources of clean water are damaged, human health suffers along with the social and economic health of communities that depend on agriculture and fishing, among other activities. Oil spilled in the month of July in the Marañon River, in Loreto department, Peru. Leaks are on the rise […]
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ClearWater: Map highlights efforts to bring clean water to communities in Ecuador
Digital Democracy has partnered with the ClearWater Project to create a cutting edge interactive map that tells the story of indigenous communities of the Ecuadorean Amazon. Following years of oil contamination, local leaders have banded together to build rainwater catchment systems as a source of clean drinking water. The map brings together photographs, stories and […]