The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has accelerated rapidly in the past two months, underscoring the shortcomings of the government’s environmental policies.
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This is the layer of news links submitted by the public and journalists who are concerned with mapping the main issues of the Amazon rainforest. See the link bellow to also send us weblinks.Esta é a camada de notícias enviadas pelos leitores e jornalistas que colaboram com o mapeamento dos principais temas da floresta amazônica. Use o link abaixo para enviar matérias.Esta es la capa de noticias enviadas por lectores y periodistas que colaboran con el mapeo de los principales temas del bosque amazónico. Use el link de abajo para enviar noticias.
Servindi: Judicial sentence ordersto consult Amazon Hydroway Project in Peru
Judge ordered the Ministry of Transport and Communications suspend Amazon Hydroway project to conduct a prior consultation with the native communities of the Maranon River.
Andina: Court orders company to paralyze depredation of forests in Ucayali
In Peru, the Ucayali Court ordered the immediate suspension of contaminants, extractive and predatory activities that a company makes in Nueva Requena and Curimana.
La Estrella de Panamá: The largest program to monitor forests is in Colombia
The biggest observation network of Amazon forests will be established in Colombia. The initiative seeks to halt deforestation and promote sustainable development of the Amazon on a post-conflict scenario.
The Guardian: Activists use GPS to track illegal loggers in Brazil’s rainforest
Covert GPS surveillance of timber trucks by Amazon campaigners has revealed how loggers are defeating attempts to halt deforestation in the world’s greatest rainforest.
The Guardian: Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru’s forest
State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
Climate News Network: Croppers pose new threat to Amazon rainforest
A new report which focused on the Amazon states of Mato Grosso and Pará, where the researchers interviewed ranchers and meat processors − finds the cost of raising beef cattle is prompting many ranchers to consider switching to crops such as palm oil.
PUINAMUDT: Residents of Cuninico after spill say the fishing is over
“The main source of income we had for the population and for our food, we have not it, that is fishing”, “everything has been done with this spill,” said a resident.
Business Journal: Duke University leads $4.4M study in the Amazon forest
One of the major goals of the project is to simply better understand the forest. It includes fieldwork, laboratory studies and modeling research by undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral scientists.
ARA: Peru has lost more than 7 million hectares of forest from deforestation
The loss would have been due to deforestation generated mainly by the change in land use, agriculture and illegal mining. Only in a year, the country loses an average of 110 thousand hectares.