A delegation of senators and deputies from Brazil will travel to Ecuador to observe environmental damage.
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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.
Extraordinary Amazon
Number of species discovered by scientists between 2010 and 2013 comprising 258 plants, 84 fishes, 58 amphibians, 22 reptiles, 18 birds and a mammal.
Peru: The database contains 52 Amazonian nations and 4 Andeans
Read an interview with Vice Minister of Interculturality of Peru
Extent of Peruvian Amazon lost to illegal goldmines mapped for first time
Researchers have recorded a 400% increase in the area of Madre de Dios taken over by small mines from 1999 to 2012
Illicit crops and deforestation, main problems of the Amazon
Caquetá, Guaviare and Putumayo are the departments where more forests have been lost.
Purring monkey and vegetarian piranha among 400 new Amazon species
Four years of scientific expeditions have found previously unknown animals and plants in world’s largest tropical rainforest
Global warming forecast for Amazon rain forest: Dry and dying
The Amazon rain forest’s dry season lasts three weeks longer than it did 30 years ago, and the likely culprit is global warming.
Corruption in Peru Aids Cutting of Rain Forest
With vast territory to cover, government authorities are working hard to fight the illegal timber trade that often goes on deep in the jungle.
Discovery of Chiribiquete natural park
Three of the explorers who crossed the forest and the tepuis of this park, reconstruct how they lived the fantastic journey to discover one of the most unexplored places on earth
The risks of paving 400 km in the Amazon
In environmental terms, the BR-319 Route would have the effect of a bomb, researcher said.