Reconcile the urgent need to reduce poverty and preserve the rainforest is certainly the biggest challenge for the promotion of development in the Brazilian Amazon.
Tag: Acre
WWF: Bolivia and Acre exchange knowledge on combating deforestation
This is the second technical exchange event with the Bolivians in the state of Acre. As a next step, the Bolivian government invited the Acre government to discuss the possible implementation of joint climate change mitigation and adaptation activities, which also involve curbing deforestation.
In Acre state, photographer accompanies the drama by floods
More than 5,300 people left their homes and were taken to public shelters. One person died due to leptospirosis and another is missing.
Madeira hydropowers are required to revise their dams impacts
Justice determines that Santo Antonio and Jirau hydroelectrics give assistance to victims of rains of are punishing Rondonia.
Rains in Acre: Closed main road on state and flooded homes
Circulation of vehicles was again interrupted in BR 364 road, which connects the state to Rondônia. Over a thousand people are homeless in the state.
G1: Flooding of Madeira River cuts highway and state of Acre may suffer stockouts
The State of Acre depends on the road to get food, fuel and gas. The historical level of the Madeira River reached 18.01 meters.
Acre is highlighted in the fight against deforestation of the Amazon
State contains deforestation, experiments with payments for environmental services and receive cuddles the international community.
Giant turtles lived in the Amazon before emigrating to Galapagos
The Chelonoidis prehistoric was reconstructed by paleontologists from the Federal University of Acre from fossils discovered in 1995 in the middle of the Amazon and never analyzed.