Just entered into force a ban on fishing and marketing of piracatinga ( Calophysus macropterus </ em>) to contain the indiscriminate killing of dolphins and caimans, and fishermen in the state of Amazonas began to articulate to reduce the moratorium
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Belo Monte will remove 2,000 families in two months in Altamira
To circumvent delays and obey the new Belo Monte plant’s construction schedule, Norte Energia dealership will remove in the next two months more than 2,000 families of the areas that will be flooded.
A Crítica.com: An ‘information ferry’ to stimulate eco-tourism in the Amazon
The Floating Center is the idea of the State Department of the Environment in Brazil to boost tourism in protected areas. The vessel will have capacity for 150 people and will follow an environmentally friendly standard, says the department.
The Guardian: Belo Monte, Brazil – tribes living in the shadow of a megadam
Next year the Belo Monte dam will flood vast swathes of Amazon rainforest. Indian tribes living on the river have lost their fight to halt the project – now they await the floods that threaten their entire way of life.
Phys.org: Satellite technology shows Amazon absorbing less carbon due to less rainfall
The forest that remains is receiving less rain, which in turn is making it less green which means the trees that are there are pulling in less carbon dioxide from the air around them.
Guardian: Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals
The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has accelerated rapidly in the past two months, underscoring the shortcomings of the government’s environmental policies.
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.
Forest fragmentation’s carbon bomb: 736 million tonnes C02 annually
When forests are slashed into fragments, winds dry out the edges leading to dying trees and rising temperatures. Now, a new study finds another worrisome impact of forest fragmentation: carbon emissions.
Brazil unlikely to keep reducing deforestation without new incentives
Cattle ranchers that drive the vast majority of forest clearing in the Brazilian Amazon are unlikely to be held at bay indefinitely unless they are afforded new incentives for keeping trees standing, argues new analysis published by an economic research group.
UT San Diego: Countries pledge to end forest loss; Brazil balks
More than 30 countries set the first-ever deadline on Tuesday to end deforestation by 2030, but the feasibility of such a goal was eroded when a key player, Brazil, said it would not join because it was not included in the planning process.