The Munduruku community says that if the Brazilian government moves ahead with its plan to build several dams near the Tapajós River in the Amazon, its group will disappear.
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Bloomberg View: It takes a rancher to save a rainforest
This tropical turnaround tale is about smart policy and science allied with resourceful ranchers trying to make ends meet on one of the planet’s most hostile landscapes.
Targeted enforcement saved a Massachusetts-worth of Amazon rainforest in 3 years
The program, which imposes stiff penalties on municipalities that have excessively high deforestation rates, effectively avoided 1.23 billion tons of carbon emissions during the period.
Brazil could meet all its food demand by 2040 without cutting down another tree
Better utilization of its vast areas of pasturelands could enable Brazil to dramatically boost agricultural production without the need to clear another hectare of Amazon rainforest, cerrado, or Atlantic forest, argues a new study published in the journal Global Environmental Change.
Renewable Energy Magazine: Brazilian court rejects call to shut down Belo Monte dam
The federal court rejected the prosecutor’s request to suspend construction, and did the same for a request for compensation to indigenous from Volta Grande do Xingu.
InsideClimate News: Brazilian State Blazes Path To Sustainability in Amazonia
After sparking a movement against slash-and-burn agriculture and a murder, the State of Acre is selling a new vision of sustainability in the Amazon.
InsideClimateNews: Prosecutor Takes on Beef Industry to Put Brakes on Deforestation
Combining local activism with the long arm of its federal prosecutor, the state of Pará advances a new model for combating deforestation.
Science: Carrots as effective as sticks for slowing Amazon deforestation
An international team of scientists determined that positive incentives for farmers, counties, and states can do as much to preserve forests as public policies that call for penalties.
Black River flooding could reach 29.60 meters in Manaus
The Alert Flooding in Manaus, published by Geological Service Brazil, stipulates that the peak of the flooding of the Rio Negro will happen in the first fortnight of June.
BBC News: Carbon loss from tropical forests is “underestimated”
Researchers say degradation in Brazil causes additional emissions equivalent to 40% of those from deforestation.