Special about the impacts of mining, oil, roads, deforestation, fire and hydroelectric power plants in 9 countries of the forest.
Tag: conservation
CCTV News: ‘Mapping’ Assesses Never Before Seen Parts of Amazon Rainforest
CCTV News joins with scientists for a bird’s eye view of the Amazon Rainforest as they explain the latest technology they are using to assess its ecological value called mapping.
Loreto: University students liberated about 400 turtles
On Nanay riverwalk, Iquitos, a group of students from the National University of the Peruvian Amazon released about 400 baby turtles Podocnemis unifilis, born in captivity.
Marina Silva: “It goes to ground” about work against deforestation
Minister of the Environment from 2003 to 2008, said on Twitter that was lost a decade of combat deforestation in the Amazon.
La Razón: Debate over development in the Amazon
VI Pan-Amazon Social Forum takes place in the city of Cobija, in Bolivia, with representatives of the nine Amazonian countries.
Terra: The indigenous chief Raoni “is happy” to advocate for the Amazon in France
Brazilian indigenous chief advocated for the cause of the Amazon and the indigenous peoples in the presidential Elysee Palace in France.
EBC: Incra creates sustainability program for settlements in the Amazon
The National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform of Brazil created the Green Settlements, to restrain illegal deforestation in areas of land reform in the Amazon.
Invasions in indigenous lands threaten sustainable fisheries project
Incursions of fishing boats attracted by increasing numbers of fish threatens pirarucú management of Paumari indigenous in Purus River.
Attempt to reduce ecotourism concession of Ese’Eja Hell native community is stopped
Regional Government of Madre de Dios dismissed the request for exclusion of the agricultural area on the ecotourism concession
The Páramo of the Virgin, the highest part of the road Quito – Amazon
The Paramo of the Virgin is the highest point (4,000 meters) of the road east of the country. Is one of the main water reservoirs of Quito.