The study, Consumer Goods and Deforestation, says two countries – Brazil and Indonesia – account for 75% of the total area illegally cleared over the period.
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The Economist: Tropical forests: A clearing in the trees
Typically, countries start in poverty with their land covered in trees. As they clear it for farms or fuel, they get richer—until alarm bells ring and they attempt to recover their losses.
Peruvian company paid 10 cents per square meter in the Amazon and promptly deforested
Farmers in Tamshiyacu, in Loreto region, report that the culprit of the deforestation that has been occurring is Cacao del Perú Norte, a company that kills the primary forests of the area without the permission of the regional entity.
Deforestation ramping up in Yasuni as Ecuador sets to open up national park to drilling
Yasuni National Park has been in the conservation spotlight in recent years, with oil drilling threatening their forests and wildlife. Satellite data shows a significant increase in deforestation alerts within the park since 2011.
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.
Trust.org: To cut carbon emissions, give communities rights to forest land
Communities are far more likely to stop trees being cut down than governments or business, found research issued by the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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.
The Wall Street Journal: Aerial images of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest
Mr. Baleia has sought to dismantle the idyllic, exotic image of the Amazon, where ”nature was untouched and people were living in harmony,” replacing it with graphic, aerial images of an eroded paradise.