In late August of this year, IBAMA found the deforestation of 300 hectares on public lands in the middle of the buffer zone of Altamira National Forest.
Tag: protected areas
Estadão: Amazon deforestation advances in protected areas
Loggers perform specific actions in reserves that are not detected by satellite.
Reuters: Ecuador says that companies join Yasuní Green Initiative
About a dozen companies are contributing to a vanguardist conservation plan on Ecuador which seeks to be paid for not exploring part of the Amazon rich in oil.
BBC: Evo Morales signs contract to build Tipnis Amazon road
The president of Bolivia signed a contract to resume the construction of the controversial road through the ecological reserve Tipnis, to which local indigenous are against.
Justice determines eviction of Bom Futuro forest
Decision taken in September determines the withdrawal of families who live in the place.
300,000 feet of illegal wood were seized on Sierra del Divisor Reserved Zone
The National Service of Protected Natural Areas of Peru intervened 300,000 feet of wood of various species, illegally logged inside the protected area.
Amazonas: ninth private conservation area is declared in the region
The Ministry of Environment of Peru declared the ninth private conservation area of the Amazon region, in Taulia Molinopampa, that will help preserve the ecosystem of the palm forest and wet grassland.
Mamirauá: landscapes of a flooded forest
Region regulated by the water cycle, the flood comes to have a variation that can reach up to 12 meters high.
Madre de Dios: Peruvian government recognizes private conservation area Benjamin I Forest
Peruvian Government recognized for ten renewable years Private Conservation Area Forest Benjamin I, with 29 hectares of forest in the buffer zone of the Tambopata Reserve.
El Deber: Madidi, among the most biodiverse on Earth
Report presented in the World Conservation Congress in Korea, considers the Madidi National Park in Bolivia one of the most biodiverse protected areas on the planet.