Raimundo was a counselor Reserve since 2012 and also participated in the Rural Workers Union of Bom Jardim, opposing the action of loggers in the region.
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Research: The end of the Amazon forest has a date: 2260
Illegal logging, urban sprawl, agricultural frontier expansion and impacts of infrastructure engineering works. The villains of deforestation in the Amazon are known but what is their real extension?
Fire attacks six thousand hectares of vegetation on two Amazonian states of Brazil
The fire affected the Tenharim-Marmelos Indigenous Reserve and the National Park of the Amazon Fields, between the states of Rondonia and Amazonas. Until last Saturday were destroyed six thousand hectares of vegetation.
Bahuaja Sonene National Park – Increasing deforestation within and around Southern Section
MAAP found increasing deforestation in the buffer zone and inside the Park. Were documented recent deforestation of 538 hectares within the Park and an additional 2,100 hectares in the surrounding buffer zone.
Interpretation Center in Pacaya Samiria Reserva, in Peru, was inaugurated
The center will conduct river trips, jungle tours, wildlife watching and will show the management of natural resources that made residents of the communities located within the reserve and its buffer zone
Protected areas of the Amazon absorbs 11 times more carbon
Research shows the importance of reserves and indigenous lands compared to unprotected areas, at a time when climate change is already fact in the region.
Colombian indigenous reserve gets big expansion after 20 years
The expansion of the Inga people’s Yunguillo Indigenous Reserve was first requested in 1983, but after 20 years of struggles, the efforts of those involved finally paid off as the reserve was quintupled from its original 4,320 hectares to 22,395 hectares.
Loreto: New operations against illegal logging in the Pacaya Samiria Reserve
The National Service of Protected Areas of Peru explained that at the end of operative was confiscated timber cut of several species which is marketed in the city of Iquitos for construction, with a value of nearly $ 30,000 .
Deforestation advances in the Extractive Reserve of Alto Jurua, Brazil
Research indicates acceleration in deforestation of the first Extractive Reserve created in the country. Study shows lack of investment from the federal government in the unit.
New deforestation into restricted area of Sierra del Divisor, Peru
Recently were detected new deforested areas during June within the protected area. According to experts, the cause could be attributed to the opening of areas for coca farms of illegal loggers