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Amazon rainforest may be home to more animals than previously thought

By Annika McGinnis 22 de April de 201614 de September de 2020

By tapping the expertise of indigenous hunters, researchers found that conventional surveying techniques underestimate animal populations and miss species in the remote Amazon.

Large amount of species of Amazon are under threat

By Annika McGinnis 18 de April de 201614 de September de 2020

Team of scientists found that depending on the degree to which deforestation comes under control in the next 35 years, between 36 and 57 percent of the 16,000 tree species in the tropical rainforest area would be considered threatened.

ree in deforested area in middle of the Amazon jungle

Guardian: Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals

By Mark Smith 24 de October de 201414 de September de 2020

The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has accelerated rapidly in the past two months, underscoring the shortcomings of the government’s environmental policies.

Discovery: Amazon Rainforest Seen Burning From Space

By Mark Smith 24 de September de 201414 de September de 2020

It’s alarming to see this photo taken in August by NASA astronauts on the International Space Station, which shows multiple fires raging in South America’s Amazon rainforest, where for years farmers have been burning down trees to clear land.

RiaNovosti: Brazil builds tower to monitor climate effects in Amazon rainforest

By Mark Smith 17 de September de 201414 de September de 2020

A high-rise observation tower will be built in Brazil to monitor climate change and its impacts on the Amazon’s ecosystem.

The Guardian: Tropical forests illegally destroyed for commercial agriculture

By Mark Smith 12 de September de 201414 de September de 2020

The study, Consumer Goods and Deforestation, says two countries – Brazil and Indonesia – account for 75% of the total area illegally cleared over the period.

Loreto: the dump that resists transfer (multimedia report)

By Mark Smith 27 de August de 201414 de September de 2020

The 1.5 kilometer road from Iquitos – Nauta was not a suitable place to dispose waste because of the harm to the health of people living nearby, and it is affecting the biodiversity of the area.

The Economist: Tropical forests: A clearing in the trees

By Mark Smith 22 de August de 201414 de September de 2020

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.

Vice.com: Peru’s New Cocaine: Gold has become America’s most illicit commodity

By Mark Smith 5 de August de 201414 de September de 2020

According to former environmental minister Antonio Brack Egg, gold mining has devastated nearly 370,000 acres of the Peruvian Amazon.

Targeted enforcement saved a Massachusetts-worth of Amazon rainforest in 3 years

By Mark Smith 24 de July de 201414 de September de 2020

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.

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