For the first few days of February is expected in Bolivia the session of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin.
Tag: roads
Highway of Evo Morales government is rejected by indigenous leader
Controversy of the road that will cut the park did not end. Indigenous leader says the road is allowed to “invalid, illegal and illegitimate”.
Draft law on terrestrial interconnection Puerto Esperanza – Iñapari could be approved in Standing Committee
Project could affect protected areas and indigenous territories.
Consultation ended in TIPNIS Park: road was accepted
Of the 58 communities that were consulted, 55 accepted the road. Groups opposed do not recognize the results.
Deforestation of Rondonia seen from space
From 2000 to 2010, Rondonia had 208 000 km2 of forest lost.200120052010
RAISG trained technicians to monitor the forest
Amazon Under Pressure Atlas was a first result, the second is to work on information management and monitoring in each country.
New forms of occupation can put an end to the Amazon
Study shows that does not exist a space of governance involving all pan-amazons actors. Unsustainable development would mean degradation, suppression and fragmentation of the Amazon.
Amazon governments: geopolitical decisions vs conservation
Geopolitical decisions are above any conservation initiative. The environment would be an underlying theme to the continent’s governments.
Amazon Under Pressure Atlas: Solution for Amazon
Results of the study on the biome should serve to public policy formulation for sustainable development in the Amazon.
Interactive map: Amazon Under Pressure
InfoAmazonia special map with data on the impacts of mining, oil, roads, deforestation, fire and hydropower in 9 countries in the jungle.