Deforestation in the Amazon: past, present and future
Mar 21, 2023 · According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon could lose almost half of what it lost in the past two decades. To understand the reasons for such a bleak future, they analyzed the deforestation rates of recent years, identifying the main threats in the present and pointing to measures needed to reverse this process.
Hunting, deforestation, and fire threaten jaguars in the Amazon …
Dec 7, 2021 · The Federal Prosecutor's Office wants harsher penalties for a gang that killed big cats in the state of Acre. No one has been arrested. In the Amazon, human action kills or displaces about 350 jaguars every year.
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Bureaucracy and administrative appeals benefit families of deforesters fined over R$ 30 million. The Heller family members are defendants in more than 26 cases related to environmental crimes in Novo Progresso and Altamira, Pará, and Itaúba, Mato Grosso.
Murky Waters - InfoAmazonia
Murky waters is a series of stories produced by InfoAmazonia with support from the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) and Earthrise Media. In four special reports, we show how the pollution in the Amazon rivers has a direct connection with environmental impacts that are being observed in the Atlantic Ocean.
Chemical products and deforestation modify Amazon River water
Oct 20, 2021 · A study reveals that activities such as mining, deforestation and agriculture have altered the ecosystems and biodiversity of the waters of 149 major rivers throughout the world, putting entire populations at risk. A study reveals that activities such as mining, deforestation and agriculture have altered the ecosystems and biodiversity of the waters of 149 major rivers throughout the world ...
Costing Nature
The end of the Amazon Forest has a date: 2260 At the current rate of degradation, the largest rainforest on the planet may only be around for another two centuries
Emily Costa, autor(a) em InfoAmazonia
Journalist based in the Amazon, where she works as a producer, reporter, and fixer. She graduated in Social Communication at the Federal University of Roraima and took Connectas' investigative journalism course.
Venezuela - InfoAmazonia
Sep 14, 2020 · In 2016, the same year of the Tumeremo massacre, in Bolívar state, southern Venezuela, in which at least 17 miners were killed by organized crime, the Venezuelan government created the Orinoco Mining Arc (Since then, at least 18 other killings have occurred in the designated mining zone, a territory of 111,000 square kilometers).
Digging into the Mining Arc
Jan 15, 2018 · The destruction of 110 thousand square kilometres of forests in the largest mining project in Venezuela
Land with law, without law: Dynamics of hunting practice in …
Jan 11, 2016 · Yolanda Kakabadse: ‘While the rainforest is politically divided, the biome is one" September 27, 2016. Yolanda Kakabadse – the indefatigable defender of sustainability – is a former Ecuadorian Minister of Environment and the current International President of WWF.