Environment
New Inventory Lowers the Number of Amazonian Trees Species from 16,200 to 6,700
Scientists report that the Amazon region has more than 6,700 species of native trees, ...
Brazil’s Thirst for Hydropower Is Killing the Wildlife-rich Pantanal
The Pantanal in central South America may not be as globally famous as the ...
Mining Is Responsible for 10 Percent of Deforestation in the Amazon
Nearly ten percent of all the deforestation occurring in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 ...
In an Act of Revenge, Brazilian Gold Miners Set Government Buildings Ablaze
Hundreds of armed men have set fire to environmental agency buildings in Brazil’s Amazon ...
Cattle Ranchers in the Amazon Could Earn More Farming. But They Wouldn’t Be Happy
Picture the Brazilian Amazon. You probably don’t see a lot of cows in that ...
Benefits and Risks of Legal Wildlife Trade in the Amazon
The multimillion-dollar legal wildlife trade in species originating from Amazonian countries has been analyzed ...
How Ecotourism Is Saving the Brazilian Jaguar from Extinction
From villain to hero, the jaguar (Panthera onça) stands at the cusp of a ...
Tired of Being Denied Territory, Amazon Peoples Are Drawing Their Own Maps
In 1707, a Jesuit missionary from the Czech Republic named Samuel Fritz published one ...
For Amazon’s Largest Restoration Ever the Forest Will Get 73 Million New Trees in Six Years
A major initiative for the restoration of degraded areas in the Brazilian Amazon calls ...
The Revocation of Brazil’s Pro-Deforestation Decree Has No Teeth
On August 23, 2017, Brazil’s president Michel Temer issued a decree revoking the RENCA ...
