Tag: Rainforest
How Brazil Is Privatizing Public Forests and Opening the Door for More Deforestation
Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also ...
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Will See More Changes in Five Decades than in the Last 21,000 Years
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly ...
One Year After Guardian of the Forest’s Murder Nothing Has Changed in the Brazilian Amazon
Illegal loggers are operating unchecked in Brazil’s Amazon as coronavirus rages despite government vows ...
The Radical Changes Fires Are Causing the Amazon Flora and Fauna
The number of fires burning in standing Amazon rainforest spiked dramatically in recent weeks, ...
Worried About Brazil Amazon’s Fires? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
The number of fires this year in the Amazon is the highest since 2010, ...
Turning It into a Magic Place Is Not Doing the Amazon Any Good
The Amazon, perhaps more than any other region of the globe, has consistently been ...
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, ...
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 ...
Brazilian Indians Losing the Few Rights They Conquered in the Last Few Years
A ten-year anniversary of the United Nation’s landmark recognition of indigenous rights finds slow ...
Burger King Vows to Stop Amazon Deforestation by 2030. That’s Too Late, Say Critics
The owner of Burger King has pledged to eliminate deforestation from its supply chains ...
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