Tag: forest

All Indications Are That Brazil President Will Veto Forestry Law Pushed by Farm Lobby

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff’s top administrative aide, Gilberto Carvalho, made it clear that the ...

Brazil Converts US$ 21 Million Debt to US into Project to Protect Forests

Brazil and the United States signed an agreement in which Brazil will use US$ ...

Brazil’s Deforestation Falls 20%, But It’s Up 6% in Protected Areas

According to a report published on Sunday, July 6, by Rio's daily O Globo ...

Brazilian Amazon Communities Make Money Saving the Rainforest

Three hundred families associated with the Brazilian Cooperative of Ecological Farmers of the Amazon ...

Brazilian Journalist Wants UN Army to Protect World’s Forests

To declare the world’s forest reserves and hydrographic basins as a humanity world heritage ...

Expert Pans New Brazil’s Forest Bill As Harmful to the Amazon

The bill before the National Congress for the regulation of public forest management (PL ...

Cattle Raising Is Making Brazil’s Reserve into a Huge Grazing Land

Satellite images reveal that approximately 3% of the 950,570 hectares that form the Chico ...

Brazil Wants to Create 15 New Conservation Units in the Amazon

At present the state of Amazonas, in Brazil, has 14 million hectares of protected ...

Bank of Brazil Offers Credit for Reforestation

The Banco do Brasil (Bank of Brazil – BB) will offer a credit line ...

Brazil Reserves 13 Million Hectares of Amazon for Sustainable Use

Brazil’s Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, said Wednesday, March 30, that the Brazilian government’s ...

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