Amazon Fund News

With Lula taking office early this year, the fund was resumed and should get new donations from the U.K. and the United States.

In 2007, Ecuador’s then-president, Rafael Correa, announced an ambitious plan to prevent oil drilling in Yasuní National Park, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas and home to the Indigenous…

Crimes associated with illegal logging, mining and other illicit activities in the Brazilian Amazon are being felt in 24 of Brazil’s 27 states, a new report shows.

Based on the best scientific data available, the unprecedented Amazon Water Impact Index draws together monitoring and research data to identify the most vulnerable areas of the Brazilian rainforest. According to the index, 20% of the 11,216 Brazilian Amazon microbasins have an impact considered high, very high or extreme; half of these watersheds are affected by hydroelectric plants.

The Fund was one of the first UN REDD+ initiatives, and has seen successes, but critics say it must ratchet up to conserve more forest, even as Brazil’s government shirks its role.

The government of Brazil has announced that it has cut its climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions to the point that it has met a long-established goal three years ahead of time.…

Cattle ranching accounts for half of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions according to a new study led by scientists from Brazil's National Space Institute for Space Research (INPE). The research found…

Summary: Brazil's Amazon Fund to reduce deforestation distributes $40M to 5 NGOs Projects focus on monitoring, environmentally-responsible land use, forest protection, and payments for avoiding deforestation 20% of Amazon Fund…

An interview with Roberto Smeraldi, founder and director of Amigos da Terra - Amazônia Brasileira. One of the loudest voices calling for reduction of forest clearing in the Brazilian Amazon…

In conserving its forests while its growing export-oriented wood products industry, Vietnam outsources deforestation to Laos, Cambodia, and China. Deforestation is the Brazilian Amazon is likely to fall between 8,500…

A new study finds Amazon deforestation fails to sustain long-term economic growth for rural populations. The findings come as development interests in Brazil push for government support to bolster infrastructure…

Brazil has its own designs for REDD Accounting for roughly half of tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2005, Brazil is the most important supply-side player when it comes to developing…

Greenpeace finds Amazon deforestation in supply chains of global consumer products giants. Major international companies are unwittingly driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest through their purchases of leather, beef…

Nearly 80 percent of land deforested in the Amazon from 1996-2006 is now used for cattle pasture, according to a report released today by Greenpeace at the World Social Forum…

WWF criticizes Brazil's plan to cut Amazon deforestation WWF knocks Brazil's plan to cut Amazon deforestation mongabay.com December 4, 2008

Brazil to cut Amazon deforestation by 70% to fight global warming Brazil to cut Amazon deforestation by 70% to fight global warming mongabay.com December 1, 2008