Zero tolerance of deforestation likely only way to save Amazon gateway
Conservationists call for total halt to deforestation and implementation of sustainable agroforestry in Brazilian state of Maranhão.
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Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft
Indians decry Temer’s backing of “marco temporal,” which could negate legal indigenous claims to millions of hectares in the Amazon and elsewhere, protestors say.
Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights
Brazil’s president approves new criteria for indigenous land demarcation to deny Indians their traditional lands; opens door to elite land thieves, agribusiness, opponents say.
Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses
Satellites are mechanical reporters of the Amazon deforestation process. By documenting the degradation and gaps created by the clear-cutting process over the years, they deliver the verdict: two-thirds of the…
Forest fragmentation may be releasing much more carbon than we think
The earth's forests have been broken into around 50 million fragments, the edges of which add up to a length that would make it a third of the way to…
Cattle driving big forest loss in Peru’s ‘under-appreciated’ Amazon
When one thinks of cattle ranchers destroying the Amazon rainforest, one usually thinks of Brazil. And for good reason: cattle ranching continues to be the leading cause of deforestation in…
Declining pastureland around the globe presents significant conservation opportunity
New evidence that global pasture extent is declining presents an important conservation opportunity, according to a researcher. Some 62 million hectares of pasture (about 153 million acres, an area three…
Study finds abandoned pasture is ‘a huge resource that is not being harnessed’
A pastured sheep near the Chimborazo volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes. Photo by Guido Alvarez. As tropical forests around the world are cleared for human development, scientists and conservationists are…
Plant wars: some tree species compete better against grasses for reforestation
Biologists may have discovered essential information that could help trees overcome specific grass species on tropical forest restoration sites What happens to degraded pastureland once the cows are kicked out?…
Making reforestation work in abandoned pasturelands
Pasture with rainforest behind in the Lacandon rainforest. Photo by: Alejandro Linares Garcia. Tropical reforestation is not easy, especially in abandoned pasturelands. But a new study in mongabay.com's open access…
Activists target Brazil’s largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching
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…
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Endangered environmentalists
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Global forest reporting network
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- Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’
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Amazon infrastructure
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- Amazon dam defeats Brazil’s environment agency (commentary)
- Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin
Asian rhinos
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