Perfect Storm in the Amazon News

In 2023, Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Author Timothy J. Killeen is an academic and expert who, since the 1980s, has studied the rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia, where he lived for more than 35 years. Chronicling the efforts of nine Amazonian countries to curb deforestation, this edition provides an overview of the topics most relevant to the conservation of the region’s biodiversity, ecosystem services and Indigenous cultures, as well as a description of the conventional and sustainable development models that are vying for space within the regional economy.

Evolution of the Pan Amazon in the post-Jesuit era

Rural-urban migration across the Amazon Basin

Indigenous communities in the Amazon fight for full recognition

The people who make up the Pan-Amazonian melting pot: regional demographics

CHAPTER 6. Culture and demographics defines the Pan Amazon’s present

Wildcat miners: will cyanide displace mercury?

The future of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

The challenge of the next oil and gas investments further in the Pan Amazon

The indelible traces of oil and gas in the Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Colombian Amazon

The Andes are a key supplier of gold for the Amazon Basin

Expanding the colonization of the Brazilian Amazon through gold mining

Brazil’s wildcat mining is deeply rooted in its politics and thirst for minerals

Minerals for agricultural use can already be found in Amazonia

Brasil, Venezuela and Peru: the geography of industrial metals

Mineral hotspots in the Pan Amazon

The most prominent mining companies in the Pan Amazon – a review

Solutions to avoid loss of environmental, social and governance investment

In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Is the extractive sector really favorable for the Pan Amazon’s economy?

State management and regulation of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

The environmental mismanagement of enduring oil industry impacts in the Pan Amazon

Illegal mining in the Pan Amazon: an ecological disaster for floodplains and local communities

Mining in the Pan Amazon in pursuit of the world’s most precious metal

The environmental and social liabilities of the extractive sector

Mineral commodities: the wealth that generates most impacts in the Pan Amazon | Chapter 5 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Reforestation and restoration: Two ways to make the Pan Amazon greener

Reconciling conservation agriculture and agroforestry for sustainability

Land irrigation as an obstacle to agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

What is most convenient in land distribution?

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