BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...
PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...
URUARA, Brazil - Brazil's first raids against illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under President Luiz Inacio Lula ...
Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds ...
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Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat
SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...
A new report reveals that escalating demands for minerals, biofuels, and pulp are driving rainforests like the Amazon closer ...
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The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability
By Rhett Ayers Butler [( In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. The Amazon rainforest is often discussed through a few familiar measures: ...
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