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Deforestation in the Amazon hits a record high for the month of January
Brazilian Space Agency INPE estimates that 430 km² of forest were cleared in just one month, a five-fold increase from January 2021 “Even in January, when deforestation is usually lower…
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Biodiversity and the Amazon Rainforest
What is Biodiversity? Biodiversity describes the differences and variations that exist between all living beings: animals, plants, microscopic bacteria, funghi, and everything else you can imagine that is considered living.…
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Bolsonaro’s Christmas gift to perpetrators of illegal deforestation
2019 was a terrible year for the Amazon Rainforest – threats to its survival have intensified, but the situation can always get worse. A new Provisional Presidential Decree (PPD) 910, signed on Tuesday…
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An Amazon adventure
Marine biologist and Greenpeace US Oceans Campaign Director John Hocevar has traveled down to Brazil to join the crew of the Esperanza and a group of researchers who have set out to document this amazing natural wonder for the very first time. He’ll be sharing Notes from the Field as he goes.
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Logging: The Amazon’s Silent Crisis
Governance in the timber sector in the Brazilian Amazon is weak and open to exploitation, allowing criminals launder illegal timber as legal with official documentation. It is estimated that in…
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Driving Destruction in the Amazon
Two years of Greenpeace investigations, summarized in this report, reveal that end users including major global car manufacturers – indirectly or directly source pig iron whose production is fueled by…
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Mahogany – The “Green Gold” of Amazon Destruction
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Slaughtering the Amazon
Download document Executive summary: Zero deforestation is a climate imperative Forests play a vital role in stabilizing the world’s climate by storing large amounts of carbon that would otherwise contribute…
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Amazon Cattle Footprint, Mato Grosso: State of Destruction
Download document Executive summary: Cattle ranching is the primary driver of forest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon, with 79.5% of deforested land used for cattle pasture. Using specialized techniques to…
