By Mongabay.com The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has remained near a six-year low despite a surge in the ...
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon during 2022 ... The Brazilian Amazon -the world's largest rainforest- lost 10,267 square kilometers of vegetation in 2022, a 24.9% increase from 2021's ...
the Amazon rainforest is commonly known as the planet's lungs. Despite its ecological and economic importance, and efforts which have seen a decline in its deforestation rate, the Brazilian Amazon ...
Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises ... the elimination or degradation of the original plant cover in the Amazon Rainforest and Cerrado biomes. "Illegal activities such as grilagem ...
The Brazilian state of Para plans to consult Indigenous communities about the sale of carbon offset credits to U.S. companies ...
Brazil's government on Thursday joined Asian palm oil and coffee producers in welcoming a European Union decision to delay ...
paving this road will be so detrimental for the Amazon rainforest, which we all know is crucial -- both to Brazil and the world in general." Aside from the further deforestation, environmental ...
A new report links Brazil’s top meatpackers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — to widespread deforestation across the Pantanal, Amazon and Cerrado; of five farms investigated between October 2023 ...