URUARA, Brazil: Brazil’s environmental enforcement brokers set out in January on their first mission this yr to fight unlawful deforestation, with renewed power after the election of a president who has promised to cease surging Amazon rainforest destruction. However, after years of dwindling funding and employees on the environmental company …
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America has agreed to offer funding and gear to Laos to assist fight unlawful logging in its nationwide protest forests, an official on the U.S. Embassy in Laos mentioned. Officers from the U.S. Forest Service’s Worldwide Program and the Lao Division of Forest Inspection signed a memorandum of understanding on …
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CNN — Human exercise and excessive drought is inflicting way more injury to the Amazon rainforest than beforehand thought, exacerbating local weather change, based on a brand new research. Whereas many local weather research deal with Amazon deforestation – the place timber are fully cleared and land use adjustments – …
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil’s incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency’s headquarters — even its coffee room — as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing. The ritual carried extra meaning for Joenia Wapichana, Brazil’s first …
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Acrid smoke swirls amid the buzzing of dozens of chainsaws under the majestic Nyiragongo Volcano, scenes of devastation in the heart of the lush natural treasure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern region. In less than two months, more than 200 hectares (500 acres) of forest have been …
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A new study has found that tropical forests, which have been logged (cut down) or degraded, remain a source of carbon emission for at least a decade. The findings are contrary to a previous assumption – that recovering tropical forests absorb more carbon than they emit into the atmosphere because …
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Most European consumers’ shopping baskets tend to include items linked to deforestation in tropical regions, involving agricultural commodities such as beef, soybeans, palm oil, cocoa, rubber, coffee, timber and paper. These so-called “forest-risk” commodities are used in thousands of consumer goods ranging from hamburgers to chocolate bars. Yet this may …
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