Deforested area in May 2021 reached 1.125 km², 70% more than the same month in 2020 Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has broken a new negative record. According to Imazon, a research center that monitors the rainforest through satellite images since 2008, the deforested area reached 1,125 km² in May 2021. This number represents
The pirarucu, a big fish native to the Amazon (adults in the wild can grow to a whopping 450 pounds), was highlighted as an under-exploited symbol of sustainable development in Brazilian Amazon. According to an article published today in Americas Quarterly, the prevailing sentiment in the region is that the fishing industry could be worth
The land regularization in the Brazilian Amazon was highlighted by Mongabay. After an interview with the Imazon’s associate researcher Brenda Brito, the website talked about two proposed laws that could reward land grabbers. “We are not talking about lands invaded in the past, but about lands invaded now and in the future. It will force
In an article for Americas Quarterly magazine, Brenda Brito, associate researcher at Imazon, talked about the threat from two proposed land-use laws that could worsen an already vicious cycle of illegal land invasion in the Brazilian Amazon. “If passed, they would ease criteria for privatizing public lands that have been illegally deforested, granting, in other words, legal
The bank JP Morgan used the most recent Imazon’s research about Amazon deforestation. Read complete here
The advance of deforestation, illegal mining, fires and infrastructure projects indicate that the Amazon is much more threatened than eight years ago. This is what the new Atlas Amazon Under Pressure from the Amazon Geo-referenced Socio-environmental Information Network (Raisg) indicates, launched on December 8. The publication took an X-ray of the main threats to the
Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research (Inpe) said that more than 405 sq km (156 sq miles) of the Amazon had been deforested last month compared with 248 sq km in April last year. Between January and April, a total of 1,202 sq km was wiped out, it said. Conservation groups said that, since the
Paulo Barreto (Research, Imazon) and Robert Muggah (Principal, SecDev Group) News coverage of the catastrophic impacts of global warming are everywhere. From the Arctic to Brazil, the house is clearly on fire. One study recently estimated that the productivity of the 10 most important agricultural crops has on average decreased worldwide due to a warmer
Brazil has seen a dramatic increase in the number of fires in the Amazon with more than 80,000 fires so far this year alone. New data recently released by the government shows that deforestation is at the highest point in a decade, with an area 10 times the size of New York City deforested since the
Mongabay posted a report about Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected rainforest. Floresta Nacional de Altamira (Flona de Altamira) spans some 724,965 hectares in the state of Pará, and is home to a rich diversity of plants and animals, including several species threatened with extinction. Recently, an influx of illegal mining has
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