Tag: Amazon rainforest

• Tuesday, March 14th 2023 - 09:38 UTC

  Amazon fires grip 90% of the area in first two months of 2023

  

  According to a report issued Monday by the Fire Monitor, an initiative of the Annual Mapping Project of Land Use and Land Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas) in partnership with the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the Amazon biome concentrated 90% of its areas with fires, representing 487,000 hectares. In the first two months of 2022, the area totaled 654,000 hectares. In the country's six biomes - Amazonia, Caatinga, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Pampa, and Pantanal - there were fires over 536,000 hectares.

• Friday, February 17th 2023 - 09:22 UTC

  Lula, von der Leyen discuss Mercosur deal and deforestation

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva discussed Thursday the Mercosur agreement with European Union (EU) President Ursula von der Leyen in a telephone conversation during which both leaders also reviewed the South American country's fight against deforestation, it was reported.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 09:57 UTC

  German Chancellor meets Lula da Silva, pledges €200 million for Amazon forest

  

  Germany has pledged €200 million to help Brazil defend the Amazon forest. German Chanellor Olaf Scholz made the announcement during a visit to Brasilia where he met with president Lula da Silva and congratulated him for the return of Brazil to the world stage.

• Saturday, January 28th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Degradation also harmful to Amazon rainforest, study shows

  

  One-third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a combination of human activity and drought, according to a scientific report carried this week by the journal Science. The study released on Thursday yielded results much higher than previously thought and underlined that, in addition to deforestation, degradation can be just as harmful.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:08 UTC

  Colombian national believed to have ordered murders of journalists Dom and Bruno

  

  Brazilian authorities Monday said during a press conference in Manaus that they had nearly solved the murders of British reporter Dom Phillips and indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, which were perpetrated on June 5, last year, in the middle of the Amazon jungle.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 20:29 UTC

  Record Amazon deforestation reached last year

  

  According to a report released Wednesday by Brazil's Institute of Man and Environment of the Amazon (Imazon), deforestation in 2022 hit new highs, with 10,573 km² of forest vegetation lost, Agencia Brasil reported. That surface is tantamount to that of nearly 3,000 football fields, it was explained.

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Marina Silva, an active environmentalist and defender of the Amazon is back in Lula da Silva's cabinet

  

  Marina Silva, an active environmentalist, has been appointed Brazil's next environment minister by president elect Lula da Silva. Ms Silva held a similar post in Lula's first government in 2003, but following strong differences stepped down and formed her own political party.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Increasing number of wildfires recorded in Amazon after new Forest Code

  

  Wildfires in Boca do Acre, Amazonas, went from 66% in 2012, the year the new Forest Code was approved, to 88% in 2019, according to a report from the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts of Natural Disasters (Cemaden) published Tuesday in partnership with other organizations, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits record highs

  

  Brazil's Amazon lost 903.8 square kilometers of forest during the month of October of 2022, which is tantamount to 3% more than in the same period last year, the National Institute of Special Research (INPE) reported during the weekend.

• Thursday, November 10th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Germany, Norway and UK support plan to contain deforestation in the Colombian Amazon

  

  Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom are supporting a plan from the Colombian government, working with local communities to contain deforestation in the Colombian Amazon, it was announced at the COP27 taking place at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.