Tag: Amazon rainforest

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Brazil seeking more funds from rich countries to protect the Amazon rainforest

  

  Brazil’s plans for environmental protection remain unchanged even as deforestation skyrockets, but Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said the country was looking for more money to implement those plans. Salles largely repeated previously announced plans to bring more development, economic zoning and improved enforcement of environmental laws to the Amazon rainforest region, where deforestation has surged to its highest point in 11 years.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Wildfires ranging across Brazil's Pantanal wetlands

  

  Wildfires are raging across the Pantanal tropical wetlands in southern Brazil, one of the most biodiversity areas in the world and a major tourist destination, regional authorities said on Thursday.

• Saturday, August 31st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil thanks Trump for being “on the same page” in the Amazon controversy: no foreign interference

  

  Brazil and the United States believe the international community should have no say in confronting fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo said on Friday after meeting President Donald Trump.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  Leonarod Di Caprio's Earth Alliance donates US$ 5 million to help Amazon indigenous communities

  

  Leonardo Di Caprio's environmental organization is putting US$5m towards helping the Amazon rainforest after the recent surge in fires there. Earth Alliance will give the money to local groups and indigenous communities as they work to protect the Amazon.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:47 UTC

  Amazon deforestation: Bolsonaro ready to sack official who exposed him

  

  The head of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research said on Friday he was going to be sacked following a row with President Jair Bolsonaro over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil: Amazon rainforest deforestation advancing at its fastest rate during May

  

  Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, according to data from an early-warning satellite system, as experts pointed to activity by illegal loggers encouraged by the easing of environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 06:44 UTC

  American Museum of Natural History will not host a dinner to honor Bolsonaro

  

  The American Museum of Natural History in New York said on Monday that it will not host a planned gala dinner that was set to honor Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro as “Person of the Year.”

• Monday, March 25th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Bolsonaro: Brazil owes nothing to the world regarding the environment

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said his country “does not owe the world anything” when it comes to the environment. The far-right leader, who is critical of the Paris climate change accord, was speaking in Chile following Friday’s launch of the Forum for the Progress of South America (PROSUR), a conservative-minded group of South American leaders.

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 09:30 UTC

  Brazil environment regulator denies license to drill near mouth of the Amazon

  

  Brazil's environmental regulator on Friday denied French oil giant Total a license to drill for crude in five blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river. Regulatory agency Ibama said the license was denied “due to a set of technical problems” identified during the application process.

• Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest reaches highest level in a decade

  

  The destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its highest level in a decade this year, government data released on Friday showed, driven by illegal logging and the encroachment of agriculture in the jungle.