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2021 Amazon Deforestation Map Shows Devastating Impact of Ranching, Agriculture
Maxwell Radwin | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The Andean Amazon Project found that around 1.9 million hectares (4.8 million acres) of primary forest were lost in 2021, mostly as the result of cattle ranching and other agricultural activities.
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Cattle Boom in Brazil’s Acre Spells Doom for Amazon Rainforest, Activists Warn
Sarah Brown | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – With about 80% of its forests still untouched, Acre is one of Brazil’s least-deforested Amazonian states. But in the past three decades, the thriving cattle industry has become a major threat to Acre’s forests, with livestock now outnumbering the state’s human population by a factor of four.
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‘Rampant Forest Destruction’ Wracks Reserve as Cattle Ranching Advances in Brazilian Amazon
Morgan Erickson-Davis and Ana Ionova | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021- The Terra do Meio reserve is a federally protected area across the Amazon Brazilian state of Pará. But, despite its protected status, the reserve has come under growing pressure. Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 14 2021, some 25,943 deforestation alerts were confirmed in primary forest within it.
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Banks Increased Deforestation-Linked Investments by $8B during Covid-19: Report
Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – A new analysis of financial data by Forests & Finance, a coalition of NGOs, has found that weak policies and continued major investments in forest-risk sectors are driving deforestation in Southeast Asia, Latin America and West and Central Africa.
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(Português) Enquanto a Amazônia queima, o que acontece com a biodiversidade?
Liz Kimbroughem (Mongabay) | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
17 out 2020 – Mais de 40% dos incêndios na Amazônia brasileira neste ano estão ocorrendo em florestas, com mais de 4,6 milhões de acres já impactados este ano. Embora longe de serem totalmente estudados, esses incêndios florestais têm grandes repercussões para a flora e fauna.
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Fires Raze Nearly Half of Indigenous Territories in Brazil’s Pantanal
Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca and Raphaela Ribeiro | Agência Pública, Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – In September, 164 fires were recorded across Indigenous territories in the Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s biggest wetland. In August, there were more than 200. Nearly half of the certified Indigenous areas in the region have already been subject to fires that cut off villages, destroyed homes and farms, and sent community members to hospital for respiratory problems.
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(Português) Como Indígenas Estão Vivenciando as Mudanças Climáticas na Amazônia
Jenny Gonzales (Mongabay) | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
9 junho 2020 – Chuvas tardias, seca intensa, leitos secos, mais incêndios florestais, menos comida disponível – comunidades indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira sofrem transformações sociais através da mudança climática.
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Illegal Tin Mining Leaves Trail of Ruin in Protected Brazilian Rainforest
Ana Ionova | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
30 Dec 2019 – The damage became clear once the rain stopped over Altamira National Forest in northern Brazil. Instead of dense jungle, large patches of bare land now flanked the banks of the rivers in this protected stretch of the Amazon rainforest. “When we got a clean satellite image we just saw devastation,” said one source at a government environmental agency. “We never saw anything like that in Altamira.”
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Land Thieves Ramp up Deforestation in Brazil’s Jamanxim National Forest
Sue Branford and Thais Borges | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
4 Jul 2019 – Deforestation is rising dramatically in Brazil, with satellite data showing the country’s Amazonian region lost more forest in May than during any other month in the past decade.
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Brazil to Open Indigenous Reserves to Mining without Indigenous Consent
Sue Branford and Maurício Torres | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
14 Mar 2019 – For many years, international and Brazilian mining companies have dreamed of getting access to the mineral wealth lying beneath indigenous lands. And finally, the government of Jair Bolsonaro seems determined to give them that opportunity. On 4 March, while Brazilians were distracted by Carnival celebrations, the new Minister of Mines and Energy Admiral Bento Albuquerque announced plans to permit mining on indigenous land.
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Top 10 Happy Environmental Stories of 2018
Basten Gokkon | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – “I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces of puzzle scattered all over the place. If you look at the whole picture it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits of it, that’s what will give you hope.”
— Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist and conservationist
Slave Labor Found at Starbucks-Certified Brazil Coffee Plantation
Daniela Penha | Repórter Brasil, Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
18 Sep 2018 – Brazil Labor Ministry investigators have raided the Córrego das Almas farm in Piumhi, in rural Minas Gerais state, and rescued 18 workers who were laboring on coffee plantations in conditions analogous to slavery.
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Deadly Oil Spill in Eastern Borneo Spreads to the Open Sea
Basten Gokkon | Mongabay [Indonesia] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
5 Apr 2018 – An oil spill in Borneo that began over the past weekend has now spread across an area greater than the city of Paris and is heading out to the open ocean, the Indonesian government says.
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