by Cristina Amorim | 01/06/2018 | Articles
Last week’s announcement by the Norwegian government that it would cut off some of the resources it donates to the Amazon Fund did not catch the environmental sector by surprise. Those who follow the Amazon deforestation fluctuations know that, since the value...
by Cristina Amorim | 01/06/2018 | Articles
Yesterday, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) promoted the planting of 1.6 thousand seedlings, in Anapu (state of Pará), to offset the carbon emissions counted by the Green Cup in 2017. A partnership between CBF, Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment, the...
by Cristina Amorim | 01/06/2018 | Articles
Cristina Amorim, IPAM As if deforestation wasn’t bad enough, a series of other threats kills, at an ever-increasing pace, the trees of the Amazon and other rainforests on Earth. An expert review of scientific articles, which included Brazilian researcher Paulo...
by Cristina Amorim | 01/06/2018 | Articles
Cristina Amorim, IPAM An area more extensive than the entire southern region of Brazil — 70 million hectares — covered by forests is today at the mercy of land grabbers and illegal deforestation in the Amazon. Setting this area for conservation and sustainable use...
