Tag: forest

A Global Effort to Protect the Amazon Forest

In the Brazilian Amazon basin there are currently 42 conservation units (UC’s), encompassing approximately ...

Brazil Creates 20-Million-Acre Amazon Reserve

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva considered “cruel and cowardly” the assassination of ...

Wood from Forest Reserve Confiscated in Brazil

Inspectors from the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) in the ...

Brazil’s Amazon to Get US$ 80 Million for Conservation

Brazil’s Ministry of Environment’s (MMA) Amazon Protected Areas (Arpa) program will be able to ...

A Brazilian Pledge: Lasting War on Deforestation

The President of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), Marcus ...

Brazil: Army Joins War Against Deforestation

The Tauató Operation, to prevent, limit, and punish illegal deforestation, squatting, and slave-like labor, ...

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