Tag: Amazon
New Inventory Lowers the Number of Amazonian Trees Species from 16,200 to 6,700
Scientists report that the Amazon region has more than 6,700 species of native trees, ...
Mining Is Responsible for 10 Percent of Deforestation in the Amazon
Nearly ten percent of all the deforestation occurring in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 ...
Cattle Ranchers in the Amazon Could Earn More Farming. But They Wouldn’t Be Happy
Picture the Brazilian Amazon. You probably don’t see a lot of cows in that ...
Amazon Forest’s Keepers Under Pressure of Ranchers Fear for Their Future
In western Brazil’s Amazon, the people tasked with looking after the world’s greatest rainforest ...
Benefits and Risks of Legal Wildlife Trade in the Amazon
The multimillion-dollar legal wildlife trade in species originating from Amazonian countries has been analyzed ...
On Paper, Brazilian Indians Live in the Best of the Worlds. In Reality, It’s Another Story
In a remote corner of far-western Brazil lies the Vale do Javari, home to ...
Meet Brazil’s Jungle Warriors, Ready to Survive and Fight Under the Amazon Trees
On September 20th, 86 students in the Jungle Operations Course (COS, per its Portuguese ...
Tired of Being Denied Territory, Amazon Peoples Are Drawing Their Own Maps
In 1707, a Jesuit missionary from the Czech Republic named Samuel Fritz published one ...
Brazil’s Unholy Alliance with the President to Privatize the Amazon
Brazilian de facto President Michel Temer’s decree 9142 abolishing the Amazon National Reserve of ...
