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In the last six years, 800 million trees have been cut down to satisfy the world's hunger for meat

The Jagalingou Aboriginal tribe in Australia, the indigenous communities of the Philippines and the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon.A article by DW told how these groups are fighting to preserve their territories.All over the world, indigenous peoples must fight for their fundamental rights.The defense of their rights coincides with better protection of the environment and climate.However, although they are considered custodians of natural resources, indigenous tribes often face repression, discrimination and mass racism. And they pay with their lives. Between 2012 and 2021, human rights groups and organizations documented the deaths of more than 1,700 environmental and land defenders in approximately 60 countries.According to data published by the environmental and human rights organization Global Witness, more than 35% of those killed were indigenous. At the heart of conflicts are often large mining projects, agricultural logging, reservoir dams and oil, gas and coal extraction...

The era of global warming is over and "the era of global boiling has arrived", according to the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres.“Climate change is here.It's terrifying.And it's just the beginning," Guterres said.“It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C [compared to pre-industrial levels] and avoid the worst of climate change.But only with immediate climate action." Guterres' words came after climate scientists confirmed that the last three weeks have been the warmest since recorded and that July is on track to be the warmest month on record. The extreme meteorological phenomena that are affecting the entire Mediterranean, increasingly hotter, fires and what we are not doing to prevent them.If we needed further manifestations of the effects of the climate crisis, we are experiencing them first-hand. At all latitudes, from the far west to Japan.Yet, just a few days ago the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, he spoke of "difficult b...

More than 30% of Ecuador's current total surface area has been impacted by human activity, and much of this loss has come at the expense of the Amazon rainforest, this is the summary of a long relationship produced by the Ecuadorian environmental NGOs EcoCiencia and MapBiomas Ecuador together with other independent researchers.The research also records the reduction of glaciers and changes in land cover triggered by the expansion of capitalist activities such as agriculture, forestry, mining and oil extraction that have affected the country from the coast to the Andes.The researchers analyzed and compared satellite images taken between 1985 and 2022, finding that Ecuador lost 1.16 million hectares of natural land cover during this period.To understand the order of magnitude, it is an area slightly larger than the entire Abruzzo region, a very large surface area for a country like Ecuador, which is smaller than Italy. In the Ecuadorian Amazon, themining activity – especially...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is growing falling for the eighth consecutive month.THE data, published by the National Space Research Institute (INPE) of Brazil, highlight how in November the deforestation amounted to 201 square kilometers, with a cumulative loss that in the last 12 months amounts to 5,206 square kilometers, 51% less compared to the figure noted during the same period last year.Since January 2023, deforestation has reached 4,977 square kilometers, marking a significant reduction compared to last year.Of course, the forest surface continues to decrease, still prey to timber and raw materials companies that cut it down, but the pace has dropped significantly thanks to the new protection measures implemented by the Brazilian government, the first step towards a reversal trend that now appears possible;also in light of President Lula's commitment to completely stamp out the business and criminal organizations that operate in the illegal deforestation of the forest w...