Deforestazione

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...

Meat, coffee, chocolate, palm oil and wood are among the products that will end up at the center of the controls provided for by the regulation approved by the European Parliament

Achieving the goal of restoring 12 million hectares of native Brazilian vegetation by 2030, as established by the Paris climate agreement, will not be an easy task, especially in the absence of a solid government program that goes in this direction .However it is thanks to the precious work of seed collectors, who discovered that planting them instead of saplings makes the reforestation process more efficient and solid, that the hope of reaching the goal is still alive. A technique that the natives have proven to be the most suitable for help young trees survive drought and make the most of the space available:sowing allows you to plant approximately ten times more trees per hectare compared to the use of seedlings, halving the costs.The efforts of seed collectors are focusing above all on Cerrado area, a territory of savannahs and forests that covers more than 20% of Brazil and a small part of Paraguay and Bolivia and which houses species of flora and fauna that cannot be found elsewh...

More or less a year ago, on 15 June 2022, the lifeless bodies of the journalist from Guardian, Dom Phillips, and Bruno Pereira, the Brazilian expert from the body for the protection of indigenous peoples.They had disappeared about ten days earlier in the Yavarí valley, in the Amazon forest, during a trip to investigate the exploitation of the forest and the growing threats to which indigenous populations are subjected. Brazil, journalist Dom Phillips and activist Bruno Pereira killed while investigating illegal exploitation of the Amazon A year later, their killings appear to be increasingly linked to the interests of groups dedicated to illegal activities that the two were investigating.The Yavarí valley – one of the most isolated places on the planet, a reserve of 85 thousand square kilometers covered by the Amazon forest, without roads, where you can move by navigating the river and within which approximately 23 indigenous groups live who have no externa...