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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year
Deforestation in Brazil's vast savannah, known as the Cerrado, decreased by 25.7%, the first decline in five years. The area ...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest falls to lowest since 2015
BRASILIA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in the 12 months through July compared to the same ...
Brazil's Amazon posts lowest deforestation in nine years: govt
The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula ...
Christian Science Monitor19h
Brazil’s president promised to protect the Amazon. This year, deforestation fell 31%.
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Reuters3d
Brazil prepares to remove illegal Amazon gold miners from Munduruku land
The Munduruku reservation has the second-most illegal mining in Brazil, according to a report seen by Reuters from government agency Censipam, which manages operations protecting the Amazon.
Bloomberg L.P.17d
The Amazon’s Relentless Poverty Cycle
In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...
Mongabay4d
Brazil researchers boost timber traceability with new chemical analysis
“Brazil is one of the best countries in the ... adding she believes this large database will be ready within four years. “The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and the eyes ...
ABC News11d
Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle
Brazil's environmental agency levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking and their suppliers companies for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested land in the Amazon ...