Brazil Amazon

• Here’s how Brazil plans to end Amazon deforestation by 2030

  The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon sets a coordinated policy across more than a dozen ministries through the end of Lula's term in 2027.

  Environment

  Jun 5, 2023
  
• Amazon rainforest deforestation down 11 per cent from last year, report says

  The Amazon rainforest is the most biodiverse forest in the world, and the home of tribes that have lived in the forest for thousands of years, some of them living in isolation.

  World

  Nov 30, 2022
  
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• Brazil forest fire season begins with concerns of mass destruction

  The government space agency that uses satellites to monitor fires reported more area burned in the month of July than in any July since 2016.

  World

  Aug 5, 2021
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• Rainfall could take weeks to extinguish Amazon rainforest fires, experts say

  The fires are not limited to Brazil, with at least 10,000 square kilometers (about 3,800 square miles) burning in Bolivia near its border with Paraguay and Brazil.

  Environment

  Aug 27, 2019