The deforestation in Colombia and the Amazon skyrocketed in the first quarter of this year with an increase of 40% and reached a “historic peak”as reported this Monday by the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad. In the presentation of the balance of Early Deforestation Warnings, the minister said that this figure contrasts […]
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Indigenous women fight climate crisis by saving bees in southern Mexico
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indigenous women have adopted new agroecological techniques to fight against climate crisis and save the bees in the southeast Mexico, country with 2,000 species of these insects, 10% of the diversity in the world, according to researchers from the Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Ecosur). Beekeepers from Chalchiuitán, in the state of Chiapas, have adopted […]
Climate change: the Amazon is in mortal danger and could disappear by 2050
Half of the Amazon could suffer irreversible alterations and even disappear by 2050, concludes an international team of researchers after evaluating the critical thresholds that can cause profound changes in the region and push the largest tropical forest in the world to a point of “no return” that will impact the global climate Land. The […]
Colombia creates a fund that will have US$ 981 million to protect the environment
Colombia created a fund for the protection of ecosystems and the transformation of the environment that will manage resources for about 4 billion pesos (US$ 981 million) by 2026, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development announced on Thursday. The so-called Fund for Life and Biodiversity will seek to strengthen and finance projects and programs […]
Amazon deforestation falls 22.3% in 12 months to July
The deforestation in the Amazon Brazil’s rainforest slowed 22.3% in the 12 months to July, government data showed on Thursday, showing the smallest devastated area in the world’s largest rainforest since 2018. Around 9,001 square kilometers of the jungle were cut down between August 2022 and July of this year, according to data from the […]
Brazil deforested an area twice the size of Germany in 38 years
Brazil deforested in the last 38 years about 96 million hectares of native vegetation, an area equivalent to 2.5 times the size of Germanymost in the amazonaccording to a study released this Thursday by the MapBiomas platform. In the largest tropical forest on the planet alone, the area converted for some human use, such as […]
IDB and World Bank join forces to protect the Amazon and make the Caribbean resilient
He Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank (WB) signed this Thursday a memorandum of understanding to work in the fight against deforestation of the Amazonthe strengthening of the Caribbean in the face of natural disasters and the reduction of the digital divide in Latin America. The agreement was signed at the IDB headquarters […]
Lula calls on rich countries to finance the preservation of the Amazon
The Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvacalled on Wednesday developed countries to “place money” on the table to preserve the amazonat the close of a regional summit that ended without any ambitious commitment to end the deforestation. “We are not the countries Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela… those of us who need money, it is nature […]
Amazon countries determined to preserve their rainforest amid climate crisis
The eight countries of the Organization of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (OTCA) they decided on Saturday in Leticia, Colombiapromote urgent measures to preserve the rain forest biggest in the world. “What is done in one corner of South America has repercussions in another. That’s why our cooperation is so important.” said the president of Brazil, […]
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is reduced under Lula’s government
After four years of increasing destruction in the brazilian amazonthe deforestation fell 33.6% during the first six months of the president’s term Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaaccording to government satellite data released Thursday. From January to June, the rainforest had alerts for possible deforestation covering 2,650 square kilometers (1,023 square miles), compared with 4,000 square […]