A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

A report by the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG) claims that 26% of Amazon forests have transformed irreversibly and show high levels of degradation.

In 2021 alone, nearly 2 million hectares of primary forest — the most ecologically significant forests on Earth for carbon storage — were lost across the region, according to the Monitoring of the ...

Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes of the Cerrado, spanning nine states—is more than 5 million square ...

Yet deforestation there rose by 275% in 2024 (albeit from a low base) owing to wildfires and illegal gold mining. Against climate change, even the best intentions can be easily dashed.

The Negro River drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world's sixth largest by water volume. ... DEFORESTATION IN BRAZIL INCREASED 30% IN 12 MONTHS, AGENCY SAYS .

An investigation by environmental nonprofit Earthsight said the Tapestry-owned brand is at risk of sourcing leather linked to ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year ... The basin also holds about 20% of the world’s fresh water and biodiversity includes 16,000 known tree species.

Fany Kuiru, who is head of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), said: “We’re looking at (the bioeconomy) as products that are unique, that come from ...

In 2023, the Amazon basin suffered its most severe drought in at least 45 years ... President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pledged to halt deforestation completely by 2030.