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Climate strikes the Amazon, undermining protection efforts
Fires raged across the Amazon rainforest, annihilating more than 4.6 million hectares of primary tropical forest—the most biodiverse and carbon-dense type of forest on Earth. That loss, which is larger than the size of Denmark, was more than twice the annual average between 2014 and 2023, according to data released last month by World Resources […]
2024 was a sad year for forests and biodiversity in the world. The data published a few days ago by the World Resources Institute, produced by the University of Maryland, are chilling. Tropical developing countries lead the drama, in their context of poverty and institutional weakness. 94% of deforestation on the planet occurs in tropical countries, in which in 2024 the terrible figure of 6.7 million hectares of primary tropical forest destroyed…
Environmental Policy, Climate Emergency and Inequalities in the Amazon
The current period is one of unprecedented historical inflection, in which the destiny of the Amazon is irreversibly intertwined with the destiny of the planet. One of the challenges in this context is the need to overcome the colonial imaginary of the Amazon. It is...
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