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By Claire Asher The Amazon’s most fertile, productive forests, which are critical for supplying Brazil’s agricultural region with rainfall, are also the most vulnerable to drought, according to recent research that has mapped drought resilience across the basin. An international team of researchers analyzed 20 years of satellite data to understand why some forests might be more resilient to drought than others and focused on the underlying mechanisms behind different responses of forests across the basin. The study, published in Nature, used water-table depth, soil fertility and tree height to...
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From January to mid-July, Slovakian authorities and hunters alike killed more than three dozen bears, leading to uproar among ecologists and activists. The authorities shot 30 so-called "problematic" bears, and hunters were allowed to hunt down another 11, Milan Boroš, the general director of Slovakia's State Nature Conservancy office, has announced. Last year, a series of attacks, some of them deadly, led to calls to reassess the protected status of bears in Slovakia and more widely across Central and Eastern Europe. Now, Slovakia’s far-right environment minister, Tomáš Taraba, wants to ensur...
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By Maxwell Radwin The lead up to Venezuela’s presidential election, scheduled for this Sunday, July 28, hasn’t been about the candidates’ experience or the viability of their policies. The focus has been on whether the elections will look anything close to free and fair. Critics have expressed concern about the disqualification of opposition candidates and the absence of outside electoral observers. President Nicolás Maduro is running for a third consecutive term despite overwhelming opposition to his regime, which came to power in 2013 as the successor to Hugo Chávez. This time around, Maduro...
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Climate change is increasing the susceptibility of the world's forests to stressors such as wildfires and pests, according to a new publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Committee on Forestry (COFO), the FAO’s top forestry governing body, was tasked with identifying emerging policy and technical issues, seeking solutions, and advising the FAO on appropriate action. The resulting report reveals the vulnerability of forests worldwide and emphasises the role of innovation in achieving a sustainable future for the forestry sector. Climate change is m...
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By Maxwell Radwin A lawsuit has temporarily stalled construction on a controversial highway project in north-central Panama, which allegedly bypassed environmental regulations and could damage several protected areas along the Caribbean coast. The highway, known as the “Caribbean Corridor,” is supposed to travel 28.4 kilometers (17.6 miles) from the towns of Quebrada Ancha to María Chiquita, with the goal of increasing tourism and local commerce on the coast of Colón province. But the highway would also pass by three protected areas and didn’t carry out adequate studies to make sure they won’t...
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Bogotá (AFP) - Colombia's Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled a controversial carbon credit deal in the Amazon rainforest, which six local tribes said had been signed without their consent. Indigenous communities living in the remote area of Pira Parana had accused US-based Ruby Canyon Environmental and Colombian company Masbosques, which acted as an intermediary, of illegally foisting the deal on them. Carbon credits are bought by corporations -- or countries under certain conditions -- from forest preservation or other projects to offset or "compensate" their greenhouse gas emissions....
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — NGOs working with Indonesian smallholder farmers have developed a set of guidelines aimed at helping oil palm farmers prove that their products are deforestation-free, allowing them a foothold in markets increasingly demanding sustainably produced goods. Launched on June 24, the deforestation-free smallholder toolkit, the first of its kind, is a participatory step-by-step guide for smallholder groups to protect their forests and cultivate their lands in a sustainable manner. To implement the toolkit, smallholders will have to go through six steps, beginning with...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm’s violations appear to be more extensive than initially documented. The report alleges that subsidiaries of PT Astra Agro Lestari (AAL) are cultivating oil palms illegally inside forest areas; intimidating and criminalizing local community members; and operating without the required permits. The report by Friends of the Earth U.S. and its Indonesian and Dutch counterparts, Walhi and Milieudefensie, respectively,...
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Bangkok (AFP) - L'activité minière en Indonésie, et en particulier l'extraction de charbon, a provoqué la destruction de quelque 721.000 hectares de forêts entre 2001 et 2023, selon une nouvelle étude s'appuyant sur des images prises par satellite. Diffusée cette semaine, l'étude de The TreeMap, une start-up spécialisée dans la protection de l'environnement, a utilisé des images à haute résolution prises par plusieurs satellites et deux décennies de données issues du programme américain d'observation de la surface terrestre Landsat, pour cartographier les mines et suivre la déforestation. Selo...
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By Liz Kimbrough A larger portion of the Amazon Rainforest might be under protection than official records indicate, according to a new study00134-9) published in the journal One Earth. A team of international researchers found that more than 40% of land across the nine Amazonian countries is under some form of conservation management, significantly higher than the 28% reported in official records. To arrive at this number, the authors looked beyond traditional protected areas such as national parks and nature reserves. They gathered information from scientific papers, legal documents and loca...
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