President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest — the planet’s largest intact temperate rainforest — to logging and other corporate development projects
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Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year #PrayForAmazonia
Wildfires often occur in the dry season in Brazil but they are also deliberately started in efforts to illegally deforest land for cattle ranching.
An unprecedented legal victory for indigenous rights in Ecuador
On October 22nd 2018, the Kofan people of Sinangoe in the Ecuadorian Amazon won a landmark legal battle to protect the headwaters of the Aguarico River…
U.S. Accuses Peru of Violating Agreement to Protect Rain Forest
The United States is accusing Peru of violating its commitment to protect the Amazon rain forest from deforestation …
Amazon rainforest deforestation ‘worst in 10 years’, says Brazil
About 7,900 sq km (3,050 sq miles) of the world’s largest rainforest was destroyed between August 2017 and July 2018 – an area roughly five times the size of London.
Soy trade war could destroy millions hectares of rainforest
The Amazon rainforest could be the greatest casualty of the trade war between the United States and China, warns a new study showing how deforestation pressures
Ecuador will clean the Amazon
Ecuador will clean areas of its Amazon region that were polluted decades ago by Texaco in a move criticized by activists who fear too little will be done.