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Worried About Biodiversity? End Industrial Activity in the Rainforest

Worried About Biodiversity? End Industrial Activity in the Rainforest

By Lamfu Fabrice Yengong and Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue Biodiversity loss is a global crisis. In May last year, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warned that over 1,000,000 species are threatened with extinction worldwide. On May 22, the International Day of Biodiversity, it is important to recall the silent victims of […]

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    Brazil’s Bolsonaro Unveils Bill to Open Indigenous Lands to Mining, Oil and Gas Exploration

    Brazil’s Bolsonaro Unveils Bill to Open Indigenous Lands to Mining, Oil and Gas Exploration

    By Jan Rocha President Jair Bolsonaro pressed forward with a “dream” initiative sending a bill to the Brazilian Congress on Wednesday that would open indigenous reserves in the Amazon and elsewhere to development, including commercial mining, oil and gas exploration, cattle ranching and agribusiness, new hydroelectric dam projects, and tourism — projects that have been […]

    2 Butterfly Defenders Found Dead Within a Week in Mexico

    2 Butterfly Defenders Found Dead Within a Week in Mexico

    Two men connected to a famous monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico have been found dead within a week of each other, raising concerns for the safety of environmental activists in the country. Homero Gómez González, 50, who managed a butterfly reserve in Mexico’s Michoacán state and campaigned against illegal logging in the butterflies’ winter habitat, […]

    Koalas Found ‘Massacred’ at Logging Site

    Koalas Found ‘Massacred’ at Logging Site

    Australia‘s iconic koalas cannot catch a break. Nearly one third of the koalas in the state of New South Wales may have died in the country’s devastating wildfire season, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC). And now, reports have emerged that dozens of the animals were killed at a timber plantation in the state […]

    Trump Admin Manipulated Wildfire Science to Encourage Logging

    Trump Admin Manipulated Wildfire Science to Encourage Logging

    Respecting scientists has never been a priority for the Trump Administration. Now, a new investigation from The Guardian revealed that Department of the Interior political appointees sought to play up carbon emissions from California’s wildfires while hiding emissions from fossil fuels as a way to encourage more logging in the national forests controlled by the […]

    Illegal Loggers Murder Amazon Forest Guardian

    Illegal Loggers Murder Amazon Forest Guardian

    Illegal loggers shot and killed an indigenous defender of Brazil‘s Amazon rainforest, the Guajajara tribe announced Saturday, as Reuters reported. Paulo Paulino Guajajara, in his 20s, was a member of the Guajajara group Guardians of the Forest, which was formed in 2012 to protect the Araribóia reservation in Brazil’s Maranhão state. In an interview with […]