"Three helicopters, a dozen vehicles and a heavily armed corps of police and environment rangers are carrying out the cattle drive, which criminal gangs attempted to block by setting fires on the route, destroying bridges and intimidating drivers." #AmazonForest

#Brazil launches biggest ever operation against illegal cattle farms in #Amazon | #DeForestration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/brazil-launches-biggest-operation-illegal-cattle-farms-amazon

"Representatives from $Bolivia, #Brazil, #Colombia, #Ecuador, #Guyana, #Peru, #Suriname and #Venezuela will join the two-day meeting of the #Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (#ACTO), which kicks off on Tuesday in the northern Brazilian city of Belem." *#ClimateCrisis #RainForests #DeForestration

Brazil hosting #AmazonSummit: What you need to know | Environment News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/7/brazil-hosting-amazon-summit-what-you-need-to-know

Encouraging: Deforestation in the Amazon has dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro. While the data is an encouraging sign for President Lula, who campaigned on pledges to rein in illegal logging, officials stressed that challenges remain. #Environment #Deforestration #ClimateCrisis https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deforestation-amazon-dropped-34-reversing-trend-bolsonaro-rcna92988?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_lw

Book: A perfect storm in the Amazon

"Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Chronicling the efforts of nine Amazonian countries to curb deforestation, this edition provides an overview of the topics most relevant to the conservation of the region’s biodiversity, ecosystem services and Indigenous cultures, as well as a description of the conventional and sustainable development models that are vying for space within the regional economy."

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/book-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/

#climatechange #climatejustice #Deforestration #Amazon #biodiversity #biodiversitydecline

More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-than-800m-amazon-trees-felled-in-six-years-to-meet-beef-demand

#climatechange #climatejustice #Deforestration #Amazon

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