Deforestation
Environmental Issue
Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight...most of whom make a living off jungle clearing. They say it worked: Novo Progresso has since dropped off the list of top deforesters. Critics say Brazil's increased enforcement is not behind the dramatic drop in deforestation. In this article: Deforestation, Brazil, Cattle, Sustainable development, and Carbon |
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AP Online | 22 hours ago
Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who...
In this article: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil, Global warming, Nicolas Sarkozy, Copenhagen, Tax, Climate change, and Carlos Minc
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New Kerala | 6 days ago
Computer model predicts future deforestation in Congo Basin rainforest
...reward rainforest nations for protecting their forests, a mechanism dubbed REDD for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation . Deforestation rates in the Congo Basin rainforest the second-largest rainforest on Earth have...
In this article: Biofuel, EU, United Nations, Laxenburg, and Central Africa
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TIME | November 15, 2009
On the Copenhagen Agenda, Reducing Deforestation May Still Succeed
By Bryan Walsh Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 A deforested area of rain forest in southern Para state, Brazil. This month, the journal Nature Geoscience published a study calculating that deforestation is responsible for about 15% of global...
In this article: Carbon, Copenhagen, Brazil, Climate change, Nature Geoscience, Beneficiary, Fossil fuel, Loss of habitat, and Endangered species
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | November 13, 2009
Brazil deforestation drops to lowest level since 1980s
On the eve of vital climate change talks in Copenhagen, Brazil has announced a reduction in Amazon deforestation to its lowest level since the 1980s. By Andrew Downie in Sao Paulo Published: 7:00PM GMT 13 Nov 2009 Some 7,008 square...
In this article: Brazil, Climate change, Carbon dioxide, Copenhagen, Cattle, Adidas, Nike, Tesco, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs
...of forest were cleared during the 12-month period, the lowest rate since the government started monitoring deforestation in 1988. "The new deforestation data represents an extraordinary and significant reduction for Brazil," President Luiz...
In this article: Brazil, Conservation International, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Amazon region, Brasilia, and Mississippi River
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BBC News | November 12, 2009
'Big drop' in Amazon deforestation
Brazil's disappearing rainforests have been a concern for decades The level of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped by 45% and is the lowest on record since monitoring began 21 years ago, Brazil's government says. According to the...
In this article: Climate change, Greenpeace, Copenhagen, Brazil, Carbon, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Sao Paulo
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Deforestation is the logging and/or burning of trees in a forested area. There are several reasons deforestation occurs: trees or derived charcoal can be sold as a commodity and used by humans, while cleared land is used as pasture, plantations of commodities and human settlement. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss and aridity. Deforested regions often degrade into wasteland.
Disregard or ignorance of intrinsic value, lack of ascribed value, lax forest management and deficient environmental law are some of the factors that allow deforestation to occur on a large scale. In many countries, deforestation is an ongoing issue that is causing extinction, changes to climatic conditions, desertification, and displacement of indigenous people.
However, among countries with a per capita GDP of at least $4,600, net deforestation rates have ceased to increase.
thumb|Orbital photograph of human deforestation in progress in the Tierras Bajas project in eastern Bolivia.
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