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Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary #forest in Brazilian protected area.
Deforestation in the region is largely driven by cattle ranching, land grabbing and mining, with invaders emboldened by the rhetoric and policies of the current government.https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/pasture-replaces-large-tract-of-intact-primary-forest-in-brazilian-protected-area/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652472615-1
In honour of #UNCCDCOP15 and #BiodiversityDay on 22 May, discover how we can act #ForNature by protecting and restoring our #forests.
#GBO5 names a sustainable land and forest transition as one of 8 transitions needed to achieve the vision of living in harmony with #nature. 🌲🌱
Amazon #rainforest loss fuelled by destruction around roads.
🪵In the Amazon, some roads have been paved for the first time, making the #forest easier to access and chop down, researchers find.
https://www.ft.com/content/d57eeb32-258f-4b7c-896f-1c99ffe5e48f
🌱 Investing in small farmers, #agroecology critical to get us out of current food crisis.
Investing in small farmers, agroecology critical to get us out of current food crisis
Already battered by the climate crisis and COVID-19, Africa is now facing rising food prices in light of the war...
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🌴 In Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous lands stop #deforestation and boost recovery.
Via @Mongabay
In Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous lands stop deforestation and boost recovery
Protected areas and lands managed by Indigenous and traditional communities have been bulwarks of forest preservation ...
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🚩 EU must hold ‘guilty’ companies to account in #Amazon, says indigenous leader.
EU must hold ‘guilty’ companies to account in Amazon, says indigenous leader
One year ago, Maria Leusa Kaba Munduruku’s home was burned by miners. She’s in Europe asking for help.
www.politico.eu
🔴 Illegal miners bring sexual violence and disease to Indigenous reserve in Brazil.
A new investigative report shows that Brazil’s largest #Indigenous reserve is experiencing the most intense spate of invasions by illegal miners in 30 years.
Illegal miners bring sexual violence and disease to Indigenous reserve in Brazil
Illegal miners operating insider the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon are coercing Indigenous girls...
news.mongabay.com
🔴 The EU wants to increase the production of #biomethane to end dependence on Russian gas.
🌽 But a new report highlights the risk that a large part will have to be contributed via cultivated #biomass, which would take up 5% of the total arable land in the EU.
#REPowerEU ⤵️
The pattern is clear: First, the forest is razed. Then the cattle are moved in. If the Amazon is to die, it will be beef that kills it.
This is how Americans' love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest. https://wapo.st/3y33DwP
🚩 Two new reports tie soy giant Bunge to land-grabbing, illegal #deforestation and human rights abuses in the Brazilian Cerrado.
Read more⤵️ via @foe_us
Reports Tie Soy Giant to Land-Grabbing, Illegal Deforestation in Brazil
Friends of the Earth U.S., The Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil show that Bunge continues to drive deforestation.
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🔥Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C #climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns.
Check out the @guardian's new Carbon Bombs series⤵️
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/carbon-bombs-2022.
🌳"If we are serious about preventing climate breakdown, we should stop fawning over politicians making #treeplanting pledges every year on the International Day of Forests and focus our attention on preventing #deforestation".
Empty pledges to plant more trees will not save the Congo Basin
More needs to be done to protect the world’s second-largest rainforest – and secure our collective future.
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