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Over the past twenty years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 54 million hectares of rainforest due to deforestation, primarily caused by illegal logging, mining, monoculture farming, and forest fires, among other activities promoted by extractive industries. Deforestation not only…
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A question we often get asked is: “Why is what you do better than other methods to protect rainforests? ”. The simple answer is, that it just makes sense. It’s fair to people and the “natural” world. Many of us…
The Awajún communities of Urakuza and Huaracayo steward over 18,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon rainforest. The schools of both communities actively engage in rainforest protection activities, strengthening the knowledge of children of all ages so that they can lead the…
Thanks to this community-led project, more than 1800 hectares of the rainforest could be protected. Huaracayo, inhabited by almost 600 members of the Awajún indigenous people in the Amazonas region, has decided, together with Cool Earth, to…
What are people on the ground doing to address environmental issues in Papua New Guinea? Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the most ecologically diverse countries on the planet, with an estimated 7% of the world’s…
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has a 15% lead in the polls ahead of President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the first round of elections due on October 2nd (Reuters) . If 50% of the vote isn’t secured by either…
Human rights violations? Mass deforestation? Environmental destruction? Bolsonaro’s presidency has jumped from one crisis to the next and, although current polls in a new election are currently against him, there is no doubt that significant damage has already been…
The latest report from Global Forest Watch shows tropical rainforests are in the midst of a recurring wildfire epidemic – news that isn’t new to us, or you. The global smoke alarm is sounding. The report (April ‘22)…
This week, Global Forest Watch released its annual analysis of 2021 tree cover loss in the Global Forest Review. We can’t sugarcoat it – the findings by Global Forest Watch are stark. Large areas of tropical and boreal forest that…
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