After a significant drop in the last several years, the annual deforestation rates in Brazil raised 28% for the period August 2012-July 2013, according to INPE, the Brazilian Spatial Institute.
… Brazil deforestation up 28% The Ecologist | 16th … drop in the last several years, the annual deforestation rates in Brazil raised 28% for … 37% from 1,741 km2 to 2,379 km. For Roraima deforestation increased 49% from 124 km2 to …
High Street banking giant HSBC is bankrolling the destruction of rainforests essential for the survival of Bornean orangutans and other endangered species.
… HSBC loans drive deforestation and push orangutans to the brink … 2013 News Natural World Palm Oil Forests Deforestation Banks HSBC orang-utan-rescue.png … adopting polices to keep it from financing deforestation, the UK bank HSBC is a leading …
A sea change in attitudes to consumption and deforestation is happening worldwide, but will it be enough to save rainforests, asks Andrew Mitchell
… A sea change in attitudes to consumption and deforestation is happening worldwide, but will … agribusiness has become the greatest cause of deforestation in the tropics. ‘Forest risk … and pulp, and biofuels now drive some 80% of deforestation - not poor families cutting wood …
Water, food supplies and energy production are all in jeopardy as the Amazon forest is felled for profit. And as Paul Brown writes, the damage is spreading well beyond Amazonia itself ...
… and Uruguay. Last month it was reported that deforestation in Amazonia had increased by … "The loss of ecosystem services through deforestation undermines the securities and … mercury from gold-mining. "Large-scale deforestation is predicted to reduce rainfall …
One government department raises awareness about endangered species whilst another uses our fuel bills to contribute to their demise. Helen Buckland, Director of the Sumatran Orangutan Society, explains...
… How your fuel bills are subsidising deforestation Helen Buckland | 6th March 2013 … the industry in both countries is linked to deforestation, the destruction of peat-lands … China, and 80% of those emissions result from deforestation. DECC’s proposal is bringing …
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… government’s REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) deal in … REDD process is failing to mitigate ongoing deforestation in Kalimantan. In order to … – Indonesia's Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation pilot …
In a remote cloud forest in South America subsistence farmers are embracing an alternative to slash and burn.......
… for around 80 per cent of the world’s deforestation. At a high altitude on the … destruction. This makes it the second biggest deforestation driver after commercial … the potential to stop, and even reverse, the deforestation of thousands of hectares of land …
Andrew Mitchell highlights why we must recognise the true value of what our tropical rainforests provide for free.
… the conservation movement has failed to halt deforestation. The reasons are two-fold. … energy and health security for all of us. Deforestation is predicted to reduce rain in … Brazil’s beef industry, its primary cause of deforestation, needs rain for grass on which …
Thanks to climate change the southern Amazon rainforest is "drying out", say US researchers.
… and more fragmented forests caused by deforestation could eventually convert much of … Earlier studies have shown that human-caused deforestation in the Amazon can alter rainfall … south-western Amazon, while the most intense deforestation occurred in the south-east. …
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… 60% tree cover in 1923 and only 2% in 2006. Deforestation occurred in Haiti for many … of the fundamental problems resulting from deforestation. Locke was a student of forester …
Matt Adam Williams explains why yesterday's European Parliament vote will likely have environmentally negative impacts on the other side of the world.....
… now the single largest factor contributing to deforestation in Indonesia, and new research … ANALYSIS How your fuel bills are subsidising deforestation One government department raises …
"Most of the recently discovered plants and animals are thought to be endemic to small parts of the Amazon rainforest."
… makes them highly vulnerable to the threat of deforestation that's currently destroying … the project is finding alternatives to deforestation that can make the trees worth …
Palm oil is a key ingredient in everything from cereal, biscuits and margarine to shampoo, lipstick and toothpaste. Unless we curb our desire for it critical forests and wildlife habitat will be gone forever, says Dan Bucknell
… while the rest are contributing to deforestation. Products bearing the RSPO’s … and mining. It would also legitimise illegal deforestation that is already taking place. …
Western consumers are inadvertently driving the Sumatran elephant to extinction by eating, washing and wearing - in cosmetics - the derivatives of a fruit that is destroying the animal's last remaining forest habitat. Jim Wickens reports
The birthplace of Aristotle is being laid waste by a vast mining project, opening a rift in a cash-strapped society
The heavy price of Greek gold Jim Wickens | 25th July 2013 News Gold Mining Ecologist Film Unit News Politics And Economics greekgold.jpg The birthplace of Aristotle is being laid waste by a vast …
Lone Droscher Nielsen addressed the Oxfordshire village of Wootton about the deforestation that is pushing orangutans towards extinction - all driven by the world's hunger for palm oil. Andy Morgan was deeply moved ...
… the Oxfordshire village of Wootton about the deforestation that is pushing orangutans …
The Awá have been driven to the brink of extinction as waves of illegal loggers, settlers and ranchers have flooded their land. Toby Nicholas reports that there is hope on the horizon ...
… Awá do not exist. A ground operation against deforestation around the Awá’s land was …
Lorna Howarth examines a growing movement in urban planning that moves beyond preventative sustainable development to 'regenerative' development, aiming to counter some of the destruction urbanisation has wreaked on the planet....
… documentaries about rainforest medicines, deforestation and disappearing tribal …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline
Frontline Online: Sign the petition and help stop Ecocide? Lorna Howarth | 20th January 2013 News Ecocide Polly Higgins Climate Change ecocide eu.jpg The Law of Ecocide would create a legal duty of …
Sarah Ditty explains why she believes manufacturers and consumers should join the increasing numbers of us who are voting with our wallets and choose fashion that doesn't harm people or planet.......
… report Revealed: how our shoes are linked to deforestation and slavery in the Amazon Europe …
Last night Edd Colbert hosted a massive knees-up in Trafalgar Square, to ceremonially devour eight pigs raised entirely on edible food waste - a delicious launch to a very original campaign. He spoke to The Ecologist about his ideas ...
… does around two thirds of the maize we grow. Deforestation, biodiversity loss and …