Official data show Amazon deforestation rose by almost 30% in the 12 months through July, to its worst level in 11 years. Pará state alone accounted for 40% of the loss, with a heat map of incidents ...

In 2009, he used LiDAR to map carbon stocks in more than 4.3 million hectares of Peruvian Amazon at a cost of just eight US cents per hectare. He did the same with 14 million hectares of Colombia ...

Selective logging to extract valuable timber is often the first step in deforestation, with the remaining forest then burned to clear land for agriculture. ($1 = 5.7052 reais) ...

Illegal logging is the first step in a vicious cycle that is resulting in the disappearance of the rainforest, Moira Birss, a campaign director for the California-based nonprofit Amazon Watch, said.

Logging goes against our principles and customs, not to mention the environmental impact,” Rocha said. “Here, nobody deforests, nobody degrades.

“In the Amazon Basin, around 20 per cent of the total forest area is used for timber production," writes lead author Dr. Camille Piponiot, a junior scientist at the University of French Guiana.

Amazon Business Health Amazon’s warehouses have more costly workplace injury claims than meatpacking or logging, Washington state says Oct. 21, 2020 at 6:01 am Updated Oct. 22, 2020 at 1:16 am ...

Dozens of Brazilian corporations are calling for a crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, expressing their concerns in a letter Tuesday, July 7, 2020, to the vice president, who ...

Selective forest cutting in the Amazon is on the rise, according to data released on Friday by the Brazilian government. Monthly deforestation alert data published by Brazil’s national space ...