Tag: Rainforest
Conservation: Rainforest: Nasa wants to expand cooperation with Brazil
natural reserve Rainforest: Nasa wants to expand cooperation with Brazil The Amazon – the world’s largest tropical rainforest. photo © Jens Büttner/dpa Nasa plans to partner more with Brazil to…
Deforestation: Hope grows in Brazil’s forests
Fewer trees are being felled in the Amazon region under President Lula than under his predecessor Bolsonaro. But so far it is only a regionally limited trend – the world…
Is the rainforest dying? – Politics
The importance of the Amazon rainforest for the planet and its inhabitants cannot be overestimated, scientists from various disciplines agree. Biologists emphasize the gigantic biodiversity of the area, which with…
Lula and Petro demand help protecting the rainforest
Status: 07/09/2023 03:44 am In the run-up to an Amazon summit in August, the presidents of Brazil and Colombia are emphatically united. Other states should catch up, they demand –…
Tropical jungle destroyed by area of Switzerland in 2022 – Knowledge
According to a report, around 4.1 million hectares of tropical jungle were destroyed worldwide in the past year. This means that forest with an area of Switzerland has been lost…
The equivalent of a football pitch of rainforest was destroyed every five seconds in 2022
In 2022, the virgin tropical forest lost the surface equivalent of the size of Switzerland or the Netherlands. These primordial ecosystems largely destroyed for agriculture and livestock, according to an…
Baerbock and Heil in Brazil: trading in cocoa and acai berries
report Status: 08.06.2023 8:52 a.m How can the people of the Amazon use the rainforest economically without destroying it? During their trip to Brazil, Foreign Minister Baerbock and Labor Minister…
Children rescued in the jungle: mother was probably still alive after the crash – Panorama
The mother of the children rescued from the Colombian rainforest is said to have been alive after the plane crash more than a month ago. “My eldest daughter told me…
Colombia: Four children rescued from rainforest – family overwhelmed
Colombia Four children rescued from rainforest – family overwhelmed Soldiers and indigenous men take care of the four siblings. photo © Uncredited/Colombia’s Armed Forces Press Office/AP/dpa There is a happy…
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest down by almost a third
President Lula wants to create additional protected areas Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest down by almost a third Since Brazilian President Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected, deforestation in the…