Quito, October 9 (IANS): Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has called for greater international cooperation to protect the Amazon through the sustainable use of biodiversity in the world's largest tropic
BRASILIA, October 9 (Reuters): Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in September for the third straight month compared to a year ago, government data showed on Friday, but destruction remai
MANAUS, Brazil, October 9 (Reuters): Samela Sateré-Mawé, a 24-year-old biology student, has one guiding belief - if the rainforest dies so will her Amazon tribe.
"Indigenous people ar
MADRE DE DIOS, Peru, September 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Speeding over to a muddy bank of Peru's Madre de Dios river in a motorboat, Karina Garay pointed to a small wooden structure.
"Bi
Residents of the Middle Juruá Extractive Reserve worry that less rain could decimate livelihoods and leave them at risk of forest fires
CARAUARI, Brazil, August 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
STOCKHOLM, JULY 21 (IANS): Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has said she will donate 100,000 euros ($114,000) to help tackle the spread of the coronavirus in the Amazon rainforest.
Thunberg announced
BRASILIA, June 3 (Reuters): Brazilian states are bolstering the fight against destruction of the Amazon rainforest with millions of dollars from an oil company's corruption settlement that allows them