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FILE: Handout picture released by the Communication Department of the State of Mato Grosso showing deforestation in the Amazon basin in the municipality of Colniza, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, in August 2019. Picture: AFP

Deforestation

The Amazon: a paradise lost?

By AFP

Thanks to its lush vegetation and the miracle of photosynthesis, the Amazon basin has, until recently, absorbed large amounts of humankind's ballooning carbon...

  • FILE: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a press conference regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at the Planalto Palace, Brasilia. Picture: AFP

    Brazil's Bolsonaro accused of 'crimes against humanity' at ICC

    Austrian environmental justice campaigners Allrise filed the official complaint at The Hague-based court Tuesday morning.

    218 days ago
  • FILE: UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed the IPCC Working Group assessment report is a code red for humanity. Picture: Pixabay.com

    Govts urged to apply concerted efforts to cut back on greenhouse emissions

    The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has painted a bleak picture of where the world could be heading should governments not counter fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

    281 days ago
  • FILE: Handout picture released by the Communication Department of the State of Mato Grosso showing deforestation in the Amazon basin in the municipality of Colniza, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, in August 2019. Picture: AFP

    Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon surges to 12-year high

    Environmentalists say those policies fuel the destruction of the Amazon, about 60% of which is in Brazil.

    533 days ago
  • FILE: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a press conference regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at the Planalto Palace, Brasilia. Picture: AFP

    Brazil rejects deforestation concerns on EU-Mercosur deal

    France said Friday it was opposed to the yet-to-be-ratified deal, after a government-commissioned report blasted the accord as a "missed opportunity" to hold South American countries accountable for protecting the environment.

    602 days ago
  • FILE: Handout picture released by the Communication Department of the State of Mato Grosso showing deforestation in the Amazon basin in the municipality of Colniza, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, in August 2019. Picture: AFP

    World health leaders: 'Human activity to blame for diseases like COVID-19'

    Leaders from global health organisations say deforestation and the unregulated wildlife trade is to blame for diseases like COVID-19 being transmitted to humans.

    694 days ago
  • Prudence Mkonyo, a charcoal vendor in Zimbabwe, stands beside 50-kilogram polythene bags full of charcoal piled on top of each other as she sells her wares at Mbare Musika Market in Harare in November 2019. Picture: AFP

    Zimbabwe turns to charcoal for cooking as power outages bite

    For many lower-income urbanites, firewood and charcoal have become the go-to sources of substitute energy - and rogue logging is the result.

    904 days ago
  • FILE: This picture taken on 22 August 2019 shows Indonesian firefighters battling a forest fire in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra. Picture: AFP

    Indonesia arrests nearly 200 over raging forest fires

    On Monday, authorities said they had arrested some 185 people suspected of being involved in activities that led to out-of-control fires sweeping the country.

    975 days ago
  • This picture taken on 22 August 2019 shows Indonesian firefighters battling a forest fire in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra. Picture: AFP

    Hundreds of schools shut as forest-fire haze blankets SE Asia

    Massive jungle areas in Sumatra and Borneo island are ablaze as thousands of personnel battle to quell the fires, frequently started to clear land for crop plantations.

    981 days ago
  • While illegal loggers are absent, forest guides armed with paddles or bows and arrows take the opportunity to inspect and destroy their makeshift village, consisting of about twenty huts, in the heart of the Vohibola forest near the village of Manambato, Madagascar, on 24 March 2019. Picture: AFP

    Madagascar forest destruction wiping out our tiniest relative

    Frustrated conservationists hope Friday’s arrival of the environmentally-conscious Pope Francis will spotlight the island that lost 2% of primary rainforest last year, the highest of any tropical nation.

    985 days ago
  • Graphic showing fires that have been detected in South American countries so far this year. Picture: AFP

    Fires across South America in 2019 so far

    Graphic showing fires that have been detected in South American countries so far this year.

    995 days ago
  • View of a burnt area after a fire in the Amazon rainforest near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on 25 August 2019 Brazil on Sunday deployed two C-130 Hercules aircraft to douse fires devouring parts of the Amazon rainforest, as hundreds of new blazes were ignited and a growing global outcry over the blazes sparks protests and threatens a huge trade deal. Picture: AFP

    UK pledges £10 mn for fire-ravaged Amazon

    The money would be made available immediately to help restore the habitat, including areas that have been hit by the fires, the British government said in a statement released at the G7 summit in the French resort of Biarritz.

    996 days ago
  • Picture: pixabay.com

    Tropical forest the size of England destroyed in 2018 - report

    The pace of the loss is staggering, the equivalent of 30 football fields disappearing every minute of every day, or 12 million hectares a year.

    1119 days ago
  • Picture: pixabay.com

    7 secrets that forests are keeping from you

    Forests play a key role in our lives that we don’t even recognise. Here are 7 ways how and some of their best kept secrets.

    1366 days ago
  • Picture: Freeimages.com

    2017 was the second-worst year on record for tropical tree loss

    Despite concerted efforts to reduce tropical deforestation, tree cover loss has been rising steadily in the tropics over the past 17 years.

    1415 days ago
  • FILE: The world has lost forests the size of South Africa over the past 25 years. Picture: Andrew Hall/Wikimedia Commons.

    FAO: World loses South Africa-sized forest area in 25 years

    A growing global population and increased demand for food and land are driving deforestation.

    2445 days ago
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