deforestation

The National Space Research Institute (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE) in Brazil reported that there have been a record 72,843 fires so far in the Amazon in 2019. The cause: deforestation.

Peru will become the second country in South America to ban palm oil production that produces deforestation, and it plans on achieving this by 2021.

After a process that lasted 8 years, the Prosecutor's Office in Environmental Matters in the Loreto region sanctioned a company for having illegally trafficked wood, which resulted in the deforestation of 2,000 hectares of natural forests in the Amazon.

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is being deforested a size of 3 American football fields per minute and it might be very difficult to recover, according to Intelligent Living.

The exploitation and destruction of the imposing shihuahuaco tree in the Peruvian Amazon continues amid failed attempts by conservation scientists to obtain protected status...

Deforestation in Peru has been consistently growing throughout the years and, according to official data, more than 1,500 square kilometers of forests have been...

Recently, an animation created from NASA satellite views showed how alarming the deforestation in Peru is and how fast it is escalating, leading to...

For the second time, the Ministry of the Environment of the Minam in Peru, denounced the American citizen Dennis Melka, founder of Cacao del...