Brazil and the Amazon Forest
The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest intact forest. It is home to more than 24 million people in Brazil alone, including hundreds of thousands of ...
Brazil holds approximately 60 percent of the Amazon within its borders. How many species does the Amazon Rainforest contain? The Amazon Rainforest is the ...
The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon ...
Not only does the Amazon encompass the single largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world, it also houses at least 10% of the world's known ...
Brazil Amazon Rainforest - Rainforest Foundation US
For over 35 years, Rainforest Foundation US has supported Brazil's Indigenous peoples in defending their rights and territories across the Amazon rainforest ...
How to visit the Amazon rainforest in Brazil: A complete guide · Jungle walk: · Canoe or boat tour: · Giant Amazon water lilies: · The beaches ...
These satellite images show the deforestation of a 134,000 square km. area of the Brazilian state of Rondônia, on the frontier of the Amazon rain forest. The ...
Between 2001 and 2020, the Amazon lost over 54.2 million hectares, or almost 9% of its forests, an area the size of France. The Brazilian Amazon ...
Occupying much of Brazil and Peru, and also parts of Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana, and Venezuela, the Amazon River Basin is ...
Nearly the size of the continental United States, the Amazon spans nine countries (Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, ...
The Amazon covers a huge area (6.7 million sq km) of South America. Nearly 60% of the rainforest is in Brazil, while the rest is shared among ...
Brazil can halt deforestation in the Amazon while continuing to grow its economy across all major sectors, from agriculture and livestock production to clean ...
Large-scale deforestation of the Amazon began in the 1960s, but it has accelerated under Bolsonaro, reaching a fifteen-year high in 2021. Since ...
Rainforest Trust's Brazilian Amazon Fund supports implementation of our Amazon Strategy focused on Brazil and including neighboring regions. Rainforest Trust's ...
Brazil's new president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is decidedly against this development, and new data shows that Amazon deforestation is falling dramatically ...
Inside the Amazon Rainforest: Part 1 | Brazil Travel - YouTube
A unique travel documentary staying in the Amazon jungle on the Amazon River. Join us in the epic first of this 2 part adventure into the ...
Between 2001 and 2012, forest losses in the Amazon biome averaged about 1.4 million hectares per year, totaling 17.7 million hectares, mostly in ...
The Amazon rainforest covers an enormous 6.7 million square kilometres. Spanning 8 countries and one overseas territory in South America and ...
Brazil's national development bank (BNDES) on Saturday launched an effort to restore degraded or destroyed woodland amounting to 60000 ...
Amazon Forest Code | The Nature Conservancy
In 1965, Brazil created and passed its first Forest Code, a law requiring landowners in the Amazon to maintain 35 to 80 percent of their property under native ...