Amazon
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Environment
Environment BrazilPeople in the Amazon Collect Tree Seeds to Help Reforestation – and Make Cash, Too
Anyone contributing in the destruction of Brazil’s Amazon forests is required to replant an equivalent number of trees elsewhere. Indigenous groups are helping fulfill this “huge demand for seed”, boosting both their income and their food security.
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Society
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Technology
Technology BrazilIndigenous Tribe Uses Drones to Catch Land Grabbers in the Rainforest
The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, an indigenous tribe in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, have begun operating drones in January a drive to spot illegal loggers and land grabbers – and they immediately found a deforested site that they otherwise wouldn’t have noticed.
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Environment ColombiaGuess Who Has the Lowest Carbon Footprint in the Amazon?
Researchers have revealed that areas protected by indigenous peoples and local communities release the least amount of carbon emissions in South America’s Amazon rainforest – accounting for merely 10% of all the emissions in the region!
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Heroes
Heroes PeruGoT Star Goes Deep Into the Endangered Rain Forest, Says: “There Is Hope”
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Nikolaj Coster-Waldau recently traveled to Peru with the UN agency on an investigative mission: uncovering the root of the fires in the Amazon, and what can be done to prevent future devastations.
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Environment
EnvironmentOnline Retail Giant Plants Trees, Buys E-Vans, Wants All Renewable in Ten Years
The world's largest online retailer Amazon has recently announced its order of 100,000 electric trucks – the largest light-duty electric vehicle purchase ever made – from US-based startup Rivian, as part of its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, ten years ahead of the Paris…
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Environment“Be Good to Us to Help The Forest”, Indigenous Tribes Ask Amazon Countries
Leaders in the Amazon – including the presidents of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru – have joined the indigenous peoples at a summit held in Leticia, Colombia to sign a conservation pact focused on protecting the rainforest.