Tag: Amazon
Venezuelan Armed Forces Destroy Illegal Mining Material in the Amazon
This happened as part of ‘Neblina 2024’, a security operation created to protect forest reserves and biosphere reserves. On Tuesday, Domingo Hernandez, the strategic operational commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), announced that his troops destroyed equipment used for illegal mining in the Carida sector in the state of Amazonas. RELATED: FANB Demands […]
August 21, 2024
Peru: Amazonian Indigenous Leader Mariano Isacama Found Dead
Human rights defenders recalled that 34 community leaders have been murdered since 2013. On Sunday, Mariano Isacama-Feliciano, an Indigenous leader of the Amazonian Kakataibo people, was found dead with signs of torture after being missing for 24 days. RELATED: Peruvian Minister Apologizes for Downplaying Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Minors The Peruvian Indigenous leader was known […]
July 15, 2024
Amazonas State Declares Emergency for 20 Municipalities Amid Severe Drought
The levels of the same in all the channels of the Amazon are below what expected for the period.
July 9, 2024
The Brazilian Amazon is Still Ravaged by Fires
Fire outbreaks cause concern as they occur even as Amazon deforestation continues to decline. In the first half of 2024, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) recorded 13,489 fire outbreaks in the Brazilian Amazon. RELATED: Indigenous Ecuadorians Demand to Eliminate Gas Torches in Amazon That figure is the highest one since 2004 and represents […]
July 2, 2024
Brazil’s Pantanal Wetland Lost 61 Percent of Its Aquatic Area
So far this year, the Pantanal has recorded 3,372 fire alerts, the highest number since 1998. On Wednesday, the scientific platform MapBiomas published a study showing that the Pantanal, a gigantic wetland that Brazil shares with Bolivia and Paraguay, lost 61 percent of its water surface due to drought and fires. RELATED: Fire Destroys 1,500 […]
June 26, 2024
Peruvian Minister Apologizes for Downplaying Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Minors
Over 500 teachers sexually abused Amazonian Indigenous girls and boys, many of whom were infected with HIV. On Thursday, Peruvian Education Minister Morgan Quero apologized for statements in which he described child rape cases in Indigenous communities in the Amazon as “cultural practices.” RELATED: Peruvian Court Condemns Soldiers Who Committed Crimes Against Humanity Last week, […]
June 20, 2024
Brazil’s Deforestation Drops 11.6 Percent in 2023
On Tuesday, monitoring network MapBiomas published a report showing that Brazil lost 1,829,597 hectares of native vegetation in 2023, which means a decrease of 11.6 percent in deforestation compared to 2022. RELATED: Brazil: Illegal Deforestation in the Amazon Fell by 63 Percent Two largest biomes, the Amazon and a tropical savanna known as “Cerrado,” accounted for […]
May 29, 2024
Canadian Mining Company to Explore in the Ecuadorian Amazon
On Tuesday, the Ecuadorian National Mining Company (ENAMI) announced a commercial agreement with the Canadian company Solaris Resources to explore 39,734 hectares in the Amazon jungle where it estimates that there is “great mining potential.” RELATED: UNICEF One of Every Two Children Ecuador Are Abused “The mining sector is moving and we are trying to […]
May 8, 2024
Lula and Petro Discuss Bilateral and Regional Issues in Bogota
On Wednesday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Colombian President Gustavo Petro met at the Nariño House in Bogota. RELATED: Colombia Suspends Bilateral Cabinet With Ecuador During their meeting, they addressed issues related to the bilateral trade and investment agenda, the protection of the Amazon, human rights defense, and cooperation in social programs and family […]
April 17, 2024
Brazilian Yanomami Indigenous Leader Meets With Pope Francis
On Wednesday, the leader of the Yanomami Indigenous people, Davi Kopenawa, met with Pope Francis and asked him to support Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s actions in favor of protecting the Indigenous territories at the Amazon basin. RELATED: Brazil Condemns Murder of World Central Kitchen Workers in Gaza “The Pope wanted to know my people’s […]