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Race to save the Amazon leaves out Brazil's crucial savanna
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» SãO DESIDéRIO (BRAZIL) - People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered "sterile" land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says.
EU agrees ban on imports driving deforestation
AFP, Published on 06/12/2022
» BRUSSELS: The European Union reached an agreement Tuesday to ban the import of products including coffee, cocoa and soy in cases where they are deemed to contribute to deforestation.
Forest loss 'hotspots' bigger than Germany: WWF
AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» PARIS: More than 43 million hectares -- an area bigger than Germany -- of forest have been lost in a little over a decade in just a handful of deforestation hotspots, conservation organisation WWF said Wednesday.
As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns
AFP, Published on 22/09/2019
» RIO DE JANEIRO - The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames.
Global appetite for beef, soy fuels Amazon fires
AFP, Published on 25/08/2019
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Two of the industries involved in the infernos consuming the Amazon rainforest and drawing the attention of global powers gathered at the G7 meeting in France are familiar to diners worldwide: soy and beef.