Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s new president vows to protect the rainforest. He has ambitious plans to halt the Amazon’s high rates of deforestation. In 2021, 98,000 hectares (240,000 acres) of virgin forest in the Colombian Amazon were lost to deforestation. Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will assume office in August with ambitious plans to … Read more
Colombian president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Petro has promised to limit agribusiness expansion into the forest, and create reserves where Indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products. He has also pledged income … Read more
British journalist went missing in the Amazon while investigating ‘rainforest mafia’ operations. Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira have been missing since Sunday morning. They vanished from a remote region of the rainforest in a remote spot near the Peruvian-Colombian border. Hopes for a British journalist who went missing in the Amazon while investigating ‘rainforest mafia’ … Read more
GLASGOW: UN climate talks headed towards a rocky conclusion Friday after two weeks of fraught debate failed to resolve several key disputes or produce the emissions-cutting plans needed to limit global warming to 1.5C. “The world is watching us”, COP26 President Alok Sharma told delegates charged with keeping the Paris Agreement temperature goals alive even … Read more
