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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest in 2023 halved from the previous year to its lowest level since 2018, government data showed on Friday, a major win for President ...
The EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, abbreviated EUDR) is a European Union regulation on deforestation. The goal of the EUDR is to guarantee that the products European Union (EU) citizens consume do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation worldwide.
It has some of the worst deforestation rates in the world. This dry forest ecosystem is home to a wide range of wildlife, including jaguars, foxes, manned wolves, ocelots, tapirs, armadillos ...
In July 2023, most of the forest was cut down by YK Energy to make way for expansion of İkizköy lignite mine, which supplies the nearby Yeniköy power station. The deforestation attracted protests in July 2023. The protests were met with a police response and national media attention. Sixty percent of the forest had been destroyed by August.
The last such summit had been in 2009 during the first presidency of Lula da Silva.Following years of international isolation in environmental matters under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro during which environment policies were either loosened or scrapped, and disasters such as the 2019 Northeast Brazil oil spill and the Yanomami humanitarian crisis took place, Brazil sought to restore and ...
Deforestation in Colombia fell 29.1% in 2022 versus the previous year spurred by sharp decreases in the country's Amazon region, the government said on Wednesday, marking the lowest level since 2013.
This is an article of notable issues relating to the terrestrial environment of Earth in 2023.They relate to environmental events such as natural disasters, environmental sciences such as ecology and geoscience with a known relevance to contemporary influence of humanity on Earth, environmental law, conservation, environmentalism with major worldwide impact and environmental issues.
"Narco-deforestation," as it was referred to in a United Nations report last month, represents a new target for law enforcement operating in the Amazon rainforest, where the lines between ...