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Forests: Amazon rainforest: William Mastrosimone: 1994 The Burning Season (2008) Forests: deforestation in Indonesia: Cathy Henkel: 2008 Butterfly: Environmentalism: resisting clearcutting: Doug Wolens: 2000 Cane Toads: The Conquest: Introduced species: cane toads in Australia: Mark Lewis: 2010 Cane Toads: An Unnatural History: Introduced ...
The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is influenced by various factors at local, national, and international levels. The rainforest is sought after for purposes such as cattle ranching, the extraction of valuable hardwoods , land for housing and farming (especially soybeans), the construction of roads (including highways and smaller roads ...
Jungle is a 2017 biographical survival drama film, based on the true story of Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg's 1981 journey into the Amazon rainforest.Directed by Greg McLean and written by Justin Monjo, the film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Ghinsberg, with Alex Russell, Thomas Kretschmann, Yasmin Kassim, Joel Jackson, and Jacek Koman in supporting roles.
After an aerial tour to view the ecosystems and deforestation, Biden said he was… With his visit Sunday, Biden became the first sitting American president to set foot in the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon rainforest's eight countries held a summit in Brazil on Tuesday for the first time in 14 years, with plans to reach a broad agreement on issues from fighting deforestation to financing ...
On the Cerrado, Brazil’s highly biodiverse savanna, deforestation was up 9 percent compared to last year, however. The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest, and two-thirds of it is in Brazil.
The movie opens in 1951 with a young Mendes witnessing his father's interaction with corrupt ranchers who are exploiting peasants for their work. The bulk of the film then takes place between 1983 and 1988, showing Mendes' activism to preserve the Amazon rainforest, to his murder in a drive-by shooting by a disgruntled rancher waiting in the ...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge ...