After years of positive signs, deforestation in BrazilâEUR(TM)s Amazon is on the rise, with a sharp increase in 2016.
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The oil spill was reported Wednesday morning in the northern Peruvian Amazon. It is the fourth spill reported this year from an aging pipeline owned by the state-run company PetroperÃº.
For decades, the indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest have been struggling to protect their ancestral lands from logging.
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Sapara leaders have been speaking out against the Ecuadorian government's plans for oil drilling on their territory in the Amazon, and now they have received threats over their efforts to defend their lives, land, and culture.
Dam construction in remote parts of the Amazon is historically proceeded by increased lawlessness as illegal loggers and squatters flock to the project site to cut timber and make land grabs from longtime farmers and other settlers.
Some estimates say that we are losing 137 plant species every single day due to deforestation, species that could potentially be the cure for many of the terrible diseases we are unfortunately forced to confront.
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