Scientists have found the first evidence of plastic contamination in freshwater fish in the Amazon, highlighting the extent to which bags, bottles…
‘Sad surprise’: Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles
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NEWS
CDB COP 14
Ahead of the official opening of CBD CoP14 the High-Level Ministerial Segment(HLS), the Africa Biodiversity Summit and the Business and Biodiversity Forumset the tone…
WWF joins the call for a New Agreement for Nature and Humanity
Because the 20 Aichi targets for Biodiversity established in 2010 will not be able to be met by 2020 as…
The Giant South American Turtle reappears in the Brazilian Amazon
A research led by the University of East published in the journal Nature Sustainability showed that the Giant South American…
The last trees of the Amazon
Illegally-sourced timber from Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Colombia are incorporated into the international market with falsified official documents that…
China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network
Brazilian commodities producers have long dreamed of a railroad network crisscrossing Amazonia and the Cerrado, able to cheaply move crops…