Go deeper: Deforestation of the Amazon reaches a decade high Birds-eye view: How deforestation takes over Brazil Bolsonaro could ramp up deforestation, environmentalists warn
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Amazon deforestation is skyrocketing Deforestation is climbing, but is still below its historical average.
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That is why we're committed to discouraging deforestation through a Zero Deforestation Policy for our Brazilian farmland investments.
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The deforestation data published in June come from a satellite system, DETER, the main purpose of which is not to generate compiled deforestation rates, but to release deforestation warnings to guide the work of forces on the ground.
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Recent Amazon research shows that legally recognized indigenous territories are extremely effective at preventing deforestation, even where deforestation pressure is high.
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"We see tentative findings that along the deforestation frontier — where deforestation was most likely to occur — there are reductions in the rate of deforestation," said Tara Slough, the Columbia University researcher leading the study, in a presentation this September.
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Earlier this month, Norway and Germany suspended funding for projects to curb deforestation in Brazil after alarm about rising deforestation under Bolsonaro.
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Earlier this month Norway and Germany suspended funding for projects to curb deforestation in Brazil after becoming alarmed by rising deforestation under Bolsonaro.
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In May 2018 Bunge was fined for activities related to illegal deforestation, and some deforestation-watchers have criticized its subsequent policy update as inadequate.
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" Norway, for instance, now has a "zero deforestation policy," where it has committed to ensuring "that public procurements do not contribute to deforestation of the rainforest.
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"The goal of Calderon's argument was to associate two bad things: deforestation and coca, as if coca was the only cause of deforestation," said Davalos, adding that the vast majority of Colombia's deforestation was caused by the development of now-abandoned road-building projects in the 1960s.
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For example, organizations hoping to track deforestation could use the daily images taken by these satellites to really track, and maybe even prevent, some of that deforestation.
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The data, which included the estimated deforestation rates for nine states of the Brazilian Legal Amazon, was generated by the Satellite Legal Amazon Deforestation Monitoring Project (PRODES).
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Carlos Nobre, a Brazilian scientist who researches the climate impacts of Amazon's deforestation, recently concluded that — when accounting for the potent confluence of deforestation, rising global temperatures, and fires — vast swathes of the Amazon may "flip" to drier, non-forest ecosystems at between 20 to 25 percent deforestation.
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Deforestation: Although individual countries have made significant progress fighting deforestation (China, for example, has more forest cover than it has in past assessments), overall forests are in decline.
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"Indigenous lands were particularly effective at avoiding deforestation in locations with high deforestation pressure," U.S. and Brazilian scientists wrote in a 2013 study analyzing 292 areas in the Amazon.
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Climate models show that deforestation in Central Africa could lead to a 15% drop in rainfall in the US Midwest, and Amazon deforestation could cut Texas rainfall by 25%.
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A United Nations process called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degraded Forests, or REDD+ promises funding for developing countries to protect existing forests, avoid deforestation and restore degraded forests.
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Preliminary estimates of Amazon deforestation in 2019 indicate that deforestation is increasing, headed toward the highest annual rate in a decade, totaling 5,884 square kilometers from January through August. 6.
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Agricultural production has continued to rise over the past decade even as deforestation declined, he says (though the deforestation rate has gone up again in two of the past three years).
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Immediate clearing of intact forests, what might be considered "classic" deforestation, over that period accounted for about 3 percent of global emissions from deforestation in all tropical forests, the researchers said.
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But a few years later, Ms. DiPerna said, the New York State Common Retirement Fund and Green Century Capital Management, which together had a $20 million investment in Bunge, pushed the company to make its deforestation even more stringent by promising to eliminate deforestation from its business altogether, not just deforestation declared illegal under a country's regulations.
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The new deforestation figures, released by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, provide the clearest evidence to date that deforestation in the Amazon is on a solidly upward trend on Mr. Bolsonaro's watch.
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The deforestation and destruction of their home, the Amazon rainforest.
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The melting Arctic has become this decade's Amazon deforestation crisis.
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Poaching and increasing deforestation continue to be threats to tigers.
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The species was brought to Hawaii to help remedy deforestation.
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This will be another tool in the fight against deforestation.
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Deforestation for cattle ranches appears to be a major factor.
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IOI was earlier accused of deforestation in its Indonesian concessions.
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One reason that the water is so murky is deforestation.
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AN OBVIOUS RESPONSE to deforestation is to plant more trees.
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The deforestation causes sandstorms that devastate rural communities, Welscher said.
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Deforestation is known to be detrimental to the earth's climate.
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The Mighty Honeybee Is Fighting Poverty and Deforestation in Zanzibar.
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Willcock hopes the data gathered could help cut deforestation rates.
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Last year, deforestation in the Amazon increased by 29 percent.
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Conservation groups say the law hurts wildlife and causes deforestation.
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Urban populations are on the rise and so is deforestation.
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Amazon deforestation is rebounding from a record low in 2012.
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Deforestation around Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda, 1973 vs. 2005
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Deforestation of Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, 1973 vs. 2000
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Fire in the Amazon goes hand in hand with deforestation.
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In 1999, a satellite image shows deforestation in Brazil's rainforest.
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The central African creature is endangered primarily because of deforestation.
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This deforestation has led to uncontrollable fires in the Amazon.
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Habitat loss due to deforestation also contributed to their decline.
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Rats and beetles may also have contributed to the deforestation.
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One of the biggest drivers of deforestation is cattle ranching.
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Indonesia today protects 106 million acres of forests against deforestation.
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"The Paris Agreement is doomed if deforestation continues," Helgesen said.
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It's the worst deforestation of all protected areas in Brazil.
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Deforestation soared, up almost 230 percent from the year before.
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Deforestation and disease threaten them now, and climate change looms.
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Deforestation increased by 29 percent last year following previous reductions.
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This hopeful period of slower deforestation was not to last.
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Stopping deforestation would stop the tiger's decline, Dr. Luskin said.
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Bolsonaro, who famously fired INPE leader Ricardo Galvão after Galvão spoke out about high deforestation rates, has vowed to explore the Amazon's economic potential and condemned deforestation warnings that could interfere with trade negotiations.
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Nevertheless, research by Brazil's space agency and academics has linked the road to a rise in deforestation, and road improvements allowing easier access deep into the Amazon have consistently led to increased deforestation nearby.
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Cambodia has suffered from severe deforestation for the past several decades.
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Deforestation throughout Central and South America is putting pressure on sloths.
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Their number continues to dwindle due to poaching, deforestation and diseases.
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It was the first large increase in deforestation in four years.
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Cattle production is the main driver of Amazon deforestation, Charoux said.
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Unfortunately, the monkeys are pretty severely threatened by deforestation and hunting.
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Have there been efforts to curb the corruption and illegal deforestation?
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However, the ancient trees are becoming more endangered due to deforestation.
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Roughly 2000% of the deforestation took place in nominally protected areas.
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Most are simply unable to stop powerful interests bent on deforestation.
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In fact, combating deforestation is an unwavering commitment of the government.
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Deforestation, it turns out, was not just an Industrial Age problem.
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All told, deforestation causes a triple-whammy of global warming: 1.
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The paper doesn't include emissions from fossil fuel extraction and deforestation.
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The avocado boom further complicates issues surrounding deforestation and monarch protection.
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Mozambique has one of Africa's highest rates of deforestation alongside Zambia.
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It seems just as unstoppable as the deforestation of poorer places.
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About 80% of all Amazon deforestation is due to cattle-raising.
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Deforestation accounts for 10 to 15 percent of carbon emissions worldwide.
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As the deforestation continued, mysterious deaths surrounded their home and business.
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However, Amazon deforestation is rebounding from a record low in 2012.
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Wild Madagascar lists them as being endangered, mostly due to deforestation.
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Consumption without consideration of the items' origin in part drives deforestation.
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Deforestation of the South American Atlantic Forest, Paraguay, 1973 vs. 2008
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"Human activity is causing deforestation on a massive scale," Field said.
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Wildfires are further exacerbated by deforestation in places like South America.
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Deforestation — the result of a developing world striving to feed itself.
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Such fires are a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon.
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"These communities actually bear the burden of reducing deforestation," she said.
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Deforestation could drive the Amazon to a tipping pointThe Guardian reported
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Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation and habitat loss.
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Deforestation has begun to dry up the land and the wells.
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Learn more about illegal deforestation in Romania on the Greenpeace website.
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Street fights ending in death have also increased, as has deforestation.
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But livestock isn't the only agribusiness playing a role in deforestation.
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Environmentalists also blame palm oil cultivation for deforestation in southeast Asia.
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Runoff exacerbated by deforestation carries silt and pollution into the lake.
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Wildfires may well be the single greatest agent of deforestation worldwide.
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Deforestation hastens global warming, and mining can lead to environmental degradation.
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Local news outlets cited poor forecasting, deforestation and mining as factors.
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This level of deforestation on protected peatland supposedly wasn't happening anymore.
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It's become clear that deforestation is driving the fires this year.
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He concluded from the data that soy doesn't contribute to deforestation.
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Brazil has some of the world's most stringent controls on deforestation.
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Brazilian diplomats abroad present their country as committed to halting deforestation.
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At some point, the deforestation of the Amazon is not reversible.
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We must stop deforestation the world over, particularly in the Amazon.
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Deforestation has contributed about 11 percent of the world's greenhouse gases.
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Deforestation is not new, and it doesn't just happen in Brazil.
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In 2004, the country began an effort to slow Amazon deforestation.
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Brazil's leaders now saw merit in putting the brakes on deforestation.
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Rousseff committed to fighting deforestation in the Amazon, 60 percent of
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Opponents say some crops are grown on plantations that cause deforestation.
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Agribusiness and the deforestation of the Amazon are inextricably linked issues.
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Maggi said growers are respectful of legally allowed limits on deforestation.
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The relative ease of illegal logging and the profits to be made from it are partially responsible for a 29 percent increase in deforestation in Brazil in 2015 after years of declining deforestation rates, experts say.
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"In Zimbabwe, the major drivers of deforestation have been the conversion of forest land to agricultural land, which accounts for 80 percent of the deforestation rate," Oppah Muchinguri, Zimbabwe's environment minister, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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One possible use of the data is in tracking deforestation, Safyan said.
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They are endangered, with populations declining due to rampant deforestation and hunting.
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Deforestation on its own causes about 10 percent of worldwide GHG emissions.
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The growth of Western forests seems almost as inexorable as deforestation elsewhere.
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Deforestation in South America and Africa rightly gets most of conservationists' attention.
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Another factor is land use change, with deforestation also posing a threat.
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From 2012 to 2015, deforestation in Brazil ratcheted up by 75 percent.
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Nestle said in an emailed response it was "committed to tackling" deforestation.
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Climate change and deforestation also contribute to the spread of Lyme disease.
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But our dependence on java is threatened by climate change and deforestation.
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It would not stop mass deforestation or the mass extinction of animals.
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Most of this deforestation is caused by illegal activity, according to IBAMA.
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Deforestation has skyrocketed on Bolsonaro's watch, despite his claims to the contrary.
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As for deforestation, the rainforest has been getting chopped down for years.
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Such spaces already exist and using them would not contribute to deforestation.
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The Amazon rainforest saw thousands of wildfires this year because of deforestation.
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Nestlé stopped using palm oil in its supply chain to stop deforestation.
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Keep in mind: Tree cover loss is not the same as deforestation.
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Using the funding, Gabon will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and battle deforestation.
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What destroyed this civilization was apparently deforestation in the 1500s and 1600s.
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Right now, the Amazon has seen roughly 15 to 17 percent deforestation.
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Didn't soybeans embody everything wrong with industrial agriculture, from monoculture to deforestation?
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That means stopping the ongoing fires and deforestation as quickly as possible.
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The government has used them to curb deforestation in the Amazon before.
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"Deforestation was out of control," Environment Minister Sarney Filho told reporters recently.
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Greening your coffee habit can help limit deforestation, shipping emissions and packaging.
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The animals are threatened by habitat fragmentation, deforestation and illegal wildlife trafficking.
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And global financial institutions must stop funding projects that result in deforestation.
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In 2017, 34 chocolate companies agreed to end deforestation by their industry.
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Existing forest Deforestation through 2115 Fires in August Brazilian Amazon BRAZIL VEN.
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"But we have the tools to reduce that likelihood by reducing deforestation."
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Continuing deforestation reflects the growth in global population and growing food demands.
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Deforestation in the Amazon has soared under President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil.
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Now, the deforestation rate is the highest it's been in a decade.
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For more than a decade, Brazil successfully fought deforestation in the Amazon.
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Today, the Amazon is entering a new and dangerous phase of deforestation.
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The Amazon rainforest has faced encroachment and deforestation for a long time.
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Between 2005 and 2012, deforestation and forest fires in Brazil declined significantly.
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We were learning about ancient Amazon trade and he brought up deforestation.
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Even before Mr Bolsonaro, deforestation began to tick up (see chart 1).
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Conservationists are concerned that deforestation threatens the survival of the bee giants.
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And the deforestation totals in the report reflect only a small part of the problem, because 80 percent of the meat produced in the region goes into the domestic market, whose effect on deforestation Trase did not measure.
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Countries that commit to close cooperation on deforestation will get access to data on a daily basis, making it possible to uncover deforestation even of very small areas, down to the removal of a single tree, Elvestuen added.
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Glenn Hurowitz of Mighty, an environmental group, says that while cattle, paper and palm oil are forces of deforestation, "we see an immediate opportunity to dramatically reduce deforestation for soy because of the international nature of the soy market".
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Aerial view of deforestation in the western Amazon region of Brazil in September.
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Deforestation rose 34% in May compared with the same month a year ago.
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Deforestation continues, but most new agricultural production in Brazil comes from technological gains.
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Those numbers rose for both deforestation (carbon release) and forest restoration (carbon sequestration).
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Brazil leads the world on carbon reductions, due to the fight on deforestation.
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The cocoa industry is threatening to the environment, including by contributing to deforestation.
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That said, there is still plenty of deforestation happening for palm oil production.
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Deforestation rates are published once a year through a different satellite system, PRODES.
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Indeed, agriculture is far and away the primary driver of deforestation in Brazil.
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DEFORESTATION IS on the rise and Brazil's government is all but encouraging it.
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Deforestation, meanwhile, releases those emissions back into the air and worsens the problem.
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With naked guesswork, Bales ascribes 40 percent of global deforestation to slave labor.
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That is still 25% less than the deforestation that took place in 2004.
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Palm oil is another important Mondelez ingredient that has been linked to deforestation.
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Animal pastures have been blamed for 90% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
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The scale of deforestation in the Amazon, for example, is a pressing concern.
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Rising deforestation in previously protected places like Apui is reflected in government data.
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Amazonas State alone suffered from a 54 percent increase in deforestation in 2016.
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Deforestation rose 34% in May compared to the same month a year ago.
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That means switching away from palm oil will drive greater levels of deforestation.
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For example, clearing forest in the name of roads can lead to deforestation.
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"There is no silver bullet on deforestation," Szerman told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Advocacy groups criticized NAFTA's environmental regulations for failing to prevent deforestation and pollution.
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In Panama, indigenous people are using drones to monitor deforestation on their lands.
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Canaria is at risk of becoming a desert due to draught and deforestation,
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Some deforestation is caused by ranchers and farmers looking to expand arable land.
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Brazil's deforestation reduction efforts likely bought the climate a little bit of time.
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If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank third in global emissions.
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In addition to government, the private sector helped lower the rate of deforestation.
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Only half of these companies have made zero-deforestation a commitment by 2020.
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If we eat less beef there will be less deforestation in the Amazon.
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This would eliminate any form of oversight of actions that lead to deforestation.
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Vast quantities of wood are burned to cure tobacco leaves, contributing to deforestation.
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And with each passing day we see the destruction advance: deforestation, invasion, logging.
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In that sense, deforestation and fires are two sides of the same coin.
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So it follows that the Brazilian Amazon is also experiencing record-breaking deforestation.
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Brazil offers a poignant and visually arresting snapshot of the effects of deforestation.
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Deforestation has been linked to three out of every ten recent disease outbreaks.
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Yet Rapu agrees that there are larger lessons about the consequences of deforestation.
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Satellite data shows that deforestation has grown steadily since his victory in October.
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Environmentalists fought the measure, fearing it would displace indigenous communities and enable deforestation.
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The farms that produce bioethanol have long angered indigenous groups for advancing deforestation.
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They degrade the planet's natural resources, with chemical fertilizers, deforestation and intensive farming.
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They accuse him of relaxing environmental controls in the country and encouraging deforestation.
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Since Bolsonaro gained power, there has been rapid deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Hummingbirds are a prime example of species threatened by climate change and deforestation.
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Cattle ranching in Brazil and soy cultivation, are the largest drivers of deforestation.
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It offers its citizens generous subsidies for electric cars and has banned deforestation.
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We should do all we can to reverse deforestation for the same reason.
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Initially, these deforestation projects sought to increase the land available to domestic livestock.
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Between 2005 and 2014, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon declined by 70 percent.
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Even if it did not, deforestation is not a necessary price of development.
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In particular, she focuses on pollution and deforestation, the worst issues plaguing India.
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By studying these trees, scientists can help predict the irreversible consequences of deforestation.
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January 24, 2018 You've heard of deforestation, but what might "reforestation" look like?
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Those big four globally-traded commodities are responsible for 40 percent of deforestation.
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From 2004 to 2012 the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slowed.
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Expanding fossil-fuel production in this region results in more emissions and deforestation.
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These include financial aid to encourage developing countries to respect non-deforestation criteria, the launch of a "zero deforestation" label for consumers by 2020 and a push next year for a European policy on imports posing a risk for forests.
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According to Bolsonaro's statements we can conclude that illegal settlements and deforestation will accelerate.
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All told, deforestation accounts for an estimated 15 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions.
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But, like many forest-dwelling critters, they are threatened by habitat destruction and deforestation.
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"We haven't seen actual progress in reducing deforestation" in Indonesia, Norway's environment minister admitted.
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Right now, more than 20 percent of global carbon emissions are from deforestation alone.
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All told, deforestation accounts for an estimated 22017 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions.
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WALHI, an environmental pressure group, has filed a lawsuit over deforestation in Central Kalimantan.
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But rising deforestation, on the pretext of development, threatens the sustainability of the ecosystem.
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Brazil has reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 72% over the past 15 years.
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Deforestation is what's driving these blazes, and there is some horrifying science behind that.
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Globally, it's estimated that 211% to 22020% of global emissions are attributable to deforestation.
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The issue goes beyond deforestation, but in some places its impact can be seen.
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Palm oil plantations have been linked to deforestation, air pollution, and illegal labor practices.
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But climate activists warn the plan does not do enough to ward off deforestation.
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Deforestation releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, spurring global warming, and reduces regional rainfall.
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Still, he warned that replacing plastic straws with wooden ones could lead to deforestation.
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We might be able to use that as a driver of reforestation, not deforestation.
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The deforestation also left large areas that were prone to massive amounts of erosion.
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"We need charcoal replacement options to really have an impact on deforestation," Chibesakunda said.
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Now, squeezed by deforestation and farming, the community is going digital to defend itself.
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The 2016-2017 level represented 1.5 percent of overall Amazon deforestation for the period.
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Deforestation is increasing, with 2150 million hectares of tropical forest chopped down last year.
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The Amazon rainforest and Indonesia's peat swamps aren't the only places suffering from deforestation.
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Significantly reducing deforestation here will make a big dent in Earth's growing carbon problem.
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Norway has cut its support for the fund in the past when deforestation increased.
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Analysts say a lack of property rights has fueled the recent increase in deforestation.
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It also uses a lot more water than crop agriculture and contributes to deforestation.
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The statement did not say the companies agreed to end deforestation in the Cerrado.
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Accompanying these agreements are accounts of deforestation, corporate land grabbing and human rights abuses.
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"Increased deforestation and burning are the result of his anti-environmental policy," he continued.
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Environmentalists say the surge in fires in the Brazilian rainforest is due to deforestation.
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Deforestation in Brazil has already played a huge role in the current climate crisis.
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Illegal logging and mining in the Amazon rain forest cause drastic levels of deforestation.
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Deforestation disturbs the regions rainfall patterns, and without rain, a rainforest isn't a rainforest.
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Past free trade agreements with tropical countries have attempted to address the deforestation crisis.
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Deforestation is a driver of climate change — and is also a driver of extinction.
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Like other forms of paper, they contribute to deforestation, water pollution, and global warming.
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There's also CO2 from deforestation and land-use change to consider, another important chunk.
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The fires have been linked to the effects of record heat, drought, and deforestation.
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The recently burned forest area will add to that growing cumulative total of deforestation.
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Yet in the past year, deforestation and fires have surged, reversing years of decline.
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Mitigation efforts like stopping deforestation and restoring degraded areas added up to $64 billion.
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As a result, deforestation in the Amazon is now once again on the rise.
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He is noted as one of the first Brazilians to speak out against deforestation.
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Raising cattle is profitable, and it's cattle ranching that's driving most of this deforestation.
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The big picture: Amazon deforestation has sped up under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.
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Per AP, new details from Brazil's space agency show a "surge" in Amazon deforestation.
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It's a potential solution to the problem of deforestation that's plaguing countries like Brazil.
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Agribusiness is among the top contributors to deforestation, which decimates wildlife populations, scientists say.
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Further analysis showed that deforestation was not simply shifting to nearby lands, as feared.
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Other threats to their survival include loss of habitat, deforestation and pollution, experts say.
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Deforestation in the Amazon took off in the 1970s, reaching a peak in 1995.
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Brazil's election of far-right President Bolsonaro has sparked a new surge of deforestation.
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"In Central Kalimantan, a lot of forests already disappeared because of deforestation," he said.
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In 2018, deforestation from wildcat mining in southern Peru, where Madre de Dios is located, peaked at 9,280 hectares (22,931 acres), according to a report by Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), which uses satellite images to track deforestation for Amazon Conservation.
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The report also found that "BlackRock is among the top three shareholders in 25 of the world's largest publicly listed deforestation-risk companies," and linked the company's Environmental, Social and Governance funds to land rights conflicts, forced and child labor, and deforestation.
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Galvao agreed the DETER data should not be used to compare one month to the next because it was not perfectly able to differentiate exactly when deforestation occurred, but stressed this did not mean deforestation picked up by the system was not happening.
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At a briefing to discuss the numbers, Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said the rise in deforestation showed the need for a new strategy to combat the illegal logging, mining and land grabbing which he said were to blame for the increase in deforestation.
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In 2100, after Greenpeace released a report connecting meat processing companies to farmers involved in deforestation, three of Brazil's largest beef exporters — JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva — entered into an agreement with the environmental group to no longer source from farmers involved in deforestation.
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Jonah Busch, an environmental economist with the Earth Innovation Institute, thinks that Brazil, which dramatically pared its own deforestation between 1996 and 2010 (though the trend has been worrying since then), could be a model for Indonesia to reduce its own deforestation.
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We think a Zero Deforestation Policy will add long-term value for our agriculture investments.
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"We are adopting all measures to combat illegal deforestation," Environment Minister Ricardo Salles told Reuters.
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His remarks happen in a moment when criticism over the Brazilian government regarding deforestation grows.
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Pixels of evidence in hand, the fund could start legal action to stop the deforestation.
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But the region has limited upside potential due to strict environmental laws that prohibit deforestation.
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Unlike India's smog-filled cities, this Cameroonian city's air quality is compounded by extensive deforestation.
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Some worry that supermarkets will simply switch to paper bags, which could add to deforestation.
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After all, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Jokowi's predecessor, also promised to halt deforestation, to little avail.
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Bolsonaro famously fired INPE leader Ricardo Galvão after Galvão spoke out about high deforestation rates.
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Number one on that list is stopping deforestation, along with efforts to regenerate degraded ecosystems.
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Forests are a great bulwark against climate change, so programs to reduce deforestation are important.
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He attributed this year's spike to illegal deforestation since it has not been unusually dry.
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Myanmar's newly democratic government has banned the export of raw timber, to help fight deforestation.
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In the 1980s, there were bigger issues, things like deforestation and monocultures, overfishing and overhunting.
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Deforestation threatens not just the planet and Mondelez's business, but the company's reputation, as well.
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The states of Pará and Mato Grosso were the largest contributors to the deforestation increase.
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Deforestation has left most of the nation stripped of trees and extremely prone to landslides.
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Deforestation in Brazil is nothing new; since 21980, nearly 219,214 square miles have been destroyed.
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Deforestation in Brazil is nothing new; since 1970, nearly 300,000 square miles have been destroyed.
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This is due, in part, to reliance on fossil fuels and rising rates of deforestation.
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And then another one was where deforestation actually happened versus where they thought it happened.
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Cocoa farming has been a major driver of deforestation in Ghana, according to the government.
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The second priority is to halt deforestation and conversion of natural areas into agricultural production.
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Under Bolsonaro, deforestation of the Amazon has accelerated here, according to a state-run agency.
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Brazil's government has pledged to reduce net deforestation to zero in the Amazon by 2030.
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According to U.N. data, Zambia has one of the world's highest deforestation rates per capita.
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Clearing the rainforest for cattle farming is a major cause of the fires and deforestation.
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Bolsonaro has claimed that the data about the country's deforestation is "a lie," Reuters reported.
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When we choose sustainably sourced, renewable forest products, we are valuing forests and preventing deforestation.
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But Mato Grosso continues to rank among the states with the heaviest rates of deforestation.
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Critics say that using palm oil in biofuel adds to massive deforestation in tropical countries.
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Bolsonaro has been criticized for implementing policies that have encouraged illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
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No more development, no more expansion, no more deforestation, no more environmental destruction is needed.
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"Zimbabwe may become a desert if deforestation continues," said Patience Fusire, a manager at Nyaradzo.
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They can support organizations that work to protect indigenous communities, curb deforestation and fight extinction.
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In another, he blamed the palm oil industry for the deforestation threatening the Sumatran orangutan.
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Deforestation is up 77% this year from last, and about 83,000 fires have been identified.
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A first step is to stop portraying the problem of deforestation in simple, misleading terms.
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Now, with rampant deforestation in this part of the country, those animals are long gone.
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Despite extensive deforestation, the Atlantic Forest is one of Earth's great cradles of biological diversity.
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These measures cost the Brazilian government between $308 and $923 per hectare of avoided deforestation.
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Granted, there are concerning issues of deforestation and overuse of water in Mexico's avocado production.
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The 2014 study said that the tipping point was around 30 to 50 percent deforestation.
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In other words, it's not enough to simply put out the fires and stop deforestation.
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The nonprofit makes sure that the wood is not contributing to illegal logging and deforestation.
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Brazil alone has not created the deforestation problem, and neither can it address it alone.
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In 2019, the deforestation rate in Brazil jumped up 30 percent from the year before.
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We have committed to 100 percent cocoa certification, deforestation efforts, 100 percent certified palm oil.
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The recent surge in deforestation and fires is a direct result of this policy change.
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In September alone, deforestation rates surged 96 percent compared with the same month in 2018.
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They have also cast doubt on the effectiveness of Indonesia's recent efforts to reduce deforestation.
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Added to this is the deforestation occurring across the Amazon Basin and other tropical rainforests.
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That includes using large amounts of firewood to boil the nut, which contributes to deforestation.
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For decades, humans have hunted koalas for their pelts and destroyed their habitats through deforestation.
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Forests in South America and Central Africa are also shrinking because of logging and deforestation.
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It could do its bit for the world by halting deforestation and embracing electric vehicles.
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Lauan is often harvested from rainforests and is "a massive source of deforestation," O'Brien said.
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Rajawali's plantations have been accused by environmental and labor groups of deforestation and illegal burning.
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American consumers, often unwittingly, are contributing to alarming deforestation in the world's largest tropical forest.
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Scientists have long tried to estimate the extent of deforestation in North America and beyond.
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The Coalition championed something called the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism.
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From 1996 through 2005, deforestation in the Amazon averaged roughly 20,000 square kilometers per year.
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By 1989, Costa Rican deforestation rates had dropped dramatically; by 1998, they had stopped entirely.
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Of this, deforestation and forest degradation account for 17 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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And you can help limit deforestation, shipping emissions and packaging by greening your coffee habit.
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"Unfortunately, conservation of forests in one country often just shifts deforestation to another," she said.
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Right now, Indonesia's policies are allowing for deforestation, and are far too fossil-fuel centric.
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He's witnessed deforestation in rainforests, coral bleaching in oceans, and habitat loss for certain species.
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Some people in Haiti blame charcoal production as one of the reasons for existing deforestation.
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As their habitats become fragmented by deforestation and development, these oversized weasels face local extinctions.
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But the rate of deforestation had actually slowed for much of the past decade, reflecting the "Save the Rainforest" initiative supported by countries around the world, including several countries that share the Amazon with Brazil, to reach zero net deforestation by the year 222.
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But the rate of deforestation had actually slowed for much of the past decade, reflecting the "Save the Rainforest" initiative supported by countries around the world, including several countries that share the Amazon with Brazil, to reach zero net deforestation by the year 2020.
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In recent statements, Cargill has adopted a 2030 deadline for elimination of deforestation from its supply chain — a separate deadline, mentioned elsewhere in the New York Declaration, that was meant to apply to ending all forms of deforestation, not just those related to agricultural commodities.
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Deforestation is also impacting the rate of natural extinction, which is approximately 1 species per year.
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Continually increasing demand for animal feed crops is one of the chief causes of global deforestation.
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Deforestation in Brazil jumped 24 percent last year, when 6,207 square kilometers of forests were destroyed.
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Drug-related deforestation is also driving people out of the region, and making climate change worse.
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The modern world's insatiable appetite for wood, land, agriculture, and mineral extraction continues to drive deforestation.
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Deforestation in the Amazon has to stop…for our health and the health of our planet!
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But deforestation isn't an organized shrinking of the rainforest, paring it down from the edges in.
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You can petition businesses not to support agribusiness or materials mined from Brazil that promote deforestation.
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After INPE released data showing increasing deforestation in July, the president claimed the numbers were fake.
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Widespread deforestation for fuel and farming makes the impoverished state prone to natural disasters, especially floods.
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Experts blame the scarcity of trees and vegetation on deforestation, a growing population and climate change.
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Deforestation and agriculture practices can damage the land and lead to large amounts of greenhouse gas.
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Hippo populations are threatened by poaching, disease, loss of habitat, deforestation, and pollution, according to experts.
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Some, including the eastern Amazon, are getting hit with the combined effects of deforestation and fire.
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But should its impact on deforestation, labour rights, food security and protecting biodiversity also be included?
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The actor is in Indonesia this week to help raise awareness in the fight against deforestation.
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It has divested from heavy polluters, firms involved in deforestation and, this year, from coal companies.
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Environmentalists fear the boost to local palm oil consumption will hasten Indonesia's already fast spreading deforestation.
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Its annual funding is linked to Brazil's success in reducing Amazon deforestation in the prior year.
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Rubber, however, pales in comparison to oil palm, a major driver of deforestation and illegal logging.
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Deforestation and civil war have uprooted them, and their community struggles with drug addiction and alcoholism.
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They are more likely to occur if soil is laid bare by deforestation or urban planning.
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We agreed that rising temperatures are being caused by industrial pollution, deforestation and other human activities.
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Deforestation of mountainous and jungle areas in Colombia significantly increases the risk of disasters like landslides.
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Bunge and Cargill have backed the moratorium and pledged to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains.
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Human activity is to blame: Habitats are being destroyed due to pollution, climate change, and deforestation.
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In 2005, the country's portion of the Amazon had the highest deforestation rate in the world.
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Burning fossils fuels, deforestation, and other activities release greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
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Deforestation, pollution, climate change, and old fashioned human carelessness are wreaking havoc on the world's forests.
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TensorFlow has even been used to discover new planets, detect illegal deforestation, and translate Vatican texts.
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The burning and deforestation of the Amazon rainforest will have lasting effects on the global climate.
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Most deforestation has happened in tropical areas, but the US has also lost significant forest land.
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But the link between plantations and deforestation was much more stark in Malaysian Borneo, Gaveau said.
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That contradicts pledges each company has made to stop procuring palm oil that contributes to deforestation.
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BRAZIL AMAZON RAINFOREST DEFORESTATION TOTALS 9,762 SQUARE KM FOR 12 MONTHS THROUGH JULY -SPACE RESEARCH AGENCY
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BRAZIL AMAZON DEFORESTATION HITS HIGHEST POINT SINCE 2008 FOR 12 MONTHS THROUGH JULY -SPACE RESEARCH AGENCY
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It also indicated that climate change may become a greater threat to tree species than deforestation.
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The United States and the international community must double down on solutions to curb accelerating deforestation.
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They say the development of palm oil not only leads to deforestation but also worker exploitation.
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Advocates are already exploring how blockchain can protect land rights, fight deforestation and end child trafficking.
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In a world ravaged by climate change, pollution, and deforestation, these works are timely and disturbing.
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If deforestation continues at its current rate, these fruit forests will disappear in the next decade.
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Illegal cocaine industry has only contributed to only a fraction of the total deforestation in Colombia.
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To do that, we need to protect their habitat from climate change and deforestation as well.
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Risks are exacerbated if there has been upstream slope deforestation or developments that reduce absorption capacity.
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But the country does have a deforestation problem — it's just more complicated than the world imagines.
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Nearby deforestation and gold mining shifted sediment in the region, making the ground less stable underfoot.
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There are, of course, many environmental threats on the continent, including poaching, water pollution and deforestation.
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Deforestation caused erosion that led crops to fail, and this advanced society disintegrated into civil war.
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In addition to deforestation from industry, the Amazon rainforest is under pressure from rising average temperatures.
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As economic growth began to slow and international demand for beef and soy rose, deforestation increased.
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Deforestation and large-scale foraging for mushrooms and forest fruit also limited their space and food.
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As a result, deforestation accelerated leading up to the fire season, which exacerbated the resulting disaster.
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But after years of progress to slow its destruction, deforestation is now accelerating, fueling more fires.
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Land use, including agriculture and deforestation, produces almost a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
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Food production uses 34% of land worldwide and contributes up to 75% of deforestation, he said.
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The Rainforest Alliance says 100% of your donation will help stop deforestation in Brazil right now.
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Bolsonaro's critics say the government's policy of encouraging deforestation has increased land clearance for agricultural purposes.
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The process has led to severe deforestation as growing populations boost the demand for cooking fuel.
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The report cited the groups' past successes in fighting global deforestation and supporting clean energy innovation.
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Regent, a Freetown neighborhood, has witnessed many devastating mudslides caused by years of deforestation and flooding.
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"Even a fairly modest further increase (in deforestation) would take this number to zero," he added.
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It will use satellite technology to ensure no deforestation is taking place in its supply chain.
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Coleman was arrested outside the embassy in August during a protest over deforestation in the Amazon.
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Major threats to red pandas include deforestation and degradation of their habitat due to human development.
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The proportion of companies with no deforestation commitments had barely changed since last year, she noted.
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The proportion of companies with no deforestation commitments had barely changed since last year, she noted.
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Deforestation adds to the dangers, as tree loss disrupts local rainfall cycles and slopes become unstable.
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Friend's data come from Timothy D. Searchinger, whose research assumes that beef consumption leads to deforestation.
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However, deforestation in Indonesia has ramped up in the past decade to pave way for agriculture.
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Both Cargill and Bunge said the report seemed to inflate its role in the region's deforestation.
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The UN estimates that deforestation and forest degradation accounts for around 11% of global carbon emissions.
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Deforestation often starts with selling timber, but also includes clearing the forest for farming and houses.
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Millions pay with credit cards issued by US-based banks that have quietly financed deforestation operations.
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The report blames deforestation, pollution and climate change caused by humans for the rapid wildlife declines.
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BlackRock, which Amazon Watch has accused of being one of the world's largest investors in deforestation.
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The government has also been impeding the efforts of people working to keep deforestation in check.
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Environmentalists blame right-wing Bolsonaro's policies favoring development over environmental protections for that and rising deforestation.
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The quality and volume of open pore wood trim might lead to the deforestation of Sweden.
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In July, the Amazon shrunk by 519 square miles — a new monthly record for deforestation there.
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Dr. Mountrakis's hope is that measuring forest attrition distance can help the public better grasp deforestation.
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From the towers, they can detect signs of deforestation like this in Rondônia, a nearby province.
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It's ambitious, especially in the face of setbacks, like the accelerating deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
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Only as deforestation approaches 50 percent of the study area do the numbers begin to decline.
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Deforestation and the encroachment of human habitations have resulted in increased contact between people and tigers.
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Deforestation makes the country vulnerable to floods, and unregulated house-building in vulnerable areas makes them devastating.
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Another image claims to shows before-and-after deforestation between 2009 and 2019 in an unnamed forest.
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Deforestation for cocoa happens in sight of authorities and chocolate traders are aware of it, they said.
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The Huichols object to the ranchers' intensive grazing and planting, and use of chemicals and deforestation practices.
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Weiss said Global Forest Watch is planning to put deforestation alerts on its website staring March 2.
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Meanwhile, the government is hampering the efforts of those who are supposed to keep deforestation in check.
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The deforestation is especially concentrated in the Michoacan state, which is also home to the monarch butterfly.
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Generally I think activists have been surprised by how fast companies have taken up zero deforestation commitments.
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Similarly, most of the deforestation in Kalimantan results from large-scale conversion to agriculture or timber plantations.
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Along with an increased demand for beef, the country has also experienced a significant increase in deforestation.
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We frequently read about pollution, the problems with plastics, mass deforestation, and the melting of ice shelves.
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Deforestation has accelerated in the Amazon since Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January.
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Environmentalists and locals have alleged deforestation continues to this day in Borneo and other parts of Malaysia.
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"It's not easy to fight deforestation, our Amazon area is bigger than all of Europe," he said.
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Karst, based in Sydney, aims to reduce the rate of deforestation with its sustainably-made paper goods.
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Deforestation presents an existential threat to this cycle, and it's also a major contributor to climate change.
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Manually planting trees is a slow, expensive process; it can't compete with the rate of industrial deforestation.
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And Southeast Asia boasts a higher deforestation rate than any other major tropical region, the ADB noted.
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They suffer at the hands of farmers with guns, toxic chemicals used in population control, and deforestation.
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Deforestation is a particular problem in cocoa-growing countries like Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Indonesia, among others.
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Countries with major forest resources, like Russia and Brazil, plan to offset future emissions by curbing deforestation.
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"The exporting countries are suffering from deforestation," Liu wrote in an email to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The statement said JBS did not buy animals from farms involved in deforestation or embargoed by Ibama.
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The reasons, as they all too often are, largely come back to climate change, deforestation, and poachers.
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And they are all going in the wrong direction: global temperatures, desertification, deforestation, ocean acidification, freshwater eutrophication.
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Bunge said it had blocked more than 50 farms last year for violating Brazilian laws on deforestation.
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Because so much deforestation has happened on Indigenous lands, reforestation would need to occur there as well.
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Widespread deforestation for fuel and farming has made the impoverished country prone to natural disasters, especially floods.
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Others said deforestation in surrounding mountains meant there were fewtrees to prevent water washing down bare slopes.
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Studies show that violent conflicts, such as Darfur, strongly correlate with land degradation, deforestation and water scarcity.
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Large-scale palm farming has led to widespread deforestation in parts of Southeast Asia and Central America.
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Deforestation rates in the region exceeded those of the Brazilian Amazon for the first time in 2010.
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In April Congo signed a $200 million deal with donors to tackle deforestation and reduce carbon emissions.
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The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked 12 CGF members if they remained committed to the no-deforestation pledge.
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"We reaffirm our commitment to combat illegal deforestation, with effective actions and not merely rhetoric," he wrote.
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Other human activities, such as deforestation and logging, could also devastate the planet's flora and fauna species.
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An increase in fires and deforestation in that region could markedly accelerate warming climates beyond South America.
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The same combination of drought and deforestation elsewhere had undermined the nation's already strained production of hydroelectricity.
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Another feature it offers is a map that lets you compare your location with the Amazon deforestation.
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And the prospects of slowing deforestation remain dim, an issue that matters to people around the world.
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Efforts to fight deforestation in the reserve focus on about 34,000 acres around where the butterflies roost.
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The animal population is decreasing at an alarming rate due to human activities like deforestation and mining.
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It aims to turn around deforestation and increase the province's forested area by at least 2 percent.
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Forests lock in carbon — and about 12% of man-made climate emissions today are linked to deforestation.
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These methods are causing increased deforestation, particularly in some of the most vulnerable ecological regions, McSweeney said.
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The rate of deforestation in the Amazon increased by 29 percent last year, according to government figures.
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Haiti's rural populations are not culprits or victims, but key players in the project of reversing deforestation.
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In some cases, poor dam construction, deforestation and a lack of emergency preparations have worsened the effects.
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Companies like Walmart and Unilever rolled out new programs to limit deforestation in their huge supply chains.
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Swift action to cut carbon emissions, protect precious water sources and halt deforestation is urgent and imperative.
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Deforestation peaked in the late '250s and early 2003s when some 2200,2513 hectares were being burned annually.
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Deforestation has disrupted the natural water cycle in some regions, causing the remaining undergrowth to dry out.
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Between 2003-2011, a left-wing Brazilian government managed to cut Amazon deforestation rates by 80 percent.
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During that period, the country was celebrated abroad for its aggressive efforts to curb rampant Amazon deforestation.
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Unfortunately, much of the forest is being destroyed by illegal human activities like deforestation and gold mining.
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One recent study found that deforestation in South America affects rainfall and snowpack across the Pacific states.
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By some estimates, deforestation accounts for more than 10 percent of humanity's carbon dioxide emissions each year.
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Last year, Norway made a first payment to Indonesia for cutting carbon emissions after deforestation rates fell.
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Zoonotic diseases like Covid-19 may be linked to increasing deforestation and the sale of wild animals.
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Deforestation to help grow soy, to feed China, and to create pasture for cattle to graze in.
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Deforestation accelerated more than 60% in June 2019 over the same period last year, INPE's data shows.
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Datafolha found that 66% of Brazilians said that Brazil should accept international aide to combat Amazon deforestation.
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There is an urgent need for constructive conservation strategies to prevent deforestation and reduce animal-human interactions.
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It's higher emission standards, investing in alternative energy sources, changes to the food supply and stopping deforestation.
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The deforestation total for the decade is based on monitoring from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.
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If deforestation continues unabated, Ivory Coast could lose all its forest cover by 2034, environmental campaigners say.
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In Paris Brazil pledged not just to halt illegal deforestation by 2030 but also to reforest 120,000km².
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Similarly, if his son's bill were to pass it would legalise the deforestation of some 1.5m km².
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Cattle farming in Brazil is also a culprit behind deforestation and, consequently, fires in the Amazon rainforest.
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Barilla has promoted its rejection of palm oil, a saturated fat that has also prompted devastating deforestation.
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Critics say deforestation, caused by the government's policy of increasing farming, is to blame for the disaster.
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The Brazilian space research agency will meet Wednesday to discuss strategies to combat deforestation in the Amazon.
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Officialdom relaxed rules that limited deforestation and reduced the percentage of the Amazon required to be preserved.
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Despite crop relatives' resilience, deforestation and urban development are cutting into wild plant species' habitats, causing extinctions.
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This is the fastest rate of Amazon deforestation in a decade, and BlackRock is profiting from it.
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And beef production, from carbon emissions to deforestation, has a greater environmental impact than any other food.
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The SDGs aim to tackle the world's most challenging problems, from halting deforestation to reducing child mortality.
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When I ask if this was illegal deforestation (a practice that's still common in Kalimantan), Adi shrugs.
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His research focuses on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and its effects on water and water quality.
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Between January and May, Ibama imposed the lowest number of fines for illegal deforestation in a decade.
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Alongside the threat from deforestation, the forest's capacity to water itself can be weakened by rising temperatures.
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Poaching, deforestation, and other forms of human activity have dramatically reduced the mass of life on Earth.
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Deforestation in the region has slowed from the early 2000s, when Brazil's soy boom was gaining steam.
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Annual deforestation in the Amazon last year was up 52 percent from a record low in 2012.
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The losses were puzzling, because the frogs were living in pristine habitats, unharmed by pollution or deforestation.
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Critics say that instead of mitigating environmental damage, tree plantations aimed at compensating deforestation make matters worse.
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Indonesia has vast coal reserves, mostly in Borneo, where coal mining is also a cause of deforestation.
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The majority of the world's palm oil comes from Malaysia and Indonesia, where deforestation has threatened orangutan populations.
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Every orphan that enters our facilities has a unique story, but most of their plights stem from deforestation.
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In regions like the Amazon, as much as 22018 percent of deforestation has been done to support livestock.
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I'm vegan to reduce my greenhouse gas emissions and help in some pathetically infinitesimal way to stop deforestation.
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The "Guardian" sensors record the forest itself and the sounds of deforestation—such as gunshots, fires, and chainsaws.
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In the wild they live in Madagascar and are a critically endangered species due to poaching and deforestation.
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Furthermore, the country is already grappling with broader ecological crises, such as illegal dumping, deforestation, and contaminated water.
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To tackle the lucrative criminal enterprise, environment officials are fighting deforestation based on the logic of counter-insurgency.
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Deforestation increased significantly in a few countries in 20173, most notably Colombia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Better satellite images, remote sensing, and other technologies are helping law enforcement respond to illegal deforestation far quicker.
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Cambodia's wildlife is also squeezed because the country has one of the biggest deforestation problems in the world.
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They have had little success however in tackling widespread child labor and deforestation in West Africa's cocoa sector.
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They have had little success however in tackling widespread child labor and deforestation in West Africa's cocoa sector.
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That is not necessarily comforting: rampant deforestation and the practice of slash-and-burn agriculture are to blame.
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In the following weeks, both Germany and Norway suspended funding to Brazil for projects meant to slow deforestation.
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The wild population, which lives in rainforests, is dangerously dwindling due to human settlement, deforestation and forest degradation.
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The goals range from expanding renewables to reducing deforestation, to issuing "green bonds" to finance climate-mitigation efforts.
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But climate change, deforestation and agriculture mean the CO2-soaking-up ability of the continents is being depleted.
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"The climate is changing and there is an urgent need to take action to end deforestation," she said.
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In Kalimantan, Indonesia's slice of Borneo, for instance, palm oil was responsible for about 60% of all deforestation.
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But the causality is unclear: the rules of the RSPO in effect ignore deforestation that occurred before 2005.
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I tried to find out about the ecological problems particular to each country: deforestation, ocean contamination, battery farming.
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The majority of the world's palm oil comes from Malaysia and Indonesia, where deforestation has hurt orangutan populations.
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"We know that there's ingrained corruption that supports this excessive deforestation," said Goralewski, a 28-year-old engineer.
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Brazil's Amazon rainforest is facing rapid deforestation under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, the New York Times reports.
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Another cause of deforestation is much closer to home, with many trees cut for charcoal, said PlantAMillion's Chibesakunda.
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That was the year when a "Zero Deforestation Law," supposedly preventing the mass cutting of woodland, was approved.
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This makes it difficult to create accurate climate models and understand how things like deforestation affect climate change.
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That is nearly the land mass of Luxembourg and the most monthly deforestation registered by INPE in years.
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It said the farm had been fined for deforestation and should not have had animals grazing on it.
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Cargill was also named in the report for not doing enough to combat deforestation in its supply chain.
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We're living in an age of staggering wildlife loss due to human development, overfishing, deforestation, and climate change.
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The European Commission published a feasibility study earlier this year, concluding legislation was needed to tackle deforestation effectively.
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To take one example: The Mayan civilization confronted severe environmental challenges, like drought, deforestation, and loss of crops.
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"Even if all 400 (CGF) members certify 100% of their supply chains, deforestation will still happen," he added.
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Agriculture is often cast as an environmental villain, its pesticides tainting water, its hunger for land driving deforestation.
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Reducing deforestation and tilling could help lower these emissions, as could reducing red meat consumption, the report found.
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Countries participating in REDD+ receive payouts for meeting verified emission reduction targets for slowing deforestation over several years.
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He fired the last director of INPE after criticizing agency statistics showing an increase in deforestation in Brazil.
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The fires can largely be attributed to an unprecedented surge in deforestation by cattle operations and feed crops.
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Here, a Greenpeace protest calls deforestation a "crime" near the Brazilian town of Claudia, Mato Gross, in 2005.
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The fires came on the heels of record-breaking deforestation in the Amazon rainforest during July and August.
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In a separate analysis of satellite data, researchers found that indigenous lands could serve as barriers to deforestation.
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Under Lula, the government constrained commercial activity in the region, reducing deforestation by more than seventy per cent.
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Earlier this month, his government disbanded the steering committee for the Amazon Fund, which aims to combat deforestation.
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But in 2016, perhaps driven by climate change or deforestation or both, the deadly virus broke its pattern.
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The Colombia lawsuit calls on the government to halt deforestation in Colombia's Amazon and keep to its promises.
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The Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate says Zimbabwe has a deforestation rate of 330,000 trees per year.
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They, like other tribal and indigenous people, have been persistently depleted by drought, deforestation and illegal land grabs.
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Their bigger size would make it "easier and more accurate" to monitor deforestation and measure emissions, he noted.
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There are also joint research programs, shared commitments on energy or deforestation, and various other bits of bricolage.
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Scientists have said deforestation practices, like logging and burning, could worsen droughts in nearby cities like Sao Paolo.
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If such houses catch on, Wegener believes they could become a major contributor to cutting deforestation in Malawi.
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She said companies needed to work towards a clean palm oil supply chain, and drop traders causing deforestation.
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Seventh Generation Unbleached Paper Towels are made from 100% recycled paper, so their use doesn't contribute to deforestation.
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Pretty soon, this Brazilian administration will be forced to admit that there's nothing to be gained from deforestation.
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However, a much larger number of orangutans were lost in areas where there was less logging and deforestation.
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But with the current pace of wildfires and deforestation, the world is rapidly galloping in the wrong direction.
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In the first month after his election, deforestation increased more than 41.93 percent, compared to the previous year.
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Brazil's INPE reported that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged 2957 percent in June compared to June 230.
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Brazil has actually made huge strides in curbing deforestation and fires in the rainforest in the recent past.
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Brazil's new president plans to allow rapid deforestation, New York magazine writes — potentially creating a climate change catastrophe.
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But the difference is where it's produced: soy farming is a major cause of deforestation in South America.
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"It's a constant effort to shape the situation so you get as little deforestation as possible," Coe said.
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This has frightening implications for the Earth's rapidly heating climate, but so does deforestation much closer to home.
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It said an 80% increase in deforestation has occurred this year compared to the same period last year.
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Experts say deforestation and a practice called slash-and-burn are to blame for most of the flames.
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Controlled burns are also a popular deforestation technique in other countries where the Amazon is burning, including Bolivia.
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This will further encourage deforestation, the loss of water resources and violence against local communities and indigenous peoples.
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Critics say that deforestation caused by the government's policy of increasing farming is to blame for the disaster.
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Indonesia's deforestation rate is half of what it was in the 1990s and will continue to go down.
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Deforestation is a leading cause of the Spix's macaw's disappearance from its natural habitat, according to the report.
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But researchers stressed that the new greenery does not neutralize deforestation and its negative impacts on ecosystems elsewhere.
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Deforestation also increases the rate of evaporation from water bodies already depleted by lack of rain, he said.
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COLOMBIA BRAZILIAN AMAZON PERU BRAZIL BOLIVIA Existing forest Deforestation through 203 Fires in August Brazilian Amazon BRAZIL VEN.
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The study argued against this model for addressing deforestation in frontier areas with high levels of cocaine production.
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People can help by limiting their air travel, avoiding single-use plastics and shunning products that drive deforestation.
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They have had little success, however, in tackling widespread child labour and deforestation in West Africa's cocoa sector.
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Through the initiative, Norway will support Gabon with the funds to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and battle deforestation.
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The relaxation of protections in 2012 under the leftist Workers' Party led deforestation to climb again in Brazil.
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No one is going to suggest large-scale deforestation as a potential solution to wildfires any time soon.
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Deforestation is surging once again in the Brazilian Amazon, climbing 29 percent between August 2015 and July 2016.
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Unchecked deforestation could end up hurting Brazilian farmers if it leads to foreign boycotts of Brazilian farm goods.
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And soy is just one crop behind deforestation, said Stewart Lindsay, Bunge's vice president for global corporate affairs.
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But, he said, Cargill had always understood the declaration to give all signatories until 2030 to tackle deforestation.
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But significant damage was done to the massive, fragile forest by the fires, and by the ongoing deforestation.
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Cattle ranching is the leading driver of deforestation in Brazil, and accounts for 80% of the Amazon destruction.
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Meanwhile, deforestation and forest degradation account for up to 12 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, FAO said.
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Still, deforestation remains well below levels in the early 2000s, before Brazil launched a campaign to fight logging.
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Blackstone has a stake in Hidrovias do Brasil, an infrastructure company reportedly linked to deforestation in the rainforest.
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Governments should enforce laws and regulations, and crack down on the corruption that helps fuel deforestation, she added.
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"To stop fires in the future, we need to avoid deforestation, particularly in lowland peatswamp forests," Smith said.
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But deforestation, farming and fires, especially in the Amazon Basin, are threatening vast tracts of these precious resources.
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Long before Mr. Bolsonaro's rise, numerous agribusiness companies made commitments to end Amazon deforestation from their supply chains.
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The relaxation of protections in 2012 under the leftist Workers' Party led deforestation to climb again in Brazil.
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It recommended policies to curb deforestation and to protect at least 10 percent of marine areas from fishing.
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But it didn't slow deforestation because it didn't change the incentives of the ranchers burning down the forest.
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It has so many different pieces and components, and the non-scientists, the lay person, could explain what Amazonian deforestation has to do with deforestation, has to do with the melting ice sheets, has to do with the wildfires in California, has to do with Syria, but it's not easy.
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For example, a 2010 report from the National Farmers Union and Avoided Deforestation Partners (titled "Farms Here, Forests There") found that ending global deforestation using programs like offsets would boost US agriculture revenue by $190 billion to $270 billion between 2012 and 2030 through limiting harmful environmental and climate changes.
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The United Nations set up a program, known as REDD Plus (for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation), to channel $10 billion from wealthy donors like Norway and Japan to poorer nations to slow deforestation trends responsible for about 10 percent of man-made greenhouse gas emissions each year.
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Brazil will take action if concerns about an increase in deforestation are confirmed, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday.
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Eddie Bauer will match donations up to 75,000 trees to help begin to counteract deforestation and save endangered ecosystems.
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Mighty Earth recorded 13,748 hectares of deforestation - equivalent to 15,000 football fields - in Ivory Coast's southwest region between Nov.
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Here, in Indonesia, oil palm plantations have been one of the largest drivers of deforestation in the last decade.
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That is the largest monthly deforestation registered by the agency in years and nearly the land mass of Luxembourg.
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On the Tree website people can find out more about these issues and find practical ways to stop deforestation.
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As a result of deforestation, species will become extinct at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than that.
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The Center for Biological Diversity estimates that 95 percent of the marten&aposs habitat has disappeared due to deforestation.
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Dias' comments come as Brazil faces increasing criticism, particularly abroad, regarding environmental issues such as deforestation and pesticide regulations.
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Deforestation also removes wild fruits and vegetables that are a local food source and destroys the habitats of animals.
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To combat land theft by powerful agricultural interests, IBAMA began naming and shaming businessmen involved in deforestation in 2008.
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"Every act of deforestation has an economic purpose behind it," IBAMA official Jair Schmitt told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The rate of deforestation has fallen by nearly 80 percent since 2003, according to a study published last year.
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Deforestation in tropical areas is a particular concern because every minute about 40 football fields of tropical trees vanish.
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In the tropics, high temperatures caused by climate change and deforestation cause certain stomata to close, killing the trees.
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What is the mood of activists who have been trying to call attention to this issue and fight deforestation?
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The threats come from deforestation, agriculture, overfishing, and pollution, and are all linked to legal exports to those countries.
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The single largest operation ever conducted to combat illegal deforestation in the Amazon took place recently, on June 5th.
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That law aims to curb deforestation, which peaked in 22010 at a pace of 1003,2100 square km per year.
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Environmentalists have warned that his controversial plans for more agriculture and mining in the region will speed up deforestation.
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The move comes amid increasing fears surrounding deforestation, which data suggest has soared since Bolsonaro took power in January.
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While halting deforestation is a necessary step, it will not be enough to fix Freetown's water shortage, officials said.
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We need an immediate end to the expansion of fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure and an end to deforestation.
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Due to deforestation, illegal trading and poaching, there are only 10,000 of these precious creatures left in the wild.
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A recent study by Kemen Austin of RTI International, another NGO, looked at the causes of deforestation in Indonesia.
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In 2010 the international community, concerned about deforestation, pushed the Madagascan government to close the loophole allowing rosewood exports.
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To be sure, tiger populations are still critically endangered, and face continued threats from deforestation, habitat loss and poachers.
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Across the world, the need for more food production encourages deforestation and the use of more land for agriculture.
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"These are places where farms have been abandoned, or where there's been deforestation and it's been left," he explains.
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It introduced a green-growth initiative to tackle deforestation, build more small-scale hydroelectric projects and overhaul national parks.
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They worry about the environment: Cambodia is suffering rapid deforestation, often following illegal land grabs by well-connected businessmen.
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"Climate problems come from bad management of natural resources," he said, noting that deforestation of mountain slopes worsens erosion.
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Experts say decades of mass deforestation have led to soil erosion where sediment is washed downstream from mountainous areas.
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Scientists say heavy rain, lots of deforestation, poorly made homes and dense populations can all put residents at risk.
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They played a crucial role in pressuring soy and beef companies in Brazil to reduce deforestation of the Amazon.
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"In the long-term you need to solve the problem of property rights to bring down deforestation," Szerman said.
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That law aims to curb deforestation, which peaked in 2000 at a pace of 22010,1003 square km per year.
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A shooting in California leaves four dead, including the shooter, and 12 injured; under Brazil's Bolsonaro, Amazon deforestation accelerates.
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To achieve more sustainable targets, the government will adopt policies to increase agriculture productivity and prevent deforestation, Brodjonegoro said.
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That's bad, considering land use and deforestation account for 40 percent of the global rise in carbon dioxide emissions.
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Deforestation in Brazil more than tripled in July over the year, data from Brazil's INPE space research agency shows.
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And he has pledged to loosen regulatory regimes over land-use and deforestation in the world's largest tropical rainforest.
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That was the second rise in two years, ending a 10-year period in which deforestation was dramatically reduced.
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And they also drive up deforestation, adding to what has already been a really bad year for the Amazon.
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Ethiopia has a history of deforestation due in part to its rapidly growing population, unsustainable farming, and climate change.
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The minister said he would meet governors of Amazon states on Wednesday to further discuss tactics to counter deforestation.
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Deforestation in Apútzio is a recent problem and far less extensive than in other areas of Michoacán, experts said.
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Indigenous territories – the best defense against deforestation – are seeing land invasions and assassinations of their leaders when they resist.
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It is also key to meeting another goal in Brazil's U.N. climate plan: to eliminate illegal deforestation by 2030.
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FAO also plans to monitor deforestation in Uganda, which has received 600,000 South Sudanese refugees so far, he added.
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Deforestation over the decades has displaced some of the dozens of indigenous groups in Malaysia from their customary land.
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GTA documents could be the "holy grail for ending deforestation", said Gibbs, by acting as a passport for cattle.
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Norway is spending almost $3.7 billion a year on efforts in Brazil, Liberia and other countries to curb deforestation.
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Deforestation and the encroachment of human habitations have resulted in increased contact between people and animals in rural India.
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As trees burn in wildfires or rot following deforestation, the carbon they sequestered is put back into the atmosphere.
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In doing so, "Tree Mountain" literally and conceptually confronts climate change, desertification, deforestation, legal structures of reclamation, and more.
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Their main achievement this year was a 16 percent reduction in Amazon deforestation, following several years of steady rise.
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Haiti's struggle with deforestation is well known, making these types of unadulterated visions of nature all the more precious.
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Deforestation is now a significant global source of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas that is warming the planet.
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Two other causes of population decline are deforestation in their Mexican wintering grounds and, you guessed it, climate change.
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The satellite data also provided a clearer picture of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forests, long vulnerable to widespread deforestation.
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Companies should, however, remain on high alert to try and keep their supply chains free of deforestation, they added.
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"It's important for you to understand that all acts of deforestation in Indonesia start with a signature," he said.
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In the Amazon, deforestation has long been caused by illegal ranching, logging and the conversion of forests into farms.
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"If we keep up in this rhythm in this agribusiness model, the deforestation of the planet will come soon."
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An 27% increase in deforestation has occurred so far this year compared to last year, according to the institute.
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The Ministry of the Environment also scrapped the division between the control and prevention of deforestation and climate change.
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An 85% increase in deforestation has occurred so far this year compared to last year, according to the institute.
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"JBS has an unwavering commitment to combat, discourage and eliminate deforestation in the Amazon region," said the company statement.
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Growing deforestation by illegal loggers also threatens the existence of Beka's 13,000 fellow Mundurukus who live off the forest.
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Deforestation in Southeast Asia is driven primarily by palm oil production and in South America, by beef and soy.
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"Deforestation data for the last three months also shows a very sharp increase," said Mr. Nobre, the climate scientist.
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According to WHO, environmental changes such as urbanization, crowding and deforestation bring populations into closer contact with wild animals.
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Cool Effect is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting global greenhouse gas-reducing projects like deforestation prevention and methane capture.
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After a decline in deforestation rates, the region has seen a recent uptick, most notably in Brazil's Amazon region.
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According to the World Wildlife Fund, the species has been decimated by habitat deforestation, poaching, and human–elephant conflict.
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By the early 2010s, the rate of Amazon deforestation was one-fourth what it had been a decade earlier.
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As large farms clear land to make room for oil palms, deforestation and forest fires can occur, threatening biodiversity.
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Widespread deforestation dates back decades, but since the early 2000s, the Brazilian government had the problem largely under control.
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Since then, deforestation in the world's largest rainforest has been accelerating, with rates of destruction skyrocketing in recent months.
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They were responsible for 2900 percent of the fire counts and 220006 percent of the accumulated deforestation this year.
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Amazon deforestation is accelerating, and murders of the region's indigenous people went up 23 percent from 2017 to 2018.
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As deforestation and climate change cause more severe droughts, fires in virgin forests will become more frequent and extensive.
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Deforestation in the tropical rainforest regions has certainly not stopped; the treatment of farmers in rainforests is still awful.
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As part of its obligations under the Paris Agreement, the government pledged to eliminate illegal Amazon deforestation by 2030.
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In a document known as the Cerrado Manifesto, they called for immediate action to stop deforestation in the region.
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Walmart said all its beef suppliers in the Cerrado are monitored to ensure they don't contribute to deforestation there.
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"Rehabilitation centers may even make the deforestation process worse," said Erik Meijaard, director of Borneo Futures, a conservation group.
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The good: Private, Earth-observing satellites can also be used for disaster management, deforestation monitoring, shipping and other applications.
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"We believe that negative synergies between deforestation, climate change, and widespread use of fire indicate a tipping point for the Amazon system to flip to non-forest ecosystems in eastern, southern and central Amazonia at 290-22018% deforestation," wrote researchers Carlos Nobre and Thomas Lovejoy in an editorial in the journal Science Advances.
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"We believe that negative synergies between deforestation, climate change, and widespread use of fire indicate a tipping point for the Amazon system to flip to non-forest ecosystems in eastern, southern, and central Amazonia at 20-25% deforestation," Carlos Nobre and Thomas Lovejoy wrote in a 2018 editorial in the journal Science Advances.
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Reducing deforestation and forest degradation could result in a reduction of 0.4-5.8 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent, the report said.
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Damiao has a doctorate in sustainable development and his thesis was on deforestation in the Amazon, according to the announcement.
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In fact, as the world worries about deforestation, the total area of forests in France is actually on the rise.
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The protein system is over-dependent on soy for animal feed, and the cultivation of soy in turn drives deforestation.
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The paper also noted that deforestation and construction of hydro-power plants could play a role in water-level changes.
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Deforestation has exacerbated the problem, with the lack of trees making farmers working in fields a target for lightning strikes.
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By looking down from high above, scientists can track things like deforestation and even produce traffic models, Urthecast has said.
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If not, then ask the company what it is doing to address deforestation risk in its palm oil supply chain.
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"BlackRock manages $6 trillion in prisons, in detention, in war, in military, in fossil fuels, and in deforestation," she continued.
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In the six seven years since the agreement with FARC, areas that were once under rebel control are experiencing deforestation.
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"(HSBC) claims its policies 'prohibit the finance of deforestation', although many companies that it funds are destroying forests," Greenpeace added.
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The worst month by far was July, with an astronomical 278 percent increase in deforestation as compared to July 2018.
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We do not participate in any deforestation practices, and for every tree we use, at least one is re-grown.
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Several studies have shown that palm oil is a major contributor to deforestation, along with cattle ranching and soybean production.
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"The claims linking palm oil to deforestation is baseless, unfair and unjustified," Mahathir said at an event on Malaysian forests.
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But a new study suggests these programs would do well to also preserve forests where deforestation and degradation haven't begun.
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It states, for example, that deforestation peaked in the mid-1990s and was reduced by 72% between 2004 and 2018.
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"The deforestation we are seeing is being done illegally by farmers and land grabbers and must be investigated," he said.
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In order to fight deforestation, she developed and funded two nurseries that grow indigenous trees for replanting in the desert.
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So, no deforestation - we are completely against it forestation because of the purpose -- creating a healthier planet for our children.
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Satellite images show that in 2017 the rate of deforestation in Indonesia fell to its lowest level in two decades.
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Dias responded by thanking Bundchen on Twitter for her message and saying they should work together to combat illegal deforestation.
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Between the lines: Deforestation for the sake of economic growth had already been a marketable stance prior to Bolsonaro's leadership.
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The government has said only the consolidated annual data, known as PRODES, should be used to calculate increases in deforestation.
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Deforestation and land clearing for pulp paper and palm oil plantations has depleted the habitat of Bornean and Sumatran orangutans.
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Environmentalists warn that the move could hurt enforcement of laws limiting deforestation in sensitive biomes such as the Amazon rainforest.
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But the Commission's own estimates show that at least 8 percent of global soybean expansion caused direct deforestation since 85033.
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Ibama imposes embargoes on land where illegal deforestation has taken place, as punishment and to allow the land to recover.
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Human activities, like fossil fuel consumption and widespread deforestation, are contributing to climate change by disrupting the global carbon cycle.
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Deforestation, caused mainly by illegal logging and smuggling, and poor planning for public infrastructure exacerbate flood risks, the report added.
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They found that hundreds of species are at risk due to land-use changes such as deforestation and industrial agriculture.
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A triple whammy of disease, climate change, and deforestation has threatened around 22015 percent of the planet's wild coffee species.
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This is particularly important in regions where we must adhere to regulatory frameworks that promote zero deforestation and sustainable agriculture.
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Firstly, a formal agreement for advancing REDD — which stands for "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" — was finally approved.
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On Saturday, we had an opportunity to rouse world leaders to address the twin perils of deforestation and climate change.
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A triple whammy of disease, climate change, and deforestation has threatened around 60 percent of the planet's wild coffee species.
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A solution to the haze and deforestation problem can be found only when "all of us work together", she said.
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Last month, the European Commission determined that palm has resulted in excessive deforestation and its use should be phased out.
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The new climate change policy aims to help cut emissions by industry, energy producers, agriculture, and deforestation, among other sources.
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It takes twice the land and deforestation to feed people on meat-based diets than to feed vegetarians and vegans.
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The search became a race against time because deforestation was taking away vika's habitat -- the canopy of the island's rainforest.
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A new study says companies that use tax havens are disproportionately responsible for deforestation in the Amazon, BBC News reports.
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Agriculture is the biggest single driver of deforestation, stripping away forests that reduce climate change by absorbing and storing carbon.
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In October, the country's environment ministry said that overall Amazon deforestation fell 16 percent for the year through July 2017.
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Deforestation and fires are linked, since setting blazes is one of the main ways people clear land in the Amazon.
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The fires were predominantly caused by Brazilian farmers as part of deforestation, a move Bolsonaro has supported in the past.
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And while the country's progress eventually slowed—deforestation rates have been climbing since 2014—that time hasn't run out yet.
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New construction could threaten the environment Borneo's deforestation has slowed in recent years as palm-oil prices have gone down.
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Following deforestation, the massive carbon banks tied up in rainforest trees, vines and shrubs are gone for the long term.
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It also created protected areas in zones of land conflict as a means to tamp down rampant fire and deforestation.
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The advocacy group Greenpeace Brazil told The Hill that fires have increased in areas most affected by rises in deforestation.
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The standards aim to reduce deforestation, preserve bio-diversity and respect the rights of plantation workers, smallholders and local communities.
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Perhaps the thing that worries me the most is the massive deforestation underway in areas like Asia and Latin America.
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Germany has also suspended 35 million euros ($39 million) in funding of Amazon preservation in Brazil due to increasing deforestation.
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Deforestation has resulted in major losses of the bee's native habitat in the lowland forests of the North Maluku islands.
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The world's largest rainforest is integral to climate change mitigation, so cutting back on deforestation is an urgent global issue.
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The article has been updated to clarify that the acidification of the ocean and deforestation are important additional environmental issues.
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Narco-deforestation, as it's known, has long been a problem, but America's opioid epidemic is almost certainly making it worse.
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They are threatened by habitat fragmentation and loss as a result of deforestation and other human activities, the zoo said.
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The Scandinavian country has become the first in the world to pledge not to use products that contribute to deforestation.
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The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies estimates that cattle ranchers cause 80% of the deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
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He was not antidrug in a moralistic way, but alarmed by the deforestation caused by coca cultivation, his daughter said.
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After Haiti's successful war of independence in 1804, former slaves got access to the country's land, and deforestation continued apace.
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