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Boost for Scotland’s rainforest recovery as RSPB takes on nature reserve

Potential recovery for Scotland’s rainforest has been given a boost as RSPB Scotland takes on stewardship of Glencripesdale nature reserve. Responsibility for the former national nature reserve, located on the tip of the Morvern Peninsula on the ...

01 Aug 2022 at 01:01

World

Brazil moves toward paving road which is key to Amazon deforestation

Brazil’s government has granted a preliminary environmental permit for paving a dirt road that cuts through one of the Amazon rainforest’s most preserved areas. The road known as BR-319 runs for about 560 miles and is the only road connecting ...

29 Jul 2022 at 22:30

New efforts to protect African forest elephants in Gabon for nature and climate

Critically endangered forest elephants play a key role in conserving rainforests that are crucial wildlife habitats and carbon stores, experts in the animals’ stronghold say. Officials in Gabon, central Africa, are implementing measures to ...

09 May 2022 at 01:55

Livestock can help reforestation process if managed carefully – research

The presence of grazing animals can be both a help and a hindrance to meeting the UK’s tree planting targets, new research has found. A study by ecologists at the University of Plymouth found that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to ...

31 Jan 2022 at 02:25

World

Amazon Summit ends with plan to protect rainforests but no measurable goals

Brazil’s Amazon Summit has closed with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests but without concrete commitments to end deforestation. Leaders and ministers from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration in Belem, Brazil, that laid out ...

10 Aug 2023 at 08:54

World

Relatives fight for custody of children who survived Amazon jungle plane crash

A custody battle has broken out among relatives of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and 40 days alone in the Amazon rainforest. The children were travelling with their mother from the Amazonian village of Araracuara ...

13 Jun 2023 at 07:38

World

Jair Bolsonaro yet to concede defeat or challenge Brazil’s election results

A full day after Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro lost his bid for re-election, the right-wing leader had neither conceded defeat nor challenged the results of the country’s closest political contest in more than three decades. Mr ...

01 Nov 2022 at 06:59

World

Lorry drivers backing Bolsonaro block hundreds of roads in election protest

Brazilian truckers supportive of President Jair Bolsonaro blocked hundreds of roads to protest against his election loss to former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Since the left-wing Mr da Silva’s’s victory on Sunday night, ...

01 Nov 2022 at 18:11

World

Germany pledges £179m to help preserve Brazil’s rainforest

German development minister Svenja Schulze has announced her government will make 222 million dollars (£179 million) available for environmental policies in Brazil. Of this, 38 million dollars (£30.7 million) is a donation to ...

30 Jan 2023 at 17:10

World

Brazilians deliver tight win to Lula da Silva in bitter presidential election

Brazilians delivered a very tight victory to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a bitter presidential election, giving the leftist former president another shot at power in a rejection of incumbent Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right ...

31 Oct 2022 at 07:11

Scotland

Beavers pave way for return of endangered water voles to Scottish rainforest

Beavers reintroduced to a Scottish rainforest in 2009 may have created the “right conditions” for another native species to flourish, according to conservationists. Water voles, once abundant in Scotland but now one ...

17 Jun 2024 at 10:40

World

Amazon deforestation in Brazil ‘down to lowest level since 2016’

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released on Wednesday. It is the largest reduction since 2016, when officials ...

07 Aug 2024 at 21:17

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