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Rescuing rainforests
Maps of the Brazilian Amazon in 2000 and 2010 show unmistakable signs of dramatic change. Indigenous lands and several categories of protected areas now occupy millions of hectares, forming a consolidated landscape of conservation. But it might not have been so.
New Project Focuses on the Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil
Early this year, implementation began for an integrated project dealing with climate, biodiversity and disaster risk reduction in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.
New Regional Program to Protect the Amazon
Joint World Bank Group/Global Environment Facility Press Release
GEF project gives boost to climate action
Washington DC, October 21, 2015 – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council approved today a first-of-its-kind multi-million dollar project to help protect over 80 percent of the Amazon and boost efforts to combat climate change.
GEF Amazon Project - Water Resources and Climate Change
By María Eugenia Corvalán, Communication Specialist, GEF Amazon Project
Sustainable agro forestry development in the indigenous community Piaroa of Gavilán in the Amazon state, Venezuela
Traditionally, indigenous populations of the Venezuelan Amazon, which were mostly nomadic until a few decades ago, applied ancestral agricultural techniques that helped preserve the forest due to their seasonal rotation.
Today, most of those formerly nomadic communities have settled permanently. They continue to grow their produce in fixed locations resulting in significant land degradation in some areas, and mass shelling of trees in others.