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By Maxwell Radwin The cattle ranching industry in Brazil is one of the largest in the world, but it could see huge financial losses if it doesn’t adapt to climate change and increasingly rigorous deforestation policies to protect the Amazon, a new report says. Domestic beef production in Brazil could drop by 25% by 2050 as governments and the private sector look to step up climate change and forest conservation strategies, according to a new report from Orbitas, an initiative of Climate Advisers. The industry will have to find ways to adapt soon or else risk major losses. “The future of the Br...
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By Maxwell Radwin The government in Suriname said it cancelled a controversial pilot program that would have brought hundreds of Mennonites to the country to carry out agricultural activity, likely in forested areas. Suriname President Chan Santokhi confirmed to local media this week that he shuttered a pilot program setting aside 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) for 50 Mennonite families, easing some fears that the country was on the verge of destroying large parts of the Amazon Rainforest. “We in the international conservation movement congratulate President Santokhi and the people of Suriname...
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By Maxwell Radwin By now, dozens of countries have some version of a forestry incentive program, with the government paying local property owners to keep their trees in the ground. But a lot of the programs have come under scrutiny because they’re easy to manipulate and hard to monitor. The one in Ecuador, Socio Bosque, one of the first in Latin America, is no exception. Since its creation in 2008, it’s been criticized for failing to pay participants and for mismanaging who’s applying for which plots of land. A conflict over thousands of hectares of Chocó forest in the Imbabura and Pichincha p...
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By Maxwell Radwin It was supposed to be a major milestone, back in 2014, when hundreds of governments and companies came together to sign the New York Declaration on Forests, aimed at eliminating natural forest loss worldwide. But many of the declaration’s goals have come and gone over the last decade, and companies continue to lag behind on meeting future ones. One organization, Global Canopy, a U.K.-based not-for-profit, has been monitoring major players in the private sector since the declaration was signed. Its database, named Forest 500 because of the 350 companies and 150 financial insti...
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By Maxwell Radwin A new lawsuit in New York claims that one of the world’s largest beef producers has been misleading the public about its efforts to curb deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against JBS USA Food Company and JBS USA Food Company Holdings for misrepresenting plans to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. In reality, the company lacks concrete sustainability calculations and even plans to expand operations, the lawsuit claims. “JBS Group and JBS USA have used greenwashing and misleading statements to cap...
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By Maxwell Radwin The cattle ranching industry in Brazil is deforesting one of the country’s largest ecosystems without proper authorization, often with the financial backing of major international banks. Some of the country’s largest meatpackers are clearing parts of the Cerrado at an even faster rate than the Amazon Rainforest, a new report from U.K.-based NGO Global Witness says. The savanna ecosystem covers about a fifth of Brazilian territory and is an important carbon sink helping combat climate change. “Like its neighbor the Amazon, it is being destroyed to feed the world’s appetite for...
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By Maxwell Radwin The government in Ecuador is looking for ways to keep open a controversial oil block in the Amazon Rainforest, defying the results of a referendum to close the operation due to pollution and public health risks. Officials said they are considering ways to avoid closing the 43-ITT oil block, located inside Yasuní National Park in the eastern Amazon, despite the results of a national referendum last year to halt drilling. “The entire system of the rule of law is at risk if the people’s will isn’t fulfilled,” said Pedro Bermeo, a spokesperson for YASunidos, an anti-extractives g...
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By Maxwell Radwin MEXICO CITY — The trafficking of valuable fish bladders found in Mexico appears to be on the rise online and on social media, and it’s having a ripple effect on other endangered species in the region. Dried swim bladders, or “maw,” of totoaba, an endangered fish found in the Gulf of California in northern Mexico, are being increasingly trafficked on digital platforms, according to a report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an environmental NGO. The demand for totoaba has impacted other animals that get caught in the same gillnets, most notably vaquitas, the s...
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By Maxwell Radwin U.S. sanctions imposed in 2022 against Nicaragua’s mining industry were supposed to help combat a bloody wave of human rights abuses against local communities. But several years later, some aspects of the sanctions still aren’t being enforced, allowing mining companies to continue operations and even expand into new parts of the country. Numerous mines are still operating like normal, according to a new report from the Oakland Institute, a thinktank focused on social and environmental issues, contributing to escalating violence against Indigenous communities and the destructi...
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On Thursday, a federal judge revoked offshore drilling leases granted by the Biden administration for 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico. A union of environmental groups sued the administration to stop the lease sale. “We are pleased that the court invalidated Interior’s illegal lease sale,” Earthjustice senior attorney Brettny Hardy said in a statement. “We simply cannot continue to make investments in the fossil fuel industry to the peril of our communities and increasingly warming planet.” The Trump administration had ordered the lease sale and the Biden administration tried to stop it....
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