Norway blunt with Brazil on forest-protection concerns

June 2017

Region

Latin nations, U.S. states collaborating on climate

More than 1,000 miles apart, Mexico and the U.S. state of Washington nevertheless have close ties. Like the humpback whales that depart the U.S. Northwest ......

Ecuador

Logging, poaching causing tension in Yasuní Park

Penti Baihua was a child in the 1970s when his father, Ahua, his grandfather, Mipo, and other indigenous Waorani warriors armed with spears prevented “white ......

Brazil

Veto of Brazilian protected-area bills questioned

Brazilian President Michel Temer this month unexpectedly vetoed two highly controversial bills that would have substantially downsized two protected areas, thereby allowing more land clearing ......

Region

Coca role in deforestation downplayed in studies

For years, U.S. and Andean-nation policymakers have viewed the production of coca for cocaine as a major driver of deforestation in such countries as Bolivia, ......

Costa Rica

Short of rangers, Costa Rican parks in disarray

On Feb. 19, buses and cattle trucks lumbered into Los Patos, on the edge of Costa Rica’s remote Osa Peninsula on the country’s southern Pacific ......

Around the Region

Norway blunt with Brazil on forest-protection concerns

Norway expressed concern this month that Brazil’s forest-protection efforts “might be in retreat,” then announced its 2017 donations to a Brazilian-run forest conservation fund would ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Baja mining push draws broad opposition

The mineral-rich Baja California peninsula is no stranger to gold fever and its environmental cost. During the 19th century, miners burrowed into its rocky ground ......

Q&A

Sarukhán: humans must recognize dependence on other species

José Sarukhán Kermez, one of the world’s foremost ecologists, is the 2017 recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award administered by the ......

Norway blunt with Brazil on forest-protection concerns

Norway expressed concern this month that Brazil’s forest-protection efforts “might be in retreat,” then announced its 2017 donations to a Brazilian-run forest conservation fund would not exceed US$35 million—barely over a third of its average $110 million in annual contributions. Since 2008 Norway has accounted for $1.1 billion of the $1.135 billion in contributions to the Amazon Fund, which was created to reduce Brazilian Amazon deforestation, boost forest conservation, reforest degraded areas and promote sustainable development. Germany has donated $28 million. Norway’s comments came in an unusually frank letter Norwegian Climate and Environment Minister Vidar Helgesen sent June 19 to Brazilian Environment Minister José Sarney Filho. The letter was delivered three days before the start of a two-day state visit... [Log in to read more]

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June 2017

Region

Latin nations, U.S. states collaborating on climate

More than 1,000 miles apart, Mexico and the U.S. state of Washington nevertheless have close ties. Like the humpback whales that depart the U.S. Northwest ......

Ecuador

Logging, poaching causing tension in Yasuní Park

Penti Baihua was a child in the 1970s when his father, Ahua, his grandfather, Mipo, and other indigenous Waorani warriors armed with spears prevented “white ......

Brazil

Veto of Brazilian protected-area bills questioned

Brazilian President Michel Temer this month unexpectedly vetoed two highly controversial bills that would have substantially downsized two protected areas, thereby allowing more land clearing ......

Region

Coca role in deforestation downplayed in studies

For years, U.S. and Andean-nation policymakers have viewed the production of coca for cocaine as a major driver of deforestation in such countries as Bolivia, ......

Costa Rica

Short of rangers, Costa Rican parks in disarray

On Feb. 19, buses and cattle trucks lumbered into Los Patos, on the edge of Costa Rica’s remote Osa Peninsula on the country’s southern Pacific ......

Around the Region

Norway blunt with Brazil on forest-protection concerns

Norway expressed concern this month that Brazil’s forest-protection efforts “might be in retreat,” then announced its 2017 donations to a Brazilian-run forest conservation fund would ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Baja mining push draws broad opposition

The mineral-rich Baja California peninsula is no stranger to gold fever and its environmental cost. During the 19th century, miners burrowed into its rocky ground ......

Q&A

Sarukhán: humans must recognize dependence on other species

José Sarukhán Kermez, one of the world’s foremost ecologists, is the 2017 recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award administered by the ......