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Your favourite major chocolate maker may use cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest
[ad_1] OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria – Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest…
Malaysian conservationist takes hotel training into the rainforest
[ad_1] What are the challenges of this role? “The challenges are the same as the things I love and enjoy. Being gripped every day by the reality of new information…
World’s largest tropical rainforest threatened by Brazilian highway
[ad_1] The highway through Brazil’s Amazon rainforest could trigger a wave of illegal deforestation. ADVERTISEMENT Brazil lawmakers have passed a bill to pave a highway through the heart of the…
Brazilian lawmakers pass bill to pave highway through Amazon rainforest
[ad_1] The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say will…
Takeaways on AP’s investigation into cocoa coming from a protected Nigerian rainforest
[ad_1] OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria — Habitat for a dwindling population of critically endangered African forest elephants is under threat, a casualty of the world’s appetite for chocolate. Deforestation driven…
Germany pledges funds to help Brazil defend Amazon rainforest
[ad_1] [1/2]German Development Minister Svenja Schulze attends a news conference after a meeting with Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva in Brasilia, Brazil January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo Acquire Licensing…
UNM Anderson school hosted the Bi-Annual Rainforest Pitch Competition
[ad_1] The University of New Mexico Anderson’s Innovation Academy hosted the fall 2023 Rainforest Pitch Competition Nov. 8 at Bow and Arrow Brewing Co. in partnership with UNM Rainforest Innovations.…
AI is coming to the rescue of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest
[ad_1] AI boxes tied to trees are battling destructive jungle invaders in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. ADVERTISEMENT Small, artificially intelligent (AI) boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are…
The Japanese firms and megabanks funding rainforest destruction
[ad_1] Roads built through untouched forest in a bid to find oil deposits or start logging. Vast areas cleared to make way for plantations and farmland. Trees cut down to…