MAAP #199: Amazon Carbon Update, based on NASA’s GEDI Mission
As we approach the COP28 climate summit, starting in Dubai in late November, we provide here a concise update on the current state of remaining Amazon carbon reserves. We present the newly updated...
View ArticleMAAP #195: Gold Mining Deforestation in the Southern Peruvian Amazon, 2021-2023
In the context of overall Amazon gold mining, where illegal mining is rampant, southern Peru is an important case study given that the government has created the “Mining Corridor“, where mining is...
View ArticleMAAP #201: Amazon Deforestation & Carbon Update for 2023
As national policymakers begin the global COP28 climate summit in Dubai, we provide here a concise update on the current state of Amazon forest loss and remaining carbon reserves, both based on the...
View ArticleMAAP #200: State of the Amazon in 2023
The first MAAP report, published in March 2015, took a detailed look at the escalating gold mining deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. The following 198 reports, over the past 8.5 years, continued to...
View ArticleMAAP #202: Protecting Strategic, Free-flowing River Corridors in the...
Here, we present a model river conservation strategy proposed by the Ecuadorian Rivers Institute, designed to protect strategic free-flowing river corridors with intact surrounding forests in the...
View ArticleMAAP #203: Massive Planned Deforestation in Amazon of Suriname
In a recent article, the environmental science news platform Mongabay reported that, according to their review of official documents, the government of Suriname is preparing to clear large tracts of...
View ArticleMAAP #204: New Road Construction in Waorani Indigenous Territory (Ecuadorian...
We analyze a new road project that enters the western sector of the Waorani Indigenous Territory, located in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon (see Base Map, below). The project, called “Construction...
View ArticleMAAP #206: Rapid expansion of illegal mining in Ecuadorian Amazon
In a series of previous reports, we warned about the emergence of alluvial mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon, specifically in the area around the Punino River, located between the provinces of Napo and...
View ArticleMAAP #207: Removing Illegal Mining from Sacred Tepui in Yapacana National...
Last year, in collaboration with the organization SOS Orinooco, we published an urgent report about illegal mining on top of a sacred tepui in the heart of Yapacana National Park in Venezuela (MAAP...
View ArticleMAAP #211: Illegal roads and Deforestation in Indigenous Reserves & National...
Illegal roads are a major threat to the Colombian Amazon, often opening remote primary forests to the main drivers of deforestation: cattle pastures, land grabbing and coca production. These illegal...
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