In Brazil, thousands of square kilometers of rainforest are destroyed each year, and this year’s depletion of nature reaches its highest level since 2008: According to the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment, a total of 7900 square kilometers of forest were cut between August 2017 and July 2018.

This corresponds to an area of ​​more than one million soccer fields!!

Deforestation has risen by more than 13 percent since last year. Environment Minister Edson Duarte cited illegal logging as the reason and blamed “increased organized crime”. Brazil must expand the fight against environmental violations and protect the sustainable development of the biome.

Most trees were cleared in the states of Pará and Mato Grosso. Mato Grosso grows much of Brazil’s grain.

Mato Grosso

According to critics, the forest has to give way above all to expanding agriculture.

The rainforest in the Amazon region is the largest on Earth. Much of the forest lies on Brazilian territory. Newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro had announced in the election campaign to have a road paved through the rainforest. He is also considering merging the environment with the Ministry of Agriculture. Minister Duarte warned against the merger. Critics fear that environmental protection, with the merger behind the interests of the powerful agricultural lobbies must stand behind.

Rooted forest areas on the edge of the Juruena National Park in the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil

In the past year, the deforestation of the rainforest had fallen by 16 percent compared to the previous year and amounted to almost 7,000 square kilometers. The lowest level was reached in 2012, when only 4500 square kilometers of forest were cleared.

In 2004, the then government adopted measures to combat deforestation. In the year, an area the size of Haiti – over 27,000 square kilometers was cut down.

http://www.tellerreport.com/tech/brazil–deforestation-of-the-rainforest-reaches-its-highest-level-in-10-years.H1dKOTLR7.html

My comment: nature does not need us, we need nature.

If we destroy its last resources, who won?

Best regards, Venus

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Protect Whales and Dolphins from Seismic Blasting

The Trump administration just gave fossil fuel companies the green light to explore for oil and gas off our Atlantic coast using deafening seismic airguns.

Meanwhile, Congress is considering bad legislation that would slash critical protections for ocean wildlife. While NRDC continues to fight the administration in court, you can help protect whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals by keeping the pressure on Congress to stand strong against Trump’s giveaway to Big Oil.

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The Trump administration just gave fossil fuel companies the green light to explore for oil and gas off our Atlantic coast using deafening seismic airguns — which will cause senseless harm to thousands of whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals, including endangered species like the North Atlantic right whale.

At the same time, Congress is considering bad legislation that would slash critical protections for majestic ocean wildlife when we need them more than ever. But, there’s also major bipartisan support for strong legislation that would help keep the Atlantic coast off-limits to destructive seismic exploration.

Tell your senators and representative to stand strong against Trump’s giveaway to Big Oil by opposing any attempts to expand seismic oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic — and push for strong legislation to protect our cherished coastline and save whales!

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SIGN: Shut Down Cruel ‘Whale Prison’ off Russian Coast

Posted by Katie Valentine

PETITION TARGET: Sergey Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the U.S.

Over 100 whales are illegally confined in appalling conditions in the waters off Russia’s Pacific Coast, in what the local media has appropriately nicknamed a “whale prison.”

Kept in cramped, tiny cages, some of the whales have been unscrupulously sold to Chinese aquariums, in direct violation of an international ban on commercial whale hunting that restricts the sale of these intelligent marine mammals.

In early November, a disturbing video appeared online, showing one of these whales being torturously hoisted by a crane in preparation for transport to an unspecified destination.

Between 2013 and 2016, 13 Orcas were reportedly exported to China by unnamed companies, who sold their helpless victims for as much as $6 million each — quite possibly profiting from China’s booming marine park industry.

Even more disturbingly, evidence shows that some of these cruel cages contain infants, which is illegal under all circumstances.

Petition Link – https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-shut-cruel-whale-prison-off-russian-coast/

Russia is believed to be the only country in the world that exports wild Orcas, and if nothing is done to stop this, the rate at which they’re being caught and killed will ultimately lead to the species’ demise.

Until recently, the cruel imprisonment of these endangered whales was shrouded in mystery and deceit. It is imperative to race against the clock to ensure the survival of what’s left of these already-threatened species.

Sign this petition urging the Russian Ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, to do everything in his power to shut down the whale prison and halt all whale trading out of Russia’s waters.

Petition Link – https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-shut-cruel-whale-prison-off-russian-coast/