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2. Amazon Fund - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon Fund (in Portuguese: Fundo Amazônia) is an initiative created by the Brazilian Government and managed by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). It was established on 1 August 2008, with the aim of attracting donations for non-reimbursable investments in actions for the prevention, monitoring, and combat of ...

3. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]

4. Amazon Region Protected Areas Program - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA) originated in a 1998 promise by the Brazilian government to triple the area of the Amazon that was legally protected. The program was launched in 2003, supported by government agencies, NGOs and major donors. [1] The program is based on a major two-year planning exercise with experts from ...

5. Brazil's Amazon drought disrupts residents' lives - AOL

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   Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by record-low levels on upper stretches of the Amazon River. In the town ...

6. Brazil to allow miles of selective logging in effort to ... - AOL

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   July 23, 2024 at 12:19 PM. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — To combat ongoing destruction in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil announced a plan Tuesday to dramatically expand selective logging to an area the ...

7. Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge ...

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   Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. ... the largest contributors to Brazil’s Amazon Fund for sustainable development, were ...

8. Amazon River - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon basin, the largest in the world, covers about 40% of South America, an area of approximately 7,050,000 km 2 (2,720,000 sq mi). It drains from west to east, from Iquitos in Peru, across Brazil to the Atlantic. It gathers its waters from 5 degrees north latitude to 20 degrees south latitude.

9. Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is down to lowest ...

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   Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. In the past 12 months, the Amazon ...