Tagged: Amazon rainforest

2nd September 2021

A third of global tree species threatened with extinction

Around a third of all the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction, according to a global index published Wednesday, warning that climate change could tip some forests into ecosystem collapse. Land clearance for...

Latin America

27th August 2021

Indigenous protest as Brazil high court hears land case

Thousands of indigenous protesters marched in the Brazilian capital Wednesday, bearing bows and arrows and traditional headdresses, as the Supreme Court prepared to take up a case that could eliminate reservations on their ancestral...