"Livestock farming is by far the leading cause of rainforest destruction, responsible for 80% of deforestation throughout the Amazon. The industry has been identified as the number one culprit of deforestation in virtually every Amazon country”.
https://open.substack.com/pub/veganhorizon/p/we-have-the-choice-rainforests-or
Please SIGN: Indonesia’s vast sugar and ethanol program, backed by military protection, threatens #rainforest and #Indigenous lands – an area the size of Wales! Biodiversity, local communities, and vital ecosystems are at risk. Add your voice: https://rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1302
“Thousands of Indigenous people were rallying… in Brazil's capital city to call for their land rights to be protected.
The protesters were also pushing for commitments to end fossil fuels during the upcoming COP30 Summit”
https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-thousands-of-indigenous-people-demand-rights-protection/a-72211006
#stem #science #ecology #trees #rainforest #cool #Panama
"And fark this tree in particular, repeatedly." "Oh yeah? Welll, fark you back, even harder"
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5357412/lightning-tree-dipteryx-oleifera
The #Amazon #rainforest is threatened by rampant #deforestation 
and #climatechange 
. This makes zoonotic diseases more likely to emerge - a huge health risk in #Brazil 
#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-91G
“Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.”
Europe’s first temperate Atlantic rainforest research station will be build in Cornwall. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/07/bid-to-build-europes-first-research-station-on-atlantic-temperate-rainforest-in-cornwall
"Right now, the Ecuadorian government is trying to quietly auction 8 million acres of pristine rainforest to oil companies."
Commentary about:
“Brazil’s escalating forest fire crisis, highlighting a record 237,000 fires in 2024 that devastated over 30 million hectares of vegetation—most of it in the Amazon—and triggered a national environmental emergency…
Brazil is pursuing a range of responses”
Lion-tailed macaque feeding on the exotic species, the seed of an African Tulip, primarily due to less availability of native trees around them. Many of the native species have been eroded in favour of exotic ones mainly coffee, cardamom, tea and so on… #liontailedmacaque #primates #mammals #rainforest #nature #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #westernghats
