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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. 2 pp 105-110. (2) 2) Geraldo B. 110, pages 173-177. (3)

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. Central America, South America, Africa, and Oceania are still deforesting.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v. United States.

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