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Colombia targets reforestation growth

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By Anders Lorenzen When talking about the Amazon rainforest, most of us think of Brazil. By 2026 it wants to reforest an area of 750,000 hectares. By 2026 it wants to reforest an area of 750,000 hectares. This without realizing that the bordering country, Colombia , has a fair share of the world’s largest tropical forest.

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In a significant move, Ecuador is to ban oil drilling in part of the Amazon rainforest

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reduction in projected economic growth between this year and 2026. Optimistic environmentalists hope this is the first step in beginning to heal the Amazon rainforest which scientists have said it nearing irreversible tipping points. Last week the central bank predicted it could lead to a 1.9%

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The Stream, February 1, 2023: US Government Restores Protections for Alaska’s Tongass Forest

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Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. Azerbaijan’s government said that Armenia’s mining and deforestation has irreversibly damaged the region’s natural waterways.