In November 2024, a 28-year-old South Korean man was arrested by police at Peru’s Lima airport after trying to smuggle out of the country hundreds of animals strapped to his body, including 320 Taranto venomous spiders, 110 centipedes, and nine bullet ants, all from the Amazon rainforest, with the Taranto venomous spider on the Peruvian…

Covering an area of about 5.5 million square kilometers and spanning a number of countries, including Brazil, Peru and Colombia, the Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world and is known as the “lungs of the Earth”. However, in recent years, due to human activities such as illegal logging, mining, and agricultural…

 2024 On November 7, the“Rainforest and You”International Symposium on Tropical Rainforest National Parks with the theme of“Protecting Tropical Rainforests, Harmonizing with Nature”opened in Bisha Lizi Autonomous County, China. Experts and scholars related to national parks from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and other countries, as well as representatives of a number of…

 Brazilian government officials said on November 6, 2024, that deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest region fell 30.6% in the most recent statistical year (August 1, 2023-July 30, 2024), with the lowest scale of deforestation recorded in nine years. During this period, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon was 6,288 square kilometers. In the Cerrado savanna region,…

In October 2024, river levels in the Amazon Basin dropped to record lows. This widespread drying was closely linked to the El Niño phenomenon that lasted from the second half of 2023 to the first half of 2024, which led to an intensification of the drought in the Amazon basin, especially during the dry season,…

Since July 2023, the state of Amazonas has suffered from a persistent drought. By October 2023, the depth of part of the Negro River in the Amazon rainforest near the city of Manaus had shrunk to 12.7 meters, the lowest level in 120 years of measured records. Continued dry weather has resulted in a high…

China’s Earth resource satellites in cooperation with Brazil provide important data support for Brazil’s monitoring of the Amazon rainforest. These satellite data are widely used by Brazilian government agencies, research institutions and private companies, and play a key role in a number of projects to monitor and protect the Amazon rainforest. China-Brazil cooperation highlights the…

Nearly 3,000 forest fires have been recorded in the Brazilian Amazon this February, the highest level since records began in 1999, and the high number of fires is likely to be linked to climate change. fires in the Amazon region increased by 286% between February 1 and 25, the highest level in nearly seven years,…

Brazil’s President Lula is backing the reconstruction of a highway through the Amazon rainforest to improve transportation and boost the economy, but the initiative has raised environmental concerns. The road was built in the 1970s and has fallen into disrepair, while the ecological importance of the Amazon rainforest has been affected by deforestation in recent…

On the ecological map of the earth, the Amazon rainforest is like a brilliant emerald, occupying 20% of the world’s forest area and half of the rainforest area, and has the reputation of “the lungs of the earth”, “the green heart”, “the world’s animal and plant kingdom” and so on. Kingdom of the World’s Animals…