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Road to ruin: informal byways sow seeds of destruction in Colombia's Amazon Reuters 1 hr ago By Oliver Griffin © Reuters/LUISA GONZALEZ A parked car is seen on an illegal road in a deforested area of the Yari plains, in Caqueta By Oliver Griffin SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Caqueta, Colombia (Reuters) - The dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia's tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country's most deforested regions, illegal and informal roads fan ou...

By Oliver Griffin SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Caqueta, Colombia (Reuters) - The dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia's tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country's most deforested regions, illegal and informal roads fan out in an ever-expanding network, bringing visitors, commercial interests and farmers and ranchers who clear and burn the land. The result is the steady decay of Colombia's Amazon. A Reuters map of the region shows a lattice of lines that crisscross...

INSIGHT-Road to ruin: informal byways sow seeds of destruction in Colombia's Amazon Reuters 1 hr ago * Roads menace Colombian Amazon, vital to curbing climate change * Destruction growing by hundreds of kilometers each year * Land with roads fetches higher prices with buyers By Oliver Griffin SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Caqueta, Colombia, April 14 (Reuters) - T he dirt tracks winding through southern Colombia's tangled jungle often mark the beginning of the end for besieged patches of rainforest in this part of the Amazon. Across San Vicente del Caguan, one of the country's most deforested regi...

We can now see through clouds to detect deforestation in near real-time World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch can now track deforestation shortly after it occurs despite being obscured by cloud cover. The functionality will greatly improve efforts to monitor tropical deforestation and degradation. Radar for Detecting Deforestation (RADD) alerts use radar data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites, which cover the tropics every 6 to 12 days. The long wavelength radio waves can also penetrate smoke and haze, providing insight on forest loss that is occurring in ar...

“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann One of the dominant trends in conservation over the past 20 years has been growing recognition of the contributions Indigenous peoples have made toward conservationists’ goals of protecting biodiversity, wild places, and ecosystem functions. This view is a departure from historical conservation approaches, which have tended to marginalize, undervalue, or even criminalize Indigenous peoples. The transition unfolding across conservation is an important development for the sector, but going from t...