Cargill-MacMillan Family Rebukes Visiting Indigenous Leader

In her open letter, Beka Munduruku states: "You must cease the destruction of our forests. You must stop expanding into our territory. You must stop selling commodities from lands stolen from Indigenous peoples. You must stop the murder of the defenders of these lands." To bring this message to the attention of the family, a full-page advertisement to the Cargill-MacMillan family ran yesterday in the print editions of the New York Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune...

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/cargill-macmillan-family-rebukes-visiting-indigenous-leader

Protecting land and animals will mitigate future pandemics, report says

"The science is not in dispute at all about this. Deforestation is a prime driver of pandemics," says Lee Hannah, a climate scientist for Conservation International who specializes in the effects of forest loss.....

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2020/10/protecting-land-animals-will-mitigate-future-pandemics-report-says/

Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds

Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as “carbon sinks” and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown. The Amazon could turn into a source of carbon in the atmosphere, instead of one of the biggest absorbers of the gas, as soon as the next decade, owing to the damage caused by loggers and farming interests and the impacts of the climate crisis, new research has found. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/04/tropical-forests-losing-their-ability-to-absorb-carbon-study-finds

UN sets 2030 biodiversity targets as we face a mass extinction - CNN

Almost a third of the Earth will need to be protected by 2030 and pollution cut by half to save our remaining wildlife, as we enter the planet's sixth era of mass extinction, according to a United Nations agency. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity released a draft plan on Monday, which sets global goals to combat the ongoing biodiversity crisis in the coming decades. ...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/14/world/un-biodiversity-draft-plan-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

Why The Amazon Is Burning And How World Leaders Want To Stop It (On Point)

The Amazon in Brazil is on fire. We look at deforestation, climate change and what’s at stake for the planet.
Interview:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/08/26/amazon-rainforest-fires-brazil-g7-macron

Scientists say halting deforestation 'just as urgent' as reducing emissions - the guardian

Protecting and restoring forests would reduce 18% of emissions by 2030 and help to avoid global temperature rise beyond 1.5C ....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/04/climate-change-deforestation-global-warming-report