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Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA has imposed 365 million reais ($64 million) in fines on cattle ranches and meat packers, including the world's largest JBS SA, for raising or buying ...
As rainforests worldwide disappear, burn and degrade, a summit to protect them opens in Brazzaville. ... Agriculture, including cattle ranching and smallholder farming, is the leading driver of ...
Most of that destruction has come in the past half-century, with Brazil — home to two-thirds of the rainforest — the main culprit. Cattle ranching and soybean crops have expanded dramatically ...
Due to mostly cattle ranching, mechanized cultivation and small-scale agriculture, Bolivia lost approximately 200,000 hectares of rainforest per year between 2006 and 2010. [144] Demand for Bolivian agricultural products has risen in part due to the integration of Bolivian agriculture into international commodity markets. [144]
Cattle ranching is responsible for five times more deforestation in South America than other analyzed commodities, and cattle accounts for 36% of tree cover loss worldwide. [ 16 ] Cattle ranching is especially destructive due to the slash-and-burn method ranchers use to clear land, and the feeding habits of cattle being especially thorough and ...
Cattle ranching and sugar cane growing in the Brazilian Amazon has been identified as the primary cause of deforestation, [5] accounting for about 80% of all deforestation in the region. [6] [7] This makes it the world's largest single driver of deforestation, contributing to approximately 14% of the global annual deforestation. [8]
Costa Rica's tropical landscape. Deforestation is a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystems in Costa Rica.The country has a rich biodiversity with some 12,000 species of plants, 1,239 species of butterflies, 838 species of birds, 440 species of reptiles and amphibians, and 232 species of mammals, which have been under threat from the effects of deforestation. [1]
Fires often spark on cattle ranches as workers clear forests into pastures or farmlands. Trees are often chopped down to clear out areas, and fires are set to burn up excess vegetation ...