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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 ...
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
In March 2014, [7] his first book, Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon, was published by HarperCollins. The book detailed his life, experiences, and conservation efforts in the Amazon. [3] In December 2014, he was the host of the Discovery Channel nature documentary special, Eaten Alive.
According to one study, lake and terrestrial fossil records from the pre-Columbian eastern Amazon show an abrupt enrichment of edible forest species. The study indicates that, about 4,500 years ago, pre-Columbians adopted a "polyculture agroforestry subsistence strategy" [ 11 ] that intensified with the development of ADE soils some 2,000 years ...
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The South American tapir can be found near water in the Amazon Rainforest and River Basin in South America, east of the Andes. Its geographic range stretches from Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas in the north to Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay in the south, to Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador in the west. [15]
What Ohio State football fans can expect from the stadium's Just Walk Out store. Just Walk Out technology first debuted in 2018 with the first Amazon Go convenience store in Seattle.
The northern limit begins with the Guaviare and Vichada Rivers and extends south to the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers. The Amazon region is divided up into distinct subregions: Amazon foothills: bordering the East Andes; Caquetá River Plain: the main watershed of this region; Inírida River Plain: location of the famous Cerros de Mavecure