Amazon
The Guardian – Biodiversity declining even faster in ‘protected’ areas, scientists warn Cop16
Just designating key areas will not meet 30x30 target on nature loss, study says, pointing to oil drilling in parks
I’ve seen the dark, fat grease stuck to the leaves’: oil and gas encroach on Peru’s uncontacted peoples
The Guardian – “Oil and gas projects are coming closer and closer. They are expanding into new lands,” says Cusurichi, a member of the Shipibo-Conibo people, a Goldman prize winner and one of Peru’s foremost Indigenous leaders. “Our territory is our life, but the government is auctioning off plots. It is a great invasion with a grave impact.”
Oil and gas expansion invades 20% of reserves for isolated peoples
Inforegión — A report reveals that around 1.6 million hectares of indigenous reserves for un-contacted peoples are at risk due to these concessions in the Peruvian Amazon.
Oil and gas concessions threaten Peruvian indigenous territories, says NGO
La Vanguardia — New maps show that fossil fuel concessions in the Peruvian Amazon threaten the territories of Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (Piaci), endangering both the environment and the way of life of these communities, according to various organizations reported on Thursday.
COP28 Looks to Nature for Help Against Climate Change
Newsweek — For all the focus on technology to combat climate change, we have no greater ally than Mother Nature. In the closing days of the United Nations COP28 climate talks, conservation scientists stressed the importance of forests, grasslands, oceans and other ecosystems to absorb enormous amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Q&A: What the ‘underwhelming’ Three Basins Summit means for tropical forests
Carbon Brief — In the days leading up to the summit, the environmental research and advocacy group Earth Insight released a report highlighting the dangers that fossil-fuel extraction poses to tropical forests.