Why Brazil, a country with 12% of the world’s fresh water, faces a water crisis:

“But it is Brazil's role as an agribusiness powerhouse that threatens the nature that provides it with so much water.”

Climate change too of course. But rainforests and natural savannah preserve the water.

https://www.dw.com/en/why-brazil-faces-a-water-crisis/a-72243220

The #Amazon #rainforest is threatened by rampant #deforestation and #climatechange . This makes zoonotic diseases more likely to emerge - a huge health risk in #Brazil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-91G

#TIL there are rainforests in Scotland???

https://www.nature.scot/landscapes-and-habitats/habitat-types/woodland-habitats/scotlands-rainforest

2020, #MearesIsland. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Massive #ancient #cedar #trees in #Tlaoquiaht #FirstNations #TribalPark.
#Boardwalk #footpath #hiking #trail.

Europe’s first temperate Atlantic rainforest research station will be build in Cornwall. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/07/bid-to-build-europes-first-research-station-on-atlantic-temperate-rainforest-in-cornwall

Lion-tailed macaque feeding on the exotic species, the seed of an African Tulip, primarily due to less availability of native trees around them. Many of the native species have been eroded in favour of exotic ones mainly coffee, cardamom, tea and so on… #liontailedmacaque #primates #mammals #rainforest #nature #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #westernghats

Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
#Petition #nature #biodiversity #Ecosystem #ecosystems #forest #forests #rainforest #tree #trees #deforestation
https://earthjustice.org/action/protect-forests-from-massive-expansion-of-logging

Dung #beetles are unsung heroes of ecosystems. If both drought and fire kill off dung beetles, then the Amazon #rainforest is in serious trouble. Help them to survive by going #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil ️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-4IZ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#goodnews #inspiring #indigenous #justice #government #rainforest #Ecuador #SouthAmerica

Rainforest Oil Exploration Stopped as Court Rules Uncontacted Tribes Have Right to Remain in Isolation

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rainforest-oil-exploration-stopped-as-court-rules-uncontacted-tribes-have-right-to-remain-in-isolation/

Experts fear a #palmoil #biofuel boom may drive massive #deforestation in #Indonesia, threaten the world’s 3rd largest #rainforest and send irreplaceable #animals and plants to extinction #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8Vs

Buying carbon credits to fight climate change? Here’s what to know

#CarbonCredits sold on the voluntary market are under scrutiny for not offsetting #Greenhouse#Gas emissions as claimed.

One investigation concluded that over 90 percent of carbon credits issued for #rainforest protection by the largest carbon credit certification body “had no benefit to the climate.” Two reports published in 2023 found that credits for forest-based projects in North America, South America, Africa and Asia may in fact #increase net #emissions. 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/carbon-credits-climate-change-emissions

Not a good look!

Fonterra, and the NZ Dairy industry has been linked to deforestation inside the wildlife reserve featured in David Attenborough’s orangutan documentary, Secret Lives of Orangutans.

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/nz-dairy-linked-to-deforestation-in-attenborough-orangutan-documentary-wildlife-reserve/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=nickofnz

You gotta be kidding me #rainforest in West #Papua is being cleared to make... #KitKats? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/west-papua-indonesia-palm-oil-deforestation-rainforest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other