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Fires are burning once more across the equatorial forests of South America, Africa, and Asia, bringing a familiar wave of outrage on social media and concern from investors.
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated communities around the world. But it has also brought some short-lived environmental benefits. But what about forests? Have they flourished? Unfortunately not. It looks like deforestation is accelerating in 2020.
In the heart of Central America’s most populated country, Guatemala, lies one of the most important spaces in the world for biodiversity: the Maya Biosphere Reserve.
They are essential to our survival as a species. But every year, millions of acres of rainforest are destroyed to make way for industrial agriculture.
The palm oil industry has received international negative attention in recent years for clearing biodiversity-rich tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia in its production process.
Environmentalists are increasingly concerned that fires in the Amazon are growing at an alarming rate – risking the ‘collapse’ of the world’s largest rainforest.