What are the potential impacts of the increasing frequency and intensity of El Niño and La Niña events on the Amazon rainforest, and how can conservation strategies be adapted to these changes?

Sep 8, 2020 ... Deforestation. Nearly 6,700 km2 of forest has been destroyed so far in 2020. This year, as in previous years, most deforestation has taken ... Nov 8, 2018 ... Silman has researched biodiversity and ecology in the Western Amazon and Andes for more than 25 years. Artisanal-scale gold mining has been ... Sep 23, 2019 ... ... percent, fired the director of ... Researchers estimate that up to 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed through deforestation. Sep 20, 2022 ... In a newly released report, the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) estimates that 13.2% of the original Amazon forest biome has been ... Apr 23, 2020 ... About 17 percent of the Amazonian rainforest has been destroyed over ... Amazon region. Illegal loggers in the country make the problem ... Oct 31, 2023 ... ... rainforests [source: Butler]. It's believed that about 20 percent of the Amazon has been lost since the mid-1970s. Although conservation ... Jan 12, 2024 ... Preliminary data shows more than 5000 sq km were cleared, still over six times the size of New York City. Major countries: About 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest lies within the ... The situation is changing however: deforestation has been trending sharply upward ... The world's first complete historical and current overview reveals that two thirds of the tropical rainforest on Earth are gone or degraded. Jul 14, 2021 ... ... destruction of the Amazon rainforest - 35% of which has already been deforested or degraded, according to the draft of a landmark scientific ...