What percentage of timber harvested in the Amazon comes from certified sustainable forestry operations?

Around 17–20% of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed, with almost all of the deforested areas being turned into cattle ranches. One estimate ... Aug 30, 2022 ... But in Brazil, home to about 60 percent of the Amazon, nearly one-fifth has already been destroyed. And virtually no one, law enforcement ... 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 ... Aug 25, 2019 ... According to National Geographic, the Amazon has already lost around 17 percent over the past 50 years. The full devastation of these fires won' ... Sep 23, 2019 ... ... percent, fired the director of ... Researchers estimate that up to 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed through deforestation. Less than one percent of the tropical rainforest species have actually been analyzed for their medicinal value. ... were cut down to make grazing land for cattle ... ... percent of tropical rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by the year 2020. ... Today at least 18.8 percent of rainforest in the Amazon has been razed and is ... Nov 23, 2021 ... In Brazil, this has been the case since at least the 1970s: government figures attributed 38 percent of deforestation from 1966-1975 to large- ... Dec 8, 2020 ... The annual area lost tripled from 2015 to 2018,” found the study, noting that in 2018 alone, 31,269sq km of forest were destroyed across the ... Nov 1, 2022 ... The fact that throughout the past 20 years the Amazon rainforest—also known as the “lungs of the world”—has been devastated by deforestation is ...