Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hiroko Tabuchi, Claire Rigby e Jeremy White 24/02/2017 A decade after the “Save the Rainforest” movementcaptured the world’s imagination, Cargill and otherfood giants are pushing deeper into the wilderness. COLONIA BERLIN, Bolivia — A few months ago, a representative from Cargill traveled to this remote colony in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands in the southernmost reaches…

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Science  03 Mar 2017: Vol. 355, Issue 6328, pp. 925-931 The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian forests by overlaying known archaeological sites in Amazonia with the distributions and abundances of 85 woody species domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples. Domesticated…