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by Gerard MARTINEZ Agence France-Presse MIAMI, Florida (AFP) – Umberto Gimenez loves alligators. He gives them nicknames such as “Smile” and “Momma Gator” and laughs when he thinks of their antics. Gimenez, an airboat captain, has found his paradise in Florida’s Everglades National Park, a natural gem in the southeastern US state at risk from climate change. “It’s an amazing place and there’s only one in the world,” he says. The largest wetland in the […]
by Eugenia LOGIURATTO Agence France-Presse PORTO JOFRE, Brazil (AFP) — Lieutenant Silva’s face is grim as he watches his firefighters try — and fail — to control one of the thousands of wildfires ravaging Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s biggest tropical wetlands. “It needs to rain. We’ve got low moisture, intense heat. With that combination, rain is our only hope,” says Silva, even as new flames break out at the spot his team of six firefighters […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — The number of forest fires in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, has nearly tripled in 2020 compared to the same period last year, according to satellite data released Thursday. Brazil’s national space agency, INPE, identified 3,506 fires from January 1 to July 22 in the Pantanal, a 192 percent increase from 2019 and the most for the period since records began in 1998. The trend is all the […]
(Eagle News) — Muling i-re-restore ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ang ecosystem sa Boracay Island. Ayon kay Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu, i-re-recover nila ang nawawalang wetlands sa isla. Apat sa siyam na existing wetlands sa Boracay ang kabilang sa priority recovery list. Nakatayo aniya sa apat na wetlands ang mga residential structure at commercial building na nagdudulot ng polusyon sa tubig ng Boracay. “We have to find a place for them to […]
