by SERVIR Team | Oct 6, 2021 | Brazil, Deforestation, Ecosystem Management, English, Gender, Services
Native women extractivists and farmers in the Amazon work with a diverse array of products. They harvest chestnuts, babassu, extract oils, produce cassava flour, fruit pulp, plant cocoa, pepper, produce handicrafts and cultivate many other types of food in their...
by SERVIR Team | Aug 18, 2021 | Brazil, Deforestation, Drought and Fire, English, Events
Did you miss our webinar Fires in the Amazon: What You Need to Know in 2021? You can catch up now by seeing the full agenda, watching the full recording of the webinar, and download the presentations. Read the summary on the Website of Amazon...
by SERVIR Team | Jun 3, 2021 | Capacity Development, Deforestation, Ecosystem Management, English, Events, Portuguese, Spanish
THE CONTEXT The restoration of forests and other key ecosystems is a major nature-based solution towards meeting a wide range of global development goals and national priorities, including Sustainable Development Goals, but the stakes are high and financial resources...
by SERVIR Team | Feb 15, 2021 | Deforestation, Ecosystem Management, English, Guyana, Portuguese, Spanish, Stakeholder engagement
Guyana coastal area. Photo credit: NAREI Mangrove forests make up much of the coast of Guyana and they are under threat from growing population and land-use change. Because much of the coast of Guyana is below sea level, the mangroves serve as a natural barrier...
by SERVIR Team | Aug 27, 2020 | Capacity Development, Deforestation, English, Portuguese, Spanish
Cada año se deforestan 150 mil hectáreas de bosques en Perú. Entre las principales causas está la minería aurífera, la cual afecta principalmente al sureste de la Amazonía peruana. Con el fin de enfrentar tales amenazas, el Programa SERVIR-Amazonia, junto con...
by SERVIR Team | Aug 24, 2020 | APN, Capacity Development, Deforestation, English, Portuguese, Spanish
NASA Earth Science / Applied Science publishes an article on how SERVIR leverages Amazon Web Services resources to help protect the Amazon Rain forest. The article features how SERVIR-Amazonia is training scientists to monitor forests without face-to-face meetings....
