BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the...

Huge news broke recently when a country with more intact forests than any other on Earth decided that 90% of all forest cover would be preserved by law. Made in New York in advance of a UN summit that will see the party members to the Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet for the […] The post Nation That’s 90% Rainforest Announces Protections for 90% of its Rainforests–Over 25 Million Acres appeared first on Good News Network.

An unidentified COP delegate said economic growth and sustainable development can be mutually reinforcing and highlighted a new initiative launched at the conference to protect the rainforest by partnering with local communities; specific initiative details were not specified in the transcript.

Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala have announced the creation of a “biocultural” reserve to protect a trinational area corresponding with the borders of the classical Mayan empire. The second-largest intact tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Maya Region stretches tens of millions of acres through southern Mexico and her two Central American neighbors. Its treasures are […] The post Latin American States Protect Second-Largest American Rainforest as the ‘Great Mayan Reserve’ appeared first on Good News Network.