The Amazon Region contains both the largest block of contiguous tropical forests and the largest river basin in the world. The Amazon Forest Biome spans an area of 6.5 million km 2 and includes Amazonian forests and the contiguous forests of the Guiana Shield and...

Halving carbon emissions from tropical deforestation by 2020 could help bring the international community closer to the agreed goal of <2 degree increase in global average temperature change and is consistent with a target set last year by the governments,...