BellingenNSW<p>Roads to deforestation</p><p>"A Brazilian judge...issued an injunction to stop the paving of a highway through the center of the Amazon rainforest, amid fears the roadway would boost deforestation and further drive climate change."</p><p>"Paving the road would allow illegal loggers and land grabbers to more easily access remote and relatively untouched areas of the world's largest rainforest, environmental experts said. Deforestation is the largest source of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions that help to drive climate change."<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/brazil-judge-blocks-paving-highway-through-heart-amazon-rainforest-2024-07-25/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/environme</span><span class="invisible">nt/brazil-judge-blocks-paving-highway-through-heart-amazon-rainforest-2024-07-25/</span></a></p><p>The roads driving Amazon deforestation<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/BRAZIL-ENVIRONMENT-" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/graphics/BRAZIL-EN</span><span class="invisible">VIRONMENT-</span></a><br>HIGHWAYS/0100B2DS1JV/index.html</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roadUpgrades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roadUpgrades</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deforestation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BellingenLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellingenLogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWlogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSWlogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheGreatKoalaNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGreatKoalaNationalPark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roadkill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roadkill</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>koalas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/GlenifferRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlenifferRoad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cement</span></a>#ClimateEmergency <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/DePave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DePave</span></a> </p><p>Gleniffer road widened with a lot of cement to entice vehicle to go faster and logging machinery to push further in to the bush of Tuckers Nob SF</p>