Hello all, Mongabay's founder/CEO/lead expert on rainforest issues has created an in depth review of all that happened rainforest wise in 2017, good bad and otherwise per science, activism, and policy:
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/rainforests-the-year-in-review-2017/ ...despite being an oft quoted expert on these issues, the topic is too huge for one man and he asks that folks add developments he missed via the comment function at the bottom of the article. Also of note, *this is huge news, Brazil has announced an end to its era of mega dam building* in the Amazon: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/brazil-announces-end- to-amazon-mega-dam-building-policy/ Thanks for reading this far, and happy 2018 all, Erik -- See my latest writing and photojournalism projects here <http://www.erikhoffner.com/> *tw: @erikhoffner <https://twitter.com/ErikHoffner>*
