{"id":13865,"date":"2023-08-09T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13865"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:27:17","slug":"amazon-cooperation-treaty-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/amazon-cooperation-treaty-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an intergovernmental organization formed by the <strong>eight Amazonian countries<\/strong> by signing <strong>the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Amazon Cooperation <strong>Treaty was drafted and signed on July 3, 1978.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In 1995, the eight nations decided to create the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), to strengthen and implement the objectives of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Member countries:<\/strong> Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li>It was founded to <strong>promote the preservation of the Amazon basin<\/strong> and regulate Amazonian development through international cooperation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the only <strong>socio-environmental block in Latin America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It works in different dimensions within the framework of the implementation of the ACT: political-diplomatic, strategic, and technical, building synergies among governments etc.<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>four official languages<\/strong>: Dutch, English, Portuguese, and Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Directorate of the Permanent Secretariat<\/strong> and the coordination of the projects plan and execute their activities in close collaboration and through consultations with the Member Countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about Amazon Rainforest<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a large <strong>tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River<\/strong> and its tributaries in northern South America.<\/li>\n<li>It is bounded by <strong>the Guiana Highlands to the north,<\/strong> the <strong>Andes Mountains to the west,<\/strong> the Brazilian central plateau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a tropical rainforest?<\/h3>\n<p>A tropical rainforest is a lush and biodiverse biome characterized by dense vegetation, high rainfall, and warm temperatures throughout the year. These ecosystems are found in equatorial regions near the Earth&#8217;s equator, where the climate remains relatively consistent in terms of temperature and daylight hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/amazon-nations-seek-common-voice-on-climate-change-urge-developed-world-to-help-protect-rainforest\/article67174808.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge developed world to help protect rainforest<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental organization formed by the eight Amazonian countries by signing the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}