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Eight South American countries with parts of the Amazon within their borders have agreed on what they are calling a "new and ambitious shared agenda" to save the Amazon rainforest. The alliance - reached at a summit in Brazil - will aim to stop the the economic “plundering” of the Amazon rainforest and the environmental devastation caused by human exploitation of the region. The eight countries - Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela - say the rainforest is considered vital for not just South America, but for the whole world, as efforts to counteract global warming continue. But the countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation. There was also no agreement to prevent further exploitation of fossil fuels in the region. Newsday heard from Dr Carlos Nobre - a scientist with the University of Sao Paolo, and the co-chair of Science Panel for the Amazon who attended the summit. "The warming climate is turning the system to be a degraded tropical savannah. If we exceed the tipping point... it will be impossible to reach the Paris Agreement targets for 1.5 degrees warming." (Pic: Indigenous Amazon communities demonstrate in support of effort to protect the rain forest; Credit: Reuters)