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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon down 30% in February
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon down 30% in February

The Hindu  

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge to end illegal deforestation by 2030. According to preliminary satellite data from space research agency INPE, 226 square km of the world's largest rainforest were cleared last month. That represented …

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A Brazilian state in the Amazon has been hit with more than 2,000 fires in February
10 months, 1 week ago

A Brazilian state in the Amazon has been hit with more than 2,000 fires in February

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian state of Roraima in the Amazon rainforest has been hit with more than 2,000 fires in February, according to data released Thursday by the state space agency. Fires are also burning down forest inside the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Júnior Hekurari, president of the Yanomami local health council, told The Associated Press. Earlier this month, …

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Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival dancers have taken the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro to pay tribute to Brazil’s largest Indigenous group and pressure President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to deliver on promises to eradicate illegal mining. “My hope is that the world, upon hearing our call, will put pressure on the Brazilian government to remove all the …

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Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands

LA Times  

A performer from the Salgueiro samba school parades during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro early Monday. “The chance that’s left for us is an Indigenous Brazil.” A Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter flies over an illegal mining camp in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, last year. Lula swiftly created a dedicated inter-ministerial task force to fight …

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Investment banks to put $10 billion into projects aimed at interconnecting South America
1 year, 1 month ago

Investment banks to put $10 billion into projects aimed at interconnecting South America

The Independent  

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Pilot who survived being stranded in Amazon for 13 days is killed in second plane crash
1 year, 4 months ago

Pilot who survived being stranded in Amazon for 13 days is killed in second plane crash

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A pilot who made …

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Brazilian police probe deadly shooting on Indigenous land
1 year, 8 months ago

Brazilian police probe deadly shooting on Indigenous land

Associated Press  

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s federal police said Sunday they are investigating a shooting that killed one and wounded two Yanomami Indigenous people, saying the main suspects were illegal gold miners working in that area of Roraima state. A police statement said in a statement that the incident took place Saturday and added that the government sent members of the Air …

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Brazil’s first ever minister of indigenous peoples tackles crises on multiple fronts
1 year, 10 months ago

Brazil’s first ever minister of indigenous peoples tackles crises on multiple fronts

The Independent  

She was a month into her new job, and Sonia Guajajara’s plate was already full. More than 15,000 illegal miners who panned for gold in the Yanomami indigenous reserve are now fleeing camps set up in the middle of the jungle to avoid falling into the hands of Brazilian authorities The more than 896,000 Indigenous Brazilians have never had their …

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Brazil pushes illegal miners out of Yanomami territory
1 year, 11 months ago

Brazil pushes illegal miners out of Yanomami territory

Associated Press  

ALTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Armed government officials with Brazil’s justice, Indigenous and environment ministries pressed illegal gold miners out of Yanomami Indigenous territory Wednesday, citing widespread river contamination, famine and disease they have brought to one of the most isolated groups in the world. An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly …

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The Amazon’s Yanomami people are being decimated by disease and mining in Brazil. Here’s why
1 year, 11 months ago

The Amazon’s Yanomami people are being decimated by disease and mining in Brazil. Here’s why

LA Times  

A Yanomami toddler lies on a hammock Thursday at Santo Antonio Children’s Hospital, in Boa Vista in Brazil’s Roraima state. An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly the size of Portugal and stretches across Roraima and Amazonas states in the northwest corner of Brazil’s Amazon. At least 570 Yanomami children died …

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Why Brazil’s Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining
1 year, 11 months ago

Why Brazil’s Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining

Associated Press  

BOA VISTA, Brazil — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency. An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly the size of Portugal and stretches across Roraima and Amazonas states in the …

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Brazil votes: Amazon loggers hope for Bolsonaro victory
2 years, 2 months ago

Brazil votes: Amazon loggers hope for Bolsonaro victory

Al Jazeera  

This is the third in a three-part series on Roraima in the context of Brazil’s general elections. As the owner of a sawmill in Nova Colina, a logging district in Rorainopolis in southern Roraima state, he fears that a more “environmentalist” government could suffocate the local timber trade, which he says is already in decline. “Our support here is totally …

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Brazil votes: Bolsonaro allies stand firm in Amazon bastion
2 years, 3 months ago

Brazil votes: Bolsonaro allies stand firm in Amazon bastion

Al Jazeera  

This is the second in a three-part series on Roraima in the context of Brazil’s general elections. He is our partner, he is our friend, and he will help us in the reconstruction of Brazil and the state of Roraima.” Nationwide polls show Bolsonaro trailing left-wing former President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva by a double-digit margin ahead of Sunday’s …

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Neymar Jr's Private Jet Makes Emergency Landing in Brazil, PSG Forward Safe
2 years, 6 months ago

Neymar Jr's Private Jet Makes Emergency Landing in Brazil, PSG Forward Safe

News 18  

Neymar is one of the most prolific football players in the world. The forward was on his way back from Las Vegas in his Cessna 680 Citation aircraft, which is owned by his company Neymar Sport E Marketing. “Due to a small problem in the windshield wiper of the plane of the NR Sports plane, in which the athlete Neymar …

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Brazil Indigenous expert was ‘bigger target’ in recent years
2 years, 6 months ago

Brazil Indigenous expert was ‘bigger target’ in recent years

Associated Press  

SAO PAULO — Before disappearing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, Bruno Pereira was laying the groundwork for a mammoth undertaking: a 350-kilometer trail marking the southwestern border of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, an area the size of Portugal. While Pereira had long pursued these goals as an expert at the Brazilian Indigenous affairs agency, known as FUNAI, he worked in …

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‘He gave his life for us’: Fellow activists in Brazil mourn Indigenous expert
2 years, 6 months ago

‘He gave his life for us’: Fellow activists in Brazil mourn Indigenous expert

LA Times  

Indigenous leader Kamuu Wapichana stands before a banner with images of British journalist Dom Phillips, left, and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira during a demonstration in Brasilia, Brazil on Tuesday. While Pereira had long pursued these goals as an expert at Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, a government agency known as FUNAI, he worked in recent years as a consultant to the …

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Tarnished Gold: Aircraft, fuel key to illegal Amazon mining
2 years, 11 months ago

Tarnished Gold: Aircraft, fuel key to illegal Amazon mining

Associated Press  

BOA VISTA, Brazil — The scorching Amazon sun beats down as a group of agents inspect the body of a black helicopter. Here in Roraima state, where all gold mining is illegal, they are essential for transporting prospectors and equipment to far-flung Indigenous reserves, including Brazil’s largest, Yanomami. Superintendent Peres, of the federal police, said despite the beefed-up efforts to …

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Looking for the lost world
3 years, 3 months ago

Looking for the lost world

China Daily  

Simon Chapman sits on the floor and sketches, July 15, 2001. Twenty years ago three British explorers climbed a remote plateau in Amazonian Brazil on a quest to discover the geographical inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel, The Lost World.Published in 1912, it is still the definite story of man-meets-dinosaurs. We would go to the Serra Ricardo Franco …

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro complains about gas prices as inflation soars
3 years, 3 months ago

Brazil’s Bolsonaro complains about gas prices as inflation soars

Al Jazeera  

Seven out of 10 Brazilians blame the government of President Jair Bolsonaro for their loss of purchasing power, according to a recent Datafolha poll. Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro is putting pressure on governors and lawmakers to reduce taxes on diesel and cooking gas in a bid to rein in rising energy prices that are hurting his popularity. Another survey by …

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New clashes as wildcat miners attack Indigenous in Brazil
3 years, 7 months ago

New clashes as wildcat miners attack Indigenous in Brazil

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hundreds of wildcat miners attacked …

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New clashes as wildcat miners attack Indigenous in Brazil
3 years, 7 months ago

New clashes as wildcat miners attack Indigenous in Brazil

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Hundreds of wildcat miners attacked police who were trying to halt illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon region and then raided an Indigenous village, setting houses on fire, federal prosecutors in the northern state of Para reported. Clashes around the Palimiu community have intensified since April 24, when Yanomami men took fuel and some equipment from …

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Brazil investigates reports of vaccines being exchanged for illegal gold
3 years, 8 months ago

Brazil investigates reports of vaccines being exchanged for illegal gold

India Today  

Federal prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Roraima are investigating reports that illegally-mined gold is being exchanged for Covid-19 vaccines in the Yanomami indigenous reserve, the prosecutors office told Reuters on Wednesday. The association said a health worker in the Homoxi district gave illegal miners vaccines in exchange for gold. “The Yanomami have long complained that materials and medicines intended …

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Wildfires rage in Brazil's Amazon forests, 83% rise from last year
5 years, 4 months ago

Wildfires rage in Brazil's Amazon forests, 83% rise from last year

The Hindu  

Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year, with 72,843 fires detected so far by Brazil's space research center INPE, as concerns grow over right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy. The surge marks an 83% increase over the same period of 2018, the agency said on August 20, and is the highest since records began …

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