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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio to discuss various environmental issues.
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: Leonardo DiCaprio Shares Rare Travel Photos as He Praises 'Incredible Efforts' to Protect the Amazon
Leonardo DiCaprio shared a rare glimpse of his recent trip through South America, praising the people working to protect the Amazon and other threatened ecosystems. "The last years have seen ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: A model Indigenous territory in Brazil's Amazon seeks protection from criminal gangs
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Ashaninka Indigenous people — who recovered their territory in the Brazilian border with Peru from settlers three decades ago, established and sustained their own governance, and ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)
The forests of the Brazilian Amazon are, by any measure, among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They absorb carbon on a planetary scale, regulate rainfall across South America, and shelter ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazil
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: Brazilian cities spearhead Amazon climate action
Brazilian cities are leading climate action in the Amazon through the Brazil Mutirão Programme, focusing on urban initiatives to tackle climate change beyond deforestation.
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat
SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: Mato Grosso Government (Brazil) and O.N.E. Amazon Join Forces to Protect the Amazon Through an Innovative Conservation Finance Model
The agreement includes actions to join technical, administrative, and financial efforts to promote the conservation of the Amazon Rainforest in the Cristalino I and II State Parks in the Amazon ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon, fueling deforestation concerns
SAO PAULO — Brazil’s government announced Wednesday that it will invest $75 million in the BR-319 highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest, a project environmentalists say could accelerate ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: Without stronger government action, Brazil’s low deforestation in the Amazon is unlikely to last
A recent report from Brazil’s national space agency showed that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the lowest it’s been in a decade. The news made headlines and was lauded as an example of the ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: As COP30 Unfolds in the Amazon, Brazil Is Drilling for Oil Near the Great Amazon Reef System
As world leaders conclude the United Nations’ annual climate talks in Belém, Brazil— a summit meant to accelerate global action on phasing out fossil fuels—the Brazilian government is facing mounting ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Government: Brazil protects three million hectares of Amazon forests
Efforts by WWF in Brazil has helped create three million hectares of protected areas in the Amazon. Brasilia, Brazil - The Brazilian State of Amazonas, by far the largest state in the Brazilian Amazon ...