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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 » Life: Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe
LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Life: 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 » Life: 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 » Life: HRW Letter on a Case of Police Abuses in the Brazilian Amazon
Dear UN Special Rapporteur Mr. Morris Tidball-Binz, I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch to bring to your attention a series of killings and acts of torture allegedly committed by police in an ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » Life: Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat
SAO PAULO (AP) — 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 ...