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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 » People: 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 » People: In the Brazilian Amazon, a Catholic Indigenous community endures amid land invasions and government neglect
Cristina de Souza and Bernardo Alves at the Sateré-Mawé Health and General Monitoring Base in the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Territory of Brazil in July. Credit: Hannah Lima Farbiarz In the creation ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » People: 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 » People: 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 » People: Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil’s government has signed a 30-year contract to privatize a section of the BR-364 highway, a key part of its plan to create an overland ...
News Brazil » Amazonas » People: Brazilian Amazon: challenges to an effective policy to curb deforestation
Curbing deforestation in the Amazon Region as a whole is no longer a task for national policies; it requires integrated policies and articulated actions to value the standing forest. During the past ...