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Pará state is hotspot for forest loss, fuelling CO2 emissions New economic plan aims for sustainable use of natural resources Businesses seek help to build processing facilities in Amazon BELEM, ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazil: Pará declares emergency situation due to forest fires
On Tuesday (Aug. 27), Pará Governor Helder Barbalho declared a state of emergency in response to the ongoing fires. The decree bans the use of fire for clearing and managing land across the state. The ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The state of Pará has created two new conservation areas along the Amazonian coastline, placing almost all of its mangroves under federal ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazilian court orders restoration of Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s Amazon ghost town
A court in the northern Brazilian state of Pará has ruled that both federal and local officials must act to restore and preserve Fordlandia, a city established nearly a century ago by U.S.
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazil cattle traceability program to limit deforestation in Pará state
A new traceability program will keep tabs on the millions of cattle present throughout the state of Pará, in northern Brazil, where the Amazon Rainforest has been hit especially hard by deforestation ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: JBS and the EU’s Exposure to Human Rights Violations and Illegal Deforestation in Pará, Brazil
Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples
Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazil's JBS ramps up cattle tracking in Amazonian state of Para
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's JBS, the world's largest meat company, has delivered 123,765 ear tags to individually track cattle in Para state, according to a statement on Monday, marking a possible ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: Brazil slaughterhouses reduce ties to Amazon deforestation, but cattle laundering remains issue
Slaughterhouses that agreed to a settlement with Brazilian prosecutors were far more likely to obey environmental laws banning the purchase of cattle from illegally deforested land, according to an ...
News Brazil » Paraíba » Life: New Fortress Energy Places Barcarena LNG Terminal in Pará, Brazil into Operation
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New Fortress Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: NFE) (“NFE” or the “Company”) today announced that its 6 MTPA (300 TBtu) Barcarena LNG terminal located in Pará, Brazil is now operational ...