Tag: Deforestation
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Brazil’s Lula pushes end to deforestation, stumbles on fossil fuels – POLITICO
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Under pressure from the EU to rein in deforestation or face trade restrictions, Amazon countries must figure out how to bring prosperity to the region without destroying the forest. And that’s proving difficult. At a two-day summit starting Tuesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula…
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In the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists try new approach against deforestation and poverty
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But outside these reserves, in many places, people take orders from self-appointed landowners, Campos-Silva said. Entire communities are denied access to lakes, even to fish to feed their families. People don´t own the land, and they don’t know who does. “We started thinking that it might be interesting to design a conservation model based on…
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Brazil’s Lula Works To Reverse Amazon Deforestation
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil’s incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency’s headquarters — even its coffee room — as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing. The ritual carried extra meaning for Joenia Wapichana, Brazil’s first Indigenous woman to command the…
