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Brazil’s environmental governance is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry

Politicians reviled environmental minister Marina Silva in the senate this week, but new legislation is fuelling the fire

The Guardian - UK

Dom Phillips was killed researching a book on the Amazon. Three years later, his friends finished it

Fragments of hope mix with grim realities in How to Save the Amazon, published in the UK and Brazil this week.

Euronews

Scientists reveal what would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out

When trees die from drought, they release carbon, accelerating global warming

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Evening Standard

‘We carry on with the sadness’: new projects honor life and legacy of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcast

The Guardian - US

Voices: No more grandstanding: Deforestation pledges will go up in flames if we ignore inequality

THE ECO CHAMBER: With wildfires reaching new and disastrous heights, we need an end to global pledges – and more opportunities for people to make a living by protecting valuable ecosystems, writes Chris Wright

The Independent UK

French-Brazilian Photographer Sebastiao Salgado Dies Aged 81: French Academy Of Fine Arts

French-Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, famed for his immense body of work depicting wildlife, landscapes and people around the world, died Friday aged 81, announced the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member.

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Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81

Brazilian photographer’s work highlighted injustice and introduced rainforest to the world

The Guardian - US

Peru court rules in favor of Kichwa territorial rights in the Amazon

Peru’s top court has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area of the Amazon

The Independent UK

The psychology of climate traps and how to avoid them

Each year, the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest, with 95% of this deforestation occurring in tropical regions. South America is a major hotspot, with Brazil in particular facing severe forest loss — much of it driven by cattle ranching, which accounts for more than 70% of all…

The Conversation

The Guardian view on protecting the Amazon: forest defenders must have support

Editorial: Dom Phillips’ posthumously published book is an urgent reminder of why this unique landscape matters so much

The Guardian - UK

How to Save the Amazon by Dom Phillips review – tracing the late journalist’s footprints

A team of writers complete the vital book that Guardian reporter Dom Phillips was working on at the time of his murder

The Guardian - UK

France to build high-security jail in Amazon to isolate drug traffickers from gangs

The country's Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the €400-million scheme during a visit to French Guiana on Sunday.

Euronews

Amazonian communities in Peru rejoice as plan for oil drilling on ancestral land stalls

Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups

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Long-term drought could cause ‘profound change’ in Amazon rainforest – study

Researchers believe climate change may cause the death of large trees and reduce the area’s ability to act as a carbon sink.

The Independent UK

Brazil slaughterhouses reduce ties to Amazon deforestation, but cattle laundering remains issue

A report of Brazil’s Amazon beef industry published reveals that slaughterhouses complying with a settlement agreement are far more likely to follow laws prohibiting the purchase of cattle from illegally deforested land

Euronews

Ecuador's Waorani demand court action over Amazon oil projects

Leaders of Ecuador’s Waorani Indigenous community gathered at Quito's Constitutional Court on Tuesday, urging recognition of territorial rights threatened by government-backed oil projects.

Euronews

‘Leo will follow Francis’: Catholics in the Amazon hope new pope will protect the rainforest

Amazon Catholics say the new pope is needed at COP30 in Brazil later this year.

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The Independent UK

'Leo will follow Francis.' Amazon Catholics hope the new pope will protect the rain forest

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest protection and rights at the center of Church concern

The Independent UK

Colombia takes regional lead in Indigenous self-government, raising hopes for Amazon protection

Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across parts of the Amazon

The Independent UK

Head of Brazil's gas giant Petrobras criticized for 'drill, baby, drill!' comment about the Amazon

Environmentalists slammed the president of Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras, Magda Chambriard after she echoed the phrase “Drill, baby, drill!”

The Independent UK

The construction of a road in Brazil draws criticism before first-ever climate talks in the Amazon

The construction of a road is drawing attention in the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference in Brazil

The Independent UK

Brazilian state's deforestation amnesty poses 'one of the greatest threats' to the Amazon

Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest inside the Jaci-Parana conservation zone and turned it into pasture

International Business Times

Mennonite Communities Raise Hackles In Peruvian Amazon

When they saw men with arrows and machetes bearing down on them, Daniel Braun and other Mennonites living in the Peruvian Amazon fled across rice paddies, some of their barns ablaze behind them.

The Independent UK

Hope floats in the Amazon as Bacuri, a young manatee, fights for survival

In a protected part of the Amazon, Bacuri, a young manatee that was found stranded and alone, is being raised in captivity

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