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Lula accuses Bolsonaro of genocide against Yanomami in Amazon

Brazilian president says predecessor emboldened wildcat miners which led to wrecked forests and disease and death among Indigenous people

The Guardian - UK

Brazil's new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

Environmentalists, Indigenous people and voters sympathetic to their causes were important to Luiz Inácio da Silva's election to a third term as Brazil's president

The Independent UK

Brazil declares public health emergency for Yanomami people

Brazil’s government has declared a public health emergency for the Yanomami people in the Amazon who are suffering from malnutrition and diseases such as malaria as a consequence of illegal mining

The Independent UK

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The ‘carbon pirates’ preying on Amazon’s Indigenous communities

Selling credits should fund forest protection, but unscrupulous firms are making deals where local land stewards lose out, say Indigenous leaders

The Guardian - UK

A resurgence of alliances is an echo of past wars

Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances with other groups to try to protect themselves.

Bangkok Post

Lula to visit Amazon amid vow to tackle Yanomami Indigenous crisis

Move comes after country’s minister for Indigenous people says issue is an ‘absolute priority’

The Guardian - UK

Lula's environmental challenge

For environmental protections in Brazil, a long rebuilding process lies ahead

Salon

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Fashion sneakers propel sustainable rubber in Brazil Amazon

Veja, an expensive global sneaker brand, is making shoes from traditionally-harvested Brazilian Amazon latex in collaboration with local rubber tappers

The Independent UK

Exclusive-Brazil launches first anti-deforestation raids under Lula bid to protect Amazon

Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes on Thursday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation raids under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to end surging destruction inherited from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.

Reuters

‘Nowhere else to go’: forest communities of Alto Mayo, Peru, at centre of offsetting row

The Guardian visits the Peruvian Amazon as part of a continuing investigation into forest-based carbon offsetting

The Guardian - UK

Couple with three young kids to swap UK comfort for jungle life in Amazonian adventure

For a year and three months the Dickens family of five will be based in the Amazon jungle, sleeping between three hammocks and living amongst hazards like snakes and the world’s largest venomous centipede

Daily Mirror

Davos 2023: Brazil lacking world aid to fight climate change-Silva

Brazil's Environment Minister, Marina Silva, said on Tuesday that international investments have not materialized as contributions to help her country reduce deforestation in the Amazon and contribute to fighting global climate change.

Reuters

Walrus detectives and the Year of the Tiger: WWF’s key moments of 2022

This reflection on key moments reveals 2022 as a year of environmental highs and lows, many of which will continue to resonate in the year ahead

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: Fate of Amazon rests in the hands of Brazil’s Lula

Last week, the world’s fourth-largest democracy swore in a new (and old) president after kicking its own second-rate Trumpian demagogue to the curb. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known simply as Lula, was sworn in on Jan. 1, his second time at the helm of the diverse…

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Reuters

Norway says fund to reduce Amazon deforestation in Brazil back in business

Norway, the major donor to the Amazon Fund, said the initiative for backing forest protection had been re-activated now that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was back in office and vowing to halt deforestation.

Radio France Internationale

Lula's presidency builds up global hopes of saving Amazon rainforest

Hopes of protecting the Amazon rainforest from further destruction, at a time when the dual climate and biodiversity crises are commanding global attention, have got a sorely needed boost following the inauguration of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

WEKU

Is there mercury in the fish we eat? Amazonians tap WhatsApp to find out

A community of Indigenous peoples worried that mercury used by gold miners was contaminating the fish they eat. So they created a DIY team to find out more.

The Independent UK

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday Sonia Guajajara as the nation’s first Indigenous person to head up a ministry

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The Independent UK

Brazil’s Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva

The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Amazon activist Marina Silva as environment minister

The Guardian - UK

‘Amazonia, you beauty!’ How the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira renewed the fight for Brazil’s forests

Six months on, is something positive coming from the killings that shocked the world?

The Guardian - UK

Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified

The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous

Reuters

Colombia lost 86,985 hectares of forest through Sept. 30 this year -report

Colombia has lost 86,985 hectares (214,944 acres) of Amazon jungle in the first nine months of the year while fires burned through swathes of felled areas, a local advocacy group said on Monday.

The Guardian - US

Sônia Guajajara hails Brazil’s Indigenous ministry after Bolsonaro ‘turmoil’

The activist for native peoples says she will work to overturn the ‘catastrophic legacy’ from Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency

Reuters

Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet.

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