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Brazil grants permit to pave highway through heart of Amazon forest

Brazil's environmental authority on Thursday granted an initial permit that will allow a major highway to be paved through the center of the Amazon rainforest, the minister of infrastructure said, in a move that threatens to increase deforestation.

Reuters

If Brazil legalizes more Amazon mining, it would drive deforestation, study says

Legalizing mining on indigenous land and other protected areas in Brazil's Amazon rainforest would lead to thousands of square kilometers in new deforestation, according to a study published on Thursday.

Reuters

Family of journalist murdered in the Amazon launch fundraiser in his memory

Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were killed on June 5 on their boat on the Itaquai river.

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Brazil prosecutors charge three with murder of British journalist, indigenous expert

Public prosecutors have charged three individuals with the June murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, according to a statement.

France 24

Brazilian prosecutors charge three men for murder of British journalist

Federal prosecutors in Brazil on Friday charged three men for the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, a crime that drew widespread attention to increasing lawlessness in the Amazon rainforest under the government of President Jair Bolsonaro.

Reuters

Three charged over murder of British journalist Dom Phillips in Amazon

Mr Phillips and Bruno Pereira disappeared on 5 June

The Independent UK

Brazil prosecutors charge suspects in murder of Amazon pair

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Amazon's blood gold mines are fuelling UK heatwave - what you can do about it

Daily Mirror Environment Editor Nada Farhoud travelled to Brazil to see the damage created by illegal mines in the Amazon rainforest. Aerial images taken by the Mirror show the extent of deforestation

Daily Mirror

Report: Brazil authorities turn blind eye to deforestation

Illegal loggers have destroyed some 18,500 square kilometers (7,100 square miles) of public forests over the past six years in the Brazilian Amazon

The Independent UK

Brazil photographer Salgado blames government actions for Amazon crimes

Brazilian government actions such as removing protections for indigenous territories and not doing enough to stem violent crime in the Amazon created the conditions that led to the recent murders of a journalist and indigenous expert, photographer Sebastiao Salgado said.

Reuters

Brazil’s weak response to Phillips–Pereira murders threatens Indigenous people, lawyer says

Rescue mission coordinator condemns failure to arrest masterminds behind murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

The Guardian - US

Lanarkshire theme park to celebrate World Snake Day

Visitors can get up close and personal with some of Amazonia’s friendly snakes

Daily Record

The Risky Business of Amazonian Tree Climbers

A botanist looks up at a man dangling 20 meters (yards) above ground in a tree that belongs to an endangered species in Brazil's Amazon. "Cut another branch, Zelao," she cries out. Brandishing telescopic pruning clippers, 42-year-old Jose Raimundo Ferreira, known as Zelao, expertly manipulates the tool and a branch…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits tragic record in 2022

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon broke all records for a six month period during the first half of 2022, a sign of increasing destruction during the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro

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Amazon deforestation hits all-time record as area size of New York City cleared

Approximately 1,540 miles were cleared in the region in the first six months of the year

Reuters

Police arrest additional suspect in Amazon murder of British journalist

Brazilian police said on Friday that they had arrested a man known as "Colombia" as authorities investigate his possible involvement in the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest.

Reuters

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon hits record for first half of 2022

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of the year, as an area five times the size of New York City was destroyed, preliminary government data showed on Friday.

The Guardian - US

Venezuela Indigenous leader’s killing terrifies defenders of Amazon lands

Virgilio Trujillo Arana, who led community defense from criminal groups and illegal mining, was gunned down in broad daylight

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The Guardian - UK

Bruno Pereira obituary

Expert on the Indigenous peoples of Brazil committed to defending the traditional ways of life in the Amazon

The Guardian - US

Peru hails progress in Amazon war on drugs – so why is business booming?

In Vizcatán, the last redoubt of militarily active Maoist rebels Shining Path, the army is cracking down on cocaine traffickers

Reuters

Venezuelan police investigate indigenous leader's murder

Venezuelan criminal investigators have launched inquiries into the murder of an indigenous leader, who was killed on June 30 in the country's southern Amazonas state, the police said on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

Bolsonaro’s ‘surrender of Amazon to crooks played role in murders of Phillips and Pereira’

Brazilian president’s dismantling of environmental safeguards partly to blame, says politician leading inquiry

The Independent UK

Pope appoints first cardinal from Amazon rainforest

When the Archbishop of the Brazilian city of Manaus Leonardo Steiner kneels before Pope Francis on August 27, the Brazilian clergyman will make history as the first Cardinal to come from the Amazon

The Guardian - US

Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology

The Guardian - US

Killing, outrage … impunity: can the Amazon break its cycle of violence?

Before the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, Chico Mendes’ murder in 1988 and Dorothy Stang’s assassination in 2005 shook Brazil

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