Jer Bolsonaro welcomes passengers to his “path of development” by smiling down from the promotional billboards at the entrance to the Amazon checkpoint. But 20 months into Bolsonaro’s presidency – and a year after the catastrophic outbreak of the Amazon fire – sparked global outrage – and the fire turned …
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Fires currently burning in the Amazon rainforest could be even more destructive than last year, but the Brazilian government denies that they even exist. On Tuesday, President Jair Bolsonaro called the fires a “lie” – because photos and videos from the region burned the forest. Fires in the Amazon for …
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A record number of people were killed last year for defending their land and environment, according to research highlighting the routine murder of activists opposing the extractive industries that are fueling the climate crisis and destroying nature. More than four defenders were killed each week in 2019, according to an …
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According to a new analysis, the cost of preventing more pandemics in the next decade by protecting wildlife and forests would amount to only 2% of the estimated financial damage caused by Covid-19. The researchers said two new viruses a year had spilled from their wildlife hosts to humans over …
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Dramatic new images have shown fires in vast areas of the Brazilian Amazon nearly a year after fires across the region sparked an international crisis for President Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right government. The video footage and photos were filmed during a Greenpeace flight over a wide area of forest in the …
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