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Brazil deploys national security force to fight deforestation
BRASILIA: The Brazilian government yesterday authorised its national public security force to support efforts to fight deforestation in the Amazon, amid worries that 2020 could see another surge in destruction of the world’s largest rainforest. Justice Minister Sergio Moro approved
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Coronavirus: Brazil to declare health emergency
BRASILIA: Alarmed by the growing risks of a new coronavirus, Brazil has decided to repatriate Brazilians from Wuhan, China, and will declare a national health emergency, Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said yesterday. A chartered plane would be sent to
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Brazilian tribes back manifesto to save Amazon habitat from Bolsonaro
XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK: Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the “genocide, ethnocide and ecocide” planned by the country’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. A
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Brazilian tribes and forest tappers unite against Bolsonaro
XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK: Brazilian indigenous tribes and rubber tappers joined forces yesterday to oppose steps by Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro that they say are destroying the Amazon forest they depend on. Some 450 members of 47 tribes met for
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Amazon fires: Bolsonaro accuses media of ‘lying’
UNITED NATIONS: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attacked the media yesterday for “lying” about the fires in the Amazon and criticised international concern for the rainforest as fuelled by interest in the region’s biodiversity and mineral wealth. A day after shunning
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Inspired by Greta Thunberg, worldwide protest demands climate action
Millions of young people flooded the streets of cities around the world yesterday to demand political leaders take urgent steps to stop climate change, uniting in a worldwide protest inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist, Greta Thunberg. Alarmed by images of
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Brazilian climate strikers blame Bolsonaro for Amazon fires
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO: Thousands of Brazilians demanded action on climate change yesterday, taking aim in nationwide protests at President Jair Bolsonaro who they say is allowing fires to destroy the Amazon rainforest, worsening the environmental crisis. Global anxiety that not
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Years after nun’s murder, church activists face threats in lawless Amazon
ANAPU: Fourteen years ago, on a dirt road near a remote settlement in northern Brazil, a gunman paid by local cattle ranchers executed a US nun who had spent much of her life fighting to save the Amazon rainforest and
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Amazon fires: Farmers are poor, not villains
HUMAITA: Farmers living along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, near Humaita, a rural town deep in the Amazon, would rather not use fire to clear forest land so they can grow crops and raise cattle, their local representatives say. But without the
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Business associations press the gov’t to end deforestation in Amazon
RASILIA/SAO PAULO: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose for the fourth straight month in August from a year earlier, according to preliminary government data released yesterday, adding to concerns over fires already ravaging the region. The Brazilian Amazon is facing
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