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Events in Brazil and UK to celebrate lives of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert were killed a year ago on Monday in remote Amazon region they tried to defend

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‘You’re looking to die’: the Brazil river where illegal fishing threatens lives

Poaching of endangered species flourishes despite widespread outcry – but sustainable fishing could end the violence engulfing the trade

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Talking Tom and Angela join forces for Green Game Jam 2023

Play games with the popular mascots, and play your little part in saving the environment.

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A look at some of the corporations that dominate the Amazon

From mining to cattle ranching and soya farming, some of the world’s largest companies exploit the region, though many also claim to be giving something back

The Guardian - UK

The multinational companies that industrialised the Amazon rainforest

Analysis shows handful of corporations extract tens of billions of dollars of raw materials a year – and their commitments to restoration vary greatly

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A visual guide to deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Fortunes of world’s largest rainforest and its Indigenous inhabitants have risen and fallen with political leadership

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More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand

Investigation involving Guardian shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming in Brazil

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First Thing: US debt ceiling deal passes Senate, averting catastrophic federal default

Days before the 5 June default deadline, Joe Biden has indicated he will sign the bill as soon as it reaches his desk. Plus, the work of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips goes on in the Amazon

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Friday briefing: A year after their murder, the vital work of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips carries on

In today’s newsletter: A new reporting project seeks to continue the efforts of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips to protect the Amazon

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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, vows Brazil’s Lula

President says last year’s killings were result of ‘encouragement of anarchy’ in Amazon under Bolsonaro

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In the Amazon region where pair was killed, neglect and allegations of harsh justice

One year after the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, some people in the remote Javari Valley region of the Brazilian Amazon have seen their lives change, but not for the better

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Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns

Alexandre Saraiva gives alert on organised crime in region ahead of anniversary of killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

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One year after their deaths, their work must go on

On 5 June 2022, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were killed for protecting the Amazon rainforest. A new collaboration aims to continue what they started

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Last images of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira found on recovered phone

Photos and videos on phone found near site of men’s killing show some of their last movements in Brazilian Amazon

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Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were killed in the Amazon: A year later their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the work

The Brazilian Amazon and its Indigenous people remain under siege but a patrol group the killed activist helped form is fighting back

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Brazil's Lula cuts losses after setbacks on environment and Indigenous front

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has suffered a major defeat over important legislation protecting the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous people who live in it, and he has had to cut his losses in a conservative Congress.

Reuters

Journalists to complete book on saving Amazon rainforest by murdered British writer

One year after British reporter Dom Phillips was murdered in Brazil while working on a book about saving the Amazon rain forest, a group of journalists aims to complete the project, his family and former colleagues said on Thursday.

Daily Mirror

New clues suggests four kids missing after Amazon plane crash a month ago could be alive

Searches are ongoing for the children, who have been missing since a Cessna 206 airplane crashed in the dense Colombian Amazon on May 1, but spirits are positive

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Brazilian president says UN will hold climate conference in Brazil in 2025

Brazil’s president announced Friday that the United Nations has chosen his country to host the 2025 UN climate change conference, though the world body has not yet publicly confirmed the decision

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Outcry as Brazil congress moves to gut environment and Indigenous ministries

Plan to drastically dilute bodies’ powers would deal severe blow to Lula’s attempt to reverse Bolsonaro’s era of Amazon devastation

Evening Standard

Boa constrictor found slithering through south London park

A five-foot-long boa constrictor, usually found in the dense Amazon rainforest, was spotted slithering through a south London park by a stunned visitor.

The Independent UK

Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs

The 24 bright green baby parrots chirp and bob their heads the second anyone nears the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March

Reuters

Brazil's Petrobras to appeal decision blocking drilling at Amazon mouth

Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras said on Wednesday it will file this week an appeal against environmental agency Ibama's decision of blocking it from drilling a well at the mouth of the Amazon river.

Inverse

Can This “Unprecedented” Experiment in the Amazon Help Save Our Planet?

Scientists are planning to launch the AmazonFACE experiment, which sprays carbon dioxide in the Amazon rainforest to simulate climate change.

The Independent UK

Brazil builds 'rings of carbon dioxide' to simulate climate change in the Amazon

Deep in the Amazon, Brazil is building a complex of towers arrayed in six rings poised to spray carbon dioxide into the rainforest

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