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In Brazil, An Amazon Reforestation Project Seeks To Redeem Carbon Markets

In the Brazilian Amazon, workers use metal tubes to sow seedlings in rapid succession, as part of an effort to reforest the jungle with millions of trees.

International Business Times

What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?

In Pará state children are being born with neurological disorders. Experts note similarities to the mercury poisoning disaster in Minamata, Japan – but say that is not the whole story

The Guardian - UK

Brazil Authorities Investigate Boat With Decomposed Bodies

Brazilian authorities investigate boat with decomposed bodies found off Para coast, raising concerns about maritime safety.

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Ibama: Brazil's environmental police are back on the job

When President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returned to power in January, he revived Brazil's environmental police force. The Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) is "back at work", says its president, Rodrigo Agostinho. After years of budget cuts under Lula's predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, Ibama has…

France 24

‘Our world hangs by a thread’: Indigenous activist asks US agri giant to stop destroying Amazon rainforest

Beka Saw Munduruku , 21, traveled 4,000 miles to deliver letter and confront family behind Cargill empire over what she says amounts to a litany of broken promises

The Guardian - US

Support grows for sustainable development, a 'bioeconomy,' in the Amazon

The Brazilian Amazon has long been home to small and mid-sized sustainable businesses that use forest nuts, fruits and other products, and it's an incubator for new ones

The Independent UK

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

UK company mining gold in Amazon on disputed land

London-listed Serabi Gold extracting gold without approval of Brazilian land registry and Indigenous communities

The Guardian - UK

Swimming Australia calls for new acquatics centre to be legacy of Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games

The current plan for swimming events at the Games involves a drop-in pool at the planned Brisbane Live entertainment arena to be built at Roma Street, with $2.5 billion in funding from the federal government.

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Brazil to halt beef exports to China after mad cow disease case

Brazil's beef exports to China will be halted starting Thursday after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed in the northern state of Para, the country's agriculture and livestock ministry said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Young boy dies in agony after face ripped off by wild JAGUAR before rare beast is killed

Little Dierlissom Oliveira Paiva mauled body was found just 50 metres away from the slaughtered jaguar suspected of killing him to death in Para state, northern Brazil

Daily Mirror

Cargill's bid to open new port in Brazil opposed by human rights, conservation groups

As one of the most powerful commodity traders in Brazil, Cargill Inc. has worked to expand its business while fending off criticism that it's enabling the destruction of Amazon forests and savanna for soy farms.

Tribune News Service

A doll brings pride, identity for Brazil Indigenous woman

Luakam Anambé wanted her newborn granddaughter to have a doll – something she’d never owned as a child working in slave-like conditions in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

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Russians, Belarusians out of Paralympics amid boycott risk

Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from competing at the Paralympics because of their countries’ roles in the war in Ukraine

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‘Gold in the sea’: Brazil’s booming fish bladder trade

Amazon fishers are cashing in on a booming maw industry fuelled by Chinese demand, but the threat of overfishing looms.

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