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This is the layer of news links submitted by the public and journalists who are concerned with mapping the main issues of the Amazon rainforest. See the link bellow to also send us weblinks.Esta é a camada de notícias enviadas pelos leitores e jornalistas que colaboram com o mapeamento dos principais temas da floresta amazônica. Use o link abaixo para enviar matérias.Esta es la capa de noticias enviadas por lectores y periodistas que colaboran con el mapeo de los principales temas del bosque amazónico. Use el link de abajo para enviar noticias.

Extraordinary migration of giant Amazon catfish revealed

By Gustavo Faleiros 7 de February de 201722 de September de 2020

The dorado catfish, which can grow up to 2 metres long, is an important source of food for people along the world’s longest river. It was suspected of making a spectacular journey, but a careful new analysis of the distribution of larvae and juvenile and mature adults has confirmed the mammoth migration.

Yolanda Kakabadse: ‘While the rainforest is politically divided, the biome is one”

By Gustavo Faleiros 27 de September de 201615 de September de 2020

Yolanda Kakabadse – the indefatigable defender of sustainability – is a former Ecuadorian Minister of Environment and the current International President of WWF. Kakabadse also founded CDKN alliance partner Fundacion Futuro Latinamericano, is a member of CDKN’s Network Council and has been involved in the Amazon Security initiative. In this interview with Miren Gutierrez, she […]

Fires threaten Amazon forests and Brazil’s emission targets

By Gustavo Faleiros 15 de August de 201614 de September de 2020

Fires raging across Amazonia could reach unprecedented levels by October if authorities do not clamp down on the practice of starting them in order to clear and maintain pastureland, according to Alberto Setzer, coordinator of fire monitoring at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The number of fire outbreaks nationwide is already 57% higher […]

Brazilian indigenous leader arrested defending indigenous health

By Giovanny Vera 10 de August de 201614 de September de 2020

The leader was arbitrarily arrested by the Federal Police in peaceful demonstration in defense of the health of Lower Tapajós River indigenous.[:]

Projects can remove 7.8 million “Maracana” stadium in the Brazilian Amazon

By Giovanny Vera 29 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

Protected areas may suffer loss of over 6.5 million hectares – an area equivalent to 7.8 million stadiums like the Maracanã – if projects of environmental impact that are in progress in the country are approved.

After five months, body of activist murdered was found

By Giovanny Vera 27 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

Nilce de Souza Magalhaes, militant of Movement of People Affected by Dams in Porto Velho, Brazil, was murdered in January and her body had not been found.

They want to prove that the Madidi is the most biodiverse in the world

By Giovanny Vera 21 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

The Identity Madidi scientific project seeks more data on the ecosystem of the park. In six study sites 900 vertebrate species and 627 butterflies were recorded.

Amazon indigenous Munduruku, the Head Cutters

By Giovanny Vera 15 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

They still retain much of their customs, language, rituals, culture intact. Except for the practice that transformed them into one of the most feared indigenous peoples of the Amazon: the practice of cutting off the head of the vanquished enemies in war.

The first check of $ 6 million to protect the Colombian Amazon

By Annika McGinnis 13 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

The governments of Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom made its first payment to Colombia for having complied with the reduction of deforestation between 2013 and 2014.

Konibú death and the crime of the genocide of Funai’s former president

By Annika McGinnis 8 de June de 201614 de September de 2020

While he was president of Funai, Romero Juca delivered the land of Akuntsu Indians to their tormentors, says sertanista

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