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The risky business of Amazonian tree climbers
Jul 13, 2022 (AFP)
"Cut another branch, Zelao," she cries out. Brandishing telescopic pruning clippers, 42-year-old Jose Raimundo Ferreira, known as Zelao, expertly manipulates th...
Race to find Brazil Amazon species before they disappear
Jul 13, 2022 (AFP)
"The rate of destruction is faster than the rate of discovery," says botanist Francisco Farronay, of the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), as he ...
Fourth arrest in Amazon murders of journalist, guide: police
Jul 08, 2022 (AFP)
The man presented himself to police to deny claims in the press that he may have ordered the murders, police chief Eduardo Fontes of the Amazonas state told rep...
Niger activists call for wood-free Eid barbecues to save trees
Jul 06, 2022 (AFP)
They pleaded with them to replace wood with locally mined coal at barbecues to mark the festival due to start at the weekend, called Tabaski in West Africa. The...
The Gambia bans timber exports after smuggling fears
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
"All existing permits issued for the export/re-export of timber are permanently revoked," the information ministry said in a statement, instructing port authori...
Brazil sets new six-month Amazon deforestation record
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
The world's largest tropical rainforest lost 3,750 square kilometers (1,450 square miles) of jungle since the beginning of the year, the worst numbers for that ...
Funeral held in Brazil for slain British journalist
Jun 26, 2022 (AFP)
Phillips, 57, and Bruno Pereira, 41, were shot dead while returning from an expedition in a remote region of the rainforest that is plagued by drug trafficking,...
Indigenous farewell for expert killed in Amazon
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
Dressed in straw and feather loincloths and headgear, members of the Xukuru Indigenous group chanted funeral hymns and mourned at a solemn ceremony near Recife,...
Bodies of two men murdered in Brazilian Amazon returned to families
Jun 23, 2022 (AFP)
Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41, were shot while returning from an expedition in the Javari Valley, a remote region of the rainforest. Pereira's funeral is schedu...
Fish trade's murky waters cloud double murder in Amazon
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
Still, it's just a fish. How is it possible it could have gotten British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira murdered? Police ...
Brazilian police find boat of murdered British journalist, guide
Jun 20, 2022 (AFP)
The boat was found Sunday night some 20 meters (65 feet) under water and 30 meters from the right bank of the Itaquai River, packed with six sandbags to keep it...
Phillips and Pereira: killed trying to save the Amazon
Jun 19, 2022 (AFP)
The British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert, both at a crossroads in life, had gravitated back to the far-flung region they visited together in 2018,...
Police confirm ID of Brazilian guide in Amazon double killing
Jun 18, 2022 (AFP)
A day after investigators identified remains found buried in a remote part of the Amazon as those of Phillips, officials said a second set of remains belonged t...
Bolsonaro blamed as UN, activists denounce Amazon murders
Jun 17, 2022 (AFP)
Veteran correspondent Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41, went missing on June 5 in a remote part of the rainforest rife with illegal mining, fishing and logging, as...
Human remains found in Amazon search for journalist, expert
Jun 13, 2022 (AFP)
Relatives of veteran correspondent Dom Phillips and respected indigenous specialist Bruno Pereira meanwhile said authorities informed them two bodies had been f...
US, Brazil upbeat on climate after leaders meet; As deforestation soars
Jun 11, 2022 (AFP)
"We don't need the Amazon to expand agribusiness," Bolsonaro told the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, where he met Biden a day earlier. Bolsonaro has enr...
Brazil leader complains to Biden about pressure over Amazon
Jun 10, 2022 (AFP)
"We have a wealth in the heart of Brazil -- our Amazon, which is bigger than Western Europe, with incalculable riches, biodiversity, mineral wealth, drinking wa...
Fears mount for UK journalist, Indigenous expert missing in Amazon
Jun 08, 2022 (AFP)
Veteran freelance journalist Dom Phillips, 57, and respected Indigenous specialist Bruno Pereira, 41, went missing early Sunday while traveling by boat in Brazi...
Appeals at Davos to stop Amazon deforestation
May 26, 2022 (AFP)
"It's all about regulation, legislation and putting the ground for the people from the forest to become entrepreneurs. And they really want that," said Gustavo ...
Deforestation surges in Brazil Atlantic Forest: report
May 26, 2022 (AFP)
The "Mata Atlantica," which stretches down Brazil's eastern coast, lost 21,642 hectares (53,479 acres) of forest cover from November 2020 to October 2021, up tw...
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