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Raoni Metuktire Participates in Special Screening of the Documentary “The Chief’s Call”
During a screening of the film by IPAM and Raoni Institute at SEMEIA 2024, the leader of the Mebêngôkre (Kayapó) called for union for the future of the planet
Amazonian municipalities dominate carbon emissions in Brazil
First municipal greenhouse gas mapping of the country shows that seven of the ten largest emitters in Brazil are in the North region; land use change is the biggest challenge.
Deforestation in illegally occupied areas explodes in two years
The area felled in 2019 and 2020 on land illegally registered as private property in non-reserved public forests in the Amazon grew by 50% compared to previous years.
About 17.5% of Brazil has burned at least once in the last 20 years
Most of the fire reaches native vegetation. The new data is part of MapBiomas Fogo, an initiative that consolidated information on the area burned each year, from 2000 to 2019.
Deforestation in the Amazon grows for the third consecutive year
30% of the deforestation took place in undesignated public forests, that is, public forestlands not allocated by the federal or state governments to a specific tenure.
Rural producers in Brazil are paid for conservation in the Amazon
The voluntary mechanism is focusing on areas at risk of deforestation, and it is based on periodic payments, with an initial USD 4.2 million investment in three years.
New app helps indigenous people stay protected from covid-19
App shows number of confirmed cases of the disease in cities close to the indigenous territories of the legal Amazon and facilitates collection of information about infections.