Tag: Amazon rainforest

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 22:03 UTC

  Bolsonaro lashes back at DiCaprio over social media postings

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again aimed his cannons at US actor Leonardo DiCaprio for his denunciations of the devastation of the Amazon.

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 08:37 UTC

  Slain British reporter buried in Rio de Janeiro

  

  British reporter Dom Phillips, who was murdered earlier this month while venturing into Amazonia to gather material for a book, has been laid to rest in Niterói, in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro.

• Friday, June 17th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  UN tells Brazil to be impartial in Amazonia murder probe

  

  Brazil's government has been advised by the United Nations to conduct an “impartial” investigation into the murders of British journalist Don Phillips and local indigenist expert Bruno Araújo Pereira in Amazonia earlier this month.

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Phillips and Araújo found dead in Amazonia – killers said to have confessed

  

  The bodies of British reporter Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araújo Pereira were found lifeless in Amazonia Wednesday while the two suspects arrested in connection with the case have reportedly confessed to committing the murders.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  UK journalist and guide in Amazonia said to have been found dead – Police denies it

  

  Despite versions from family members that two bodies had been found belonging to missing British reporter Dom Phillips and indgenist expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, Brazilian Federal Police in the state of Amazonas deny any such discoveries.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Amazonas police make arrest in British reporter case

  

  Brazilian authorities have arrested a suspect in the case of British journalist Dom Phillips and his local indigenous affairs expert friend Bruno Araújo Pereira who went missing in Amazonia earlier this week. Phillips and Araújo were last seen Sunday after leaving Sao Rafael in a boat on Sunday on their way to indigenous enclaves where they planned to collect materials for a future book.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  BRICS financing, a life-changer for Amazonia residents

  

  Financing from the BRICS bank has been pivotal in boosting pavement, drainage, basic sanitation and sidewalk construction works in Brazil's Amazonia, it was reported.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil: Two reported dead in new clash involving garimpeiros

  

  A new armed confrontation allegedly involving garimpeiros has left at least two people dead and five others injured in Brazil's Yanomami Indigenous Land, it was reported.

• Friday, February 11th 2022 - 23:53 UTC

  Brazilian Amazon shows signs of increasing deforestation despite promises

  

  Despite announcements from the Government of President Jair Bolsonaro that action would be taken to reverse the trend, deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reached new highs in January of 2022, it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro says Amazon crisis “same old nonsense”

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Friday said the Amazon desertification alert was “the same old nonsense” and blamed the opposition for those reports which were aimed at denting the country's image and scaring away investors.