Tag: Amazon environment

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 12:03 UTC

  Amazon indigenous leaders summit to form alliance against Bolsonaro's environmental policy

  

  Dozens of Amazon indigenous leaders have gathered in the heart of the threatened rainforest to form an alliance against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy and his threats to throw their homelands open to mining concerns.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Lula da Silva accuses Bolsonaro of stupidity and tarnishing Brazil's reputation

  

  Ex Brazilian president Lula da Silva has accused the incumbent leader Jair Bolsonaro of “stupidity” and of been guided ideologically by someone that doesn't believe the world is round, all of which has thrown into the drain, the country's reputation.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  Leonarod Di Caprio's Earth Alliance donates US$ 5 million to help Amazon indigenous communities

  

  Leonardo Di Caprio's environmental organization is putting US$5m towards helping the Amazon rainforest after the recent surge in fires there. Earth Alliance will give the money to local groups and indigenous communities as they work to protect the Amazon.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 17:56 UTC

  New fires raging in the Amazon; agriculture sector warns Bolsonaro: “nationalistic bravado will not win the game”

  

  Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, official data showed, as thousands of troops were made available to help fight the worst blazes in years following a global outcry. Multiple fires billowing huge plumes of smoke into the air were seen across a vast area of the northwestern state of Rondonia.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  G7 summit adds 'Amazon wildfires' to an already thorny agenda, which is scrapping a joint declaration

  

  G7 leaders gathering in France this weekend plan to hammer out “concrete measures” in response to the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest, putting them on a collision course with Brazil's rightwing leader.

• Friday, August 16th 2019 - 07:26 UTC

  Norway suspends funding to curb Amazon deforestation in Brazil

  

  Norway has suspended funding that was supporting measures to curb deforestation in Brazil after the country blocked the operations of a fund receiving the aid, the Norwegian ministry of climate and environment said on Thursday.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 08:05 UTC

  Eat less, poop every other day, suggests Bolsonaro, if you want to save the world

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested on Friday that people “poop every other day” as a way to save the environment after he came under fire for a surge in deforestation of the Amazon since he came to power.

• Friday, July 5th 2019 - 10:58 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists, Europe has no authority to discuss environment issues with Brazil

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has rebutted European criticism over his commitment to the environment, saying he'd flown over Europe twice and hadn't seen “even a square kilometre of forest.”

• Friday, June 28th 2019 - 07:38 UTC

  Bolsonaro says Germany has much to learn from Brazil on deforestation; NGOs ask EU to halt Mercosur talks

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday Germany has “a lot to learn” from Brazil when it comes to the environment, hitting back at criticism over deforestation in the Amazon. Bolsonaro made the remarks in Japan on the eve of the G20 summit, where German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday she would seek “straight talk” with the Brazilian leader over destruction of the rainforest.

• Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  NY Museum of Natural History embarrassed over a booking to honor Brazilian president Bolsonaro

  

  New York’s Museum of Natural History said it was “considering its options” after discovering a private function booked to take place there would honour Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.