Tag: amazonas jungle

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  Deforestation of Amazonia takes turn for the worse despite Brazilian President's promises

  

  Brazil's National Institute Institute for Space Research (Inpe) has released over this past weekend updated data regarding the deforestation of Amazonia between August 2020 and July 2021.

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Bolsonaro presents controversial bill opening indigenous lands mostly in the Amazon

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro introduced a controversial Bill that opens up indigenous lands, many of them in the Amazon, to mining, agricultural activities and hydraulic energy production. The conservative president described the measure, which still needs approval in Congress, as a “dream” while indigenous leaders have labelled it a “genocide Bill.”

• 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.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Bolsonaro will join with other Amazon countries to set a common policy to protect the rainforest

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday he would meet with other South American countries to set common policy for defending the Amazon rain forest, while his foreign minister said Brazil should be seen as an environmental hero.