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Nov 12, 2024 | 
brasil.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales |Rhett Butler
O governo federal Já deu início à operação de retirada dos garimpeiros ilegais da Terra Indígena Munduruku, onde vêm dizimando a saúde daquele povo e o ecossistema amazônico com contaminação por mercúrio. Há anos, o Supremo Tribunal Federal e os povos indígenas vêm pedindo a retirada dos garimpeiros da região, com pouco sucesso; enquanto isso, outras fontes dizem que o governo teve que priorizar crises em outras terras indígenas, como o território Yanomami.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales
There’s a planned start date to remove illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous territory, where they have long decimated the Munduruku people’s health and the Amazon ecosystem with mercury contamination, prosecutors share with Mongabay. The date and removal operation remains confidential, with government sources gathering data on the areas most affected in the region.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales
Titled quilombo territories — traditional Brazilian communities originally formed by runaway enslaved people — have significantly lower deforestation rates, making them crucial for conserving Brazil’s natural biomes. However, only 4.33% of all Quilombolas in Brazil have been granted proper land rights.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
brasil.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales |Rhett Butler
O angelim-vermelho (Dinizia excelsa Ducke), árvore que pode atingir quase 90 metros de altura, deve ser protegido por seu valor simbólico e ecológico, segundo especialistas e órgãos ambientais. Encontrada em vários estados brasileiros, a espécie está sendo ameaçada pela invasão do garimpo ilegal e pelo desmatamento que está atingindo até mesmo as áreas protegidas. As autoridades do Pará e do Amapá estão se esforçando para proibir seu corte.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales
The giant red angelim (Dinizia excelsa Ducke), a tree species that can reach 60 meters (196 feet) in height, should be protected for its symbolic and ecological value, experts and state environmental agencies in Brazil have advised. Found in several Brazilian states, the species is being threatened by encroaching illegal mining and deforestation that is reaching even protected areas. Authorities in the states of Para and Amapá are making efforts to ban the cutting of giant angelims.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
brasil.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales |Rhett Butler
Uma nova iniciativa liderada pelo Ministério do Meio Ambiente planeja recompensar financeiramente os conservadores das florestas tropicais do planeta. Em entrevista à Mongabay, um dos idealizadores do sistema, Tasso Azevedo, detalha as engrenagens do mecanismo, chamado de Florestas Tropicais para Sempre. As nações que se adequarem receberão um valor fixo por hectare de floresta preservado ou recuperado, mas o valor será abatido caso permitam desmatamento.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales
A new initiative led by Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment plans to financially reward conservationists of the planet’s tropical forests. In an interview with Mongabay, one of the system’s creators, Tasso Azevedo, details the financial instrument, called Tropical Forests Forever. Countries that join the system will receive a fixed amount for each hectare of forest preserved or recovered, but the amount will be deducted if they allow deforestation.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
brasil.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales |Rhett Butler
Estudo da NASA analisou o futuro de seis variáveis climáticas em todas as regiões do mundo — temperatura do ar, precipitação, umidade relativa, radiação solar de ondas curtas e longas e velocidade do vento — se a temperatura média do planeta atingir 2 °C acima dos níveis pré-industriais, o que pode ocorrer até 2040 se as emissões continuarem subindo nas taxas atuais.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
news.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales
A NASA study analyzed the future action of six climate variables in all the world’s regions — air temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, short- and long wave solar radiation and wind speed — if Earth’s average temperature reaches 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, which could occur by 2040 if emissions keep rising at current rates.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
news.mongabay.com | Jenny Gonzales
Within six years of each other, Maria Bernadete Pacífico, 72, and Flávio Gabriel Pacífico, 36, mother and son, were killed in the Pitanga dos Palmares quilombo. They were community leaders and defended their ancestral territory, home to about 300 families, many of them farmers. The quilombo is within an Environmental Protection Area (APA), but it is grappling with deforestation and real estate speculation, and it is surrounded by industries, a prison and a landfill.
