Indigenous female leaders
There is a tendency to see indigenous culture as something static. As if changes necessarily represented the abandonment of indigenous culture. But, if we stop to think about it, there are no cultures like that. Every culture changes.
Pantanal means life
The Pantanal is incredibly rich in food, cultures and landscapes. Its vocation is ecotourism. There's a death impulse lurking around us. We have to respond with a desire for life that is stronger.
Indigenous Top Model
All of us Brazilians have before us this journey towards our denied identity. So glad we got that chance! We will come out much better.
Sustainable infrastructure
We need to stop seeing the Amazon as a cheap land, stolen from the State, to be exploited for conventional agriculture, and look at the infinitely greater wealth that is on this land.
Accountability
Funds for Brazil's environment inspection bodies more than doubled in 2021. Even so, deforestation in the Amazon increased by 20% compared to the previous year. In a lecture on Thursday in Manaus at the 1st Environmental Congress of Members of the Audit Courts, I argued that this experience deserves a study.
The queen and the scientist
In the face of so much bad news, so much ignorance and indifference, hearing Queen Elizabeth's positioning and Carlos Nobre's science lectures is a breath of fresh air.
Amazon Day
Here at Earth News Terra we don't fight the news. There is no way to work for a different reality without first looking at it for what it is. At the same time, what motivated the creation of this platform was the desire to get out of impotence, despair, the dangerous feeling that the Amazon is lost, there is nothing to be done. We go out in search of solutions, and they exist.
The ocean
The ocean is both the supermarket and the sewer of the world. It receives all kinds of pollutants, from plastic to heavy metals, along with residential and industrial waste. This, combined with global warming, compromises the balance of the seas and, with it, of the planet.
Brazil’s map
Nobody can justify all the ignorance and carelessness with the Amazon and other Brazilian territories with a lack of access to information. Brazil's 8.5 million km² are scanned by MapBiomas, a monumental collection of maps, statistics and analytical tools.
Ancestral agriculture
Brazil nuts production breaks records, but traditional peoples in the Amazon have a history not only of gathering but also of agriculture. "Indigenous peoples have developed millenary techniques for the production of fertile, ‘fertilized’ black earth, with which they ‘managed’ large areas of forest with edible plants”, claims the new book "Amazon in the 21st Century".
Biodiversity’s value
For people with less familiarity with the subject, the importance of biodiversity is not very clear, other than simply a kind of compassion for an animal that disappears, a certain melancholy for the loss without return. But biodiversity has other impacts, for example on the economy and human health.
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