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Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
Sao Paulo, Oct 16 (EFE) .- Brazilian artist Mundano gives life to more than 200 kilos of ash collected in the Amazon which were a result of the recent fires in Brazil with a huge mural in Sao Paulo, where he seeks to denounce the environmental "dismantling" that is taking place in his country.(Camera: WALLACE CARVALHO / SEBASTIAO MOREIRA) SHOT LIST: BRAZILIAN ARTIST MUNDANO'S MURAL IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL.SOUND BITES: ARTIST MUNDANO (IN PORTUGUESE):1. (I want) to incite people to reflect on what future they want. because climate change is already a reality, we already see its impact all over the world. 2. I had the idea to reflect on 'café labrador', which is an iconic work by Portinari, because she is a pioneer in showing inequality and the impact of agribuisiness. 3. When the forest is reduced to ashed, we too become ashes. 4. Then I thought that (the gray) would be more dramatic, more cisceral and more shocking, and that is the goal of the mural.5. I think we are witnesses of the greatest socioenvironmental settlement in our history under the Bolsonaro government and we cannot keep quiet.
Sao Paulo, Aug 26 (EFE) .- Fires in the Brazilian Amazon poison the air and cause hundreds of hospitalizations of children and the elderly due to smoke from the flames, a problem that this year may be aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Wednesday.
Sao Paulo, Aug 26 (EFE).- Smoke from wildfires and the Covid-19 pandemic are combining to create a public health crisis among the more than 20 million people living in Brazil's portion of Amazonia, according to a report released Wednesday.
Camata, Feb 22 (EFE).- Hundreds on Saturday participated in the Forest Carnival, one of the most traditional carnivals in Brazil's Amazonian community of Juaba. Several thousand kilometers from the well-known festivals of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Recife or Sao Paulo, an exotic carnival makes its way into the saturated Brazilian calendar, that of Cameta, where hundreds of participants navigate the waters of the Tocantins River, located in the middle of the Amazon region.The colorful costumes and the huge and eye-catching masks flooded Cameta, a small municipality of just over 100,000 inhabitants of the state of Para (north) and one of the oldest in the Brazilian Amazon. (Camera: RAIMUNDO PACCO). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE PARTICIPAT IN THE FOREST CARNIVAL IN THE COMMUNITY OF JUABA, CITY OF CAMETA, STATE OF PARA, BRAZIL.