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Aerial pictures show a fire raging in the Amazon rainforest about 65 kilometres from Rondonia state capital Porto Velho. IMAGES
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.
Brasilia, Sep 1 (EFE).- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday an infrastructure program that would expand internet connections in the north of the country and benefit 9 million people living in the vast Amazon region. The program will be supported by investments amounting to 1 billion reais (about 182 million dollars) and allow the installation of underwater fiber-optic networks that will run along the Amazonian rivers for 10,000 kilometers. (Camera: ALEX MIRKHAN). SHOT LIST: JAIR BOLSONARO DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE ON AMAZON RAINFOREST INTERNET PROGRAM, IN BRASILIA, BRAZIL. SOUND BITES: JAIR BOLSONARO, BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT (IN PORTUGUESE).TRANSLATION: It is necessary to integrate the Amazon with our own resources. If one day we need resources from other countries, we can even accept them, but it will be from countries that have our same ideals of freedom and democracy. (01:02-01:25).
Rio de Janeiro Aug 5 (EFE).- Francisca Eloide Lima Chaves is the leader of the Alter do Chao brigade, which fights fire in the Amazon.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF BRIGADIER FRANCISCA ELOIDE LIMA CHAVES:"I am a rescuer, I was trained with the Red Cross, I'm a nurse specialised in emergency care, I'm a firefighter and I'm a brigadier.""When I arrived the team was just been created and due to my experience in fires, they invited me to take part in the brigade. After that, we have trained 21 brigadiers. Less than 15 days after the training, that fire in the savannah occurred.""The experience of that fire was completely new from the previous ones I had lived. We are in the Amazon and that makes an enormous difference. Fighting a fire in the Amazon is very different and that was a huge one.""We didn't have anything. We would wear jeans and avoid T-shirts that could be flammable, and we got a cotton blanket. Since we didn't have a fire mask, we would use a shirt to cover our faces, work boots... and we would feel important.""The brigade has brought us a lot of pride but also a great concern. Now we only work from our own initiative or under request to protect ourselves from all what is happening. We don't know who is responsible for the fires, we don't know the real danger we could put ourselves into. It will be better like this because what we did before we did it from our hearts and for love, but it did finish as it did."
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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