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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.
Lima, Sep 30 (EFE).- To protect some 35 million hectares of Amazon rainforest, the main indigenous organizations of Ecuador and Peru launched Thursday their own alternative development plan that seeks to leave oil and gas underground.The area, called by the natives as Cuencas Sagradas or Sacred Basins, comprises a wide water network originating in the glaciers of the Andes of Ecuador and Peru.The water descends to form innumerable rivers, feeding the Amazon, which hosts the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world and regulates the climate of the entire planet. (Camera: JUAN PALOMINO).SHOT LIST: INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF PERU AND ECUADOR PRESENT PLAN TO PROTECT THE AMAZON RAINFOREST IN LIMA, PERU.
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).
Leonardo DiCaprio and Will Smith have joined forces to save the Amazon rainforest, which is being destroyed by wildfires.
Huge swaths of rainforest continue to smoke and burn in Brazil's northwestern state of Rondonia where fire-fighting efforts are concentrated, which has prompted growing global uproar and a diplomatic spat between France and Brazil IMAGES
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