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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
Images of a plane in the Brazilian Amazon after fourteen people were killed in a crash while trying to land in stormy weather in the tourist town of Barcelos, leaving no survivors. IMAGES
The odyssey against the clock to vaccinate indigenous people in the Brazilian AmazonAutazes (Brazil), Feb 6 (EFE), (Camera: Raphael Alves).- In extreme conditions, the vaccination against covid-19 of the indigenous communities of the Brazilian Amazon has become an odyssey against the clock, given the sudden increase in infections. Brazilian health authorities are preparing to immunize in the shortest possible time a vulnerable population that has been decimated throughout history by the emergence of new diseases. FOOTAGE IN AUTAZES, BRAZIL.SOUNDBITES FROM YUAKA MURA:"WE ARE WORKING QUITE HARD TO COVER THIS WHOLE AREA IN THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME."TATO MURA:"THIS VACCINE REPRESENTS HOPE. OUR PEOPLE ARE A VERY FRIGHTENED PEOPLE. THEY ARE NOT USED TO THIS KIND OF PANDEMIC, BUT THANK GOD WE MANAGED TO GIVE THEM ALL HOPE".ROSANE NASCIMENTO:"WE ARE GOING TO LIVE LONGER, BECAUSE WE ARE VACCINATED, IT IS A GUARANTEE. IT IS GRATIFYING FOR ME, FOR THE WHOLE INDIGENOUS FAMILY, IT IS A PRIVILEGE, AN ASSURANCE THAT WE ARE NOW ALL IMMUNE (TO COVID-19)".
Quito, Ecuador Dec 8 (EFE) .- The new Atlas of the Amazon presented this Tuesday will be a fundamental support for the planning of sustainable development, in order to face the rampant deforestation, the impact of illegal mining and fires in that area known as the lung of the world.
Madrid, Aug 28 (EFE) - (Camera: Ángel Herrera / Pedro Pablo Pérez) Social and environmental organizations, such as the state campaign No to Trade and Investment Treaties, Ecologistas en Acción and Fridays for Future, have joined together to protest the fires, the passivity of the international community and the actions of Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro. The organizations and groups have organized a protest in front of the Brazilian embassy in Madrid, joining a day of protests around the world.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY IN MADRID AND STATEMENTS BY ALEJANDRO MARTÍNEZ, FROM FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE.Translations: "This action we taking, internationally, is to support our fellow Fridays for Future advocates that are living Brazil.""We are trying to put pressure on the European Union to not sign the Mercosur agreement that put in jeopardy the human rights and also the climate goals of many regions across Brazil."
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