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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.
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
Cuiaba, Sep 1 (EFE).- Brazil's Amazon region in August registered some 30,000 forest fires, the second largest number for the month in the past decade, exceeded only by some 5 percent more fires during the same month last year when images of the flames in the world's largest tropical forest sped around the globe, sparking worldwide indignation.Despite the fact that the number of fires in Amazonia has declined in August, there were still 12.4 percent more than the historical average for the month of 26,082 fires, according to figures released on Tuesday by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). (Camera: ROGÉRIO FLORENTINO). SHOT LIST: A FOREST FIRE NEAR CUIABA, BRAZIL, IN THE COUNTRY'S AMAZON REGION.
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).
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.
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