Brazilian police officials accused an illegal fishing trafficker of ordering an assassination in June that left a British journalist and Brazilian activist dead deep in the Amazon.
Tag: Amazon Jungle
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Brazil’s Defender of the Indigenous Brings Their Fight to the Shed
Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland.
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Ecuador Tried to Curb Drilling and Protect the Amazon. The Opposite Happened.
A novel idea to leave the country’s vast oil reserves in the ground fizzled for lack of international support. Now, struggling under painful debt, the government wants to expand drilling in the rainforest.
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The Sunday Read: ‘She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away’
At 17, Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she runs a research station founded by her parents.
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Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’?
Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna — with profound effects on the climate worldwide.