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Brazil's new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

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Joenia Wapichana is Brazil's first Indigenous woman to command the agency charged with protecting the Amazon rainforest and its people. Critics say Funai has allowed the Amazon's resources to be exploited at the expense of the environment. Lula is appointing well-known environmentalists and Indigenous people to key positions at Funai and other agencies.

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News18 India

Brazil's New President Works to Reverse Amazon Deforestation

Environmentalists, indigenous people and voters sympathetic to their causes were important to Lula's narrow victory over former President Jair Bolsonaro

1 year ago·India

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CTV News

Brazil's new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil's incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency's headquarters -- even its coffee room -- as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing.

1 year ago·Canada

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Reuters

Exclusive: First Brazil logging raids under Lula aim to curb Amazon deforestation

The Bolsonaro government had gutted staff and funding for environmental enforcement by Ibama in his four years in office, while the former president criticized the agency for issuing fines to farmers and miners.

1 year ago·United Kingdom

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NDTV

Brazil's Lula Government Launches 1st Anti-Deforestation Raids To Protect Amazon

Brazil this week began the first operations against Amazon deforestation since veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office, the Ibama environmental agency said Friday.

1 year ago·New Delhi, India

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Associated Press News

Brazil's new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

Environmentalists, Indigenous people and voters sympathetic to their causes were important to Luiz Inácio da Silva's election to a third term as Brazil's president. Now Lula is seeking to fulfill

1 year ago·United States

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The Star Kuala Lumpur

Exclusive-First Brazil logging raids under Lula aim to curb Amazon deforestation

URUARA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's first raids against illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were underway on Thursday, after the new leader's pledge to end destruction that surged under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Read full story

1 year ago·Malaysia

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