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The eight countries that share a slice of the Amazon Rainforest are meeting to discuss a regional response to deforestation, climate change and crime, the first meeting of its kind in 45 years.

GUAJARA-MIRIM, BRAZIL (AP) — On the banks of the Komi Memem River, the activity never ceases: women go down the embankment from Laje Velho village carrying basins to wash clothing, while men embark in small canoes on hunting and fishing expeditions. The river, named Laje in non-Indigenous maps, is vital to the Oro Waram, one of the six subgroups of the Wari’ people, who have inhabited the Western Amazon for centuries. The relentless expansion of soybeans and pastures encroaches o...

Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous chief from Brazil's Amazon, will urge the region's head of state meeting here this coming week to step up their efforts to preserve the rainforest that is vital to his people's survival and the global climate. Raoni said threats to the rainforest have decreased since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office in January, but the danger for Indigenous people is now the Brazilian Congress, where the farm lobby is pushing legislation to end furthe...

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BRASILIA: Amazon countries meeting next week for a summit on cooperation to save the rainforest aim to set up a scientific body like the United Nations's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to share research, Brazil's environment minister told Reuters. "The idea is to have a scientific panel f

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Environmentalists will surely welcome the significant drop in Amazon Rainforest's deforestation rate. Read more here to know where can this be attributed.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 66% last month compared to July 2022 and is now at its lowest rate in six years, according to preliminary data released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) on Thursday.

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