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BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Amazon Summit closed Wednesday with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests that was welcomed as an important step in countering climate change, but without the

Eight countries that share the Amazon river basin signed the Belém Declaration, an agreement on conserving the planet’s largest rainforest.

The use of the region’s resources for the benefit of all without infringing on countries’ sovereignty was a common desire expressed by representatives at the summit.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has gathered leaders and high-level officials from South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia for a two-day summit on charting shared strategies to

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged wealthy nations Wednesday to fulfill their unkept promises to fund developing countries' fight against climate change, at a summit on saving the world's tropical forests.

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) - "The Amazon brings people health," said Brazilian merchant Edison Rosa, holding out a handful of glistening, dark purple ant...

BRASILIA: Brazil's has 1.69 million Indigenous people, almost twice as many as previously acknowledged by the state, according to numbers announced on Monday (Aug 7) by the national statistics agency IBGE from the 2022 census. In 2010, the IBGE had counted 896,917 indigenous people. Government of

The new population numbers will allow for improved budget funding for policies to help indigenous communities. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and fellow South American leaders face pressure to set out bold solutions to save the damaged Amazon as they open a summit Tuesday on the worlds biggest rainforest.