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Piroska Pomogyi, environmental expert, stands amid reed at Lake Balaton near Keszthely, Hungary, February 23, 2021. Picture taken February 23, 2021. (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo) Asharq Al-Awsat
At least 22 countries enacted or proposed changes during the coronavirus pandemic that weaken environmental regulation, endangering protected areas around the globe, according to a research paper published on Thursday.
Brazil, India, and the United States are the hotspots of COVID-era rollbacks, said the paper, part of a wider report published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on how protected areas were affected by the pandemic. During a time when all eyes were obviously on COVID . you had governments reducing budgets or weakening environmental protection, said Mariana Napolitano Ferreira, head of science at WWF Brazil and one of 150 researchers who wrote the report
Brazil's Petrobras will hold a virtual extraordinary general meeting on April 12 at which a change of chief executive and an election of new board directors will be discussed, the state-run oil firm said in a securities filing on Thursday.
There were 2,286 Covid deaths on Wednesday and nearly 70,000 cases in Brazil which, over the last seven days, has ranked as the most deadly and most infectious in the world.
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