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“Where does your ayahuasca come from?” is a question many drinkers of the psychoactive Amazonian brew would just as soon not ask of their suppliers. But Thiago Martins e Silva, a devotee of Santo Daime, a religion whose rituals are based on the purifying power of this drink, and trained forester in Brazil’s northern Acre […]
Amazon River tucuxi dolphins at risk of disappearing, say environmentalists Reuters 1/27/2021 By Luis Jaime Acosta © Reuters/Fernando Trujillo A gray dolphin (Sotalia fluviatilis) is pictured at the Purus river in Boca Do Acre By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Freshwater dolphins that live in the Amazon River and its tributaries have been classified as endangered due to serious risks they could disappear from the region, environmentalists warn. Tucuxi dolphins are among the most threatened animals in the world and the change in classification to 'endangered' by th...
Brazil wildfires surge again in 2020 AFP 1/3/2021 AFP © Lula SAMPAIO Burnt areas of the Amazon rainforest, near Boca do Acre, Brazil, in 2019 -- the number of wildfires in Brazil increased 12.7 percent in 2020 The number of wildfires in Brazil increased 12.7 percent last year to a decade-high, according to official figures likely to add to pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro's government over the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. © Carl DE SOUZA There were a total of 222,798 wildfires across Brazil in 2020, the highest number since 2010, according to the Brazilian...