CLIMATE CHANGE
- Nine hours to get drinking water
Drought in the Solimões River is almost at the point of cutting of communities that depend on the river to sell fish, buy water and food and take their children to school. Residents are complaining about the lack of help. (Agência Pública) - Drought turning Manaus Port into wasteland
An area that used to receive 50,000 travelers a month now has a huge fleet of boats at anchor. The industrial center that drives the local economy is frightened there will be a shortage of products. (Amazônia Real) - Warming threatens irreversible tree damage
Climate change is pushing the temperature of the Amazonian canopy close to 40ºC, a critical point that negatively affects energy production and carbon fixation. (Jornal da USP)
FOREST UNDER THREAT
- Businessman’s group controls 43 mines in a protected area
A conservation unit in the state of Pará has seen devastation triple in a decade due to the actions of a businessman who is under investigation for murder, involvement in drug trafficking and militias. (Repórter Brasil) - Itaú released funds to deforester
A company regarded as one of the biggest deforesters in the Amazon region, AgroSB, which is owned by the banker Daniel Dantas, received 25 million reais in financing after a bank executive took action to authorize the transaction, recordings reveal. (O Joio e O Trigo and Repórter Brasil) - Deforestation advances in wake of BR-319
Four municipalities in the south of the state of Amazonas accounted for 60% of the deforestation alerts during the first six months of this year. Illegal gold mining and cattle ranching in the region have affected local communities. (Mongabay)
Still taken during the filming of Amazon, Longest River in the World, by the director Silvino Santos. Photo: Národní Filmový Archive, Prague
LINK TO THE PAST
- Rescued 1918 documentary about the Amazon
Considered the “Holy Grail of Brazilian silent cinema”, a film stolen from its director shortly after it was produced was found earlier this year, almost a century later, in a Czech archive. (The Guardian) - Forest hides 10,000 indigenous monuments
Structures discovered by remote sensors in the Amazon region may be more than 2,000 years old and were only able to be mapped because they became visible as a result of deforestation in recent decades. (Folha) - ‘The challenge of reforesting minds’
Puyr Tembé, the state of Pará’s first secretary for Indigenous Peoples, states in an interview that members of the government don’t understand Indigenous issues and that she is trying to make them aware of the topic. (InfoAmazonia)
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