Brazil community activism news
Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Brazil.
2025
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From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again, theguardian.com (Jan 07, 2025)
2024
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- ‘I think, boy, I’m a part of all this’: how local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart, theguardian.com (Oct 10, 2024)
- Sustaining birds, bees & communities, Rio’s grassroots agroforestry, news.mongabay.com (Aug 13, 2024)
- Women finding empowerment working with nature’s bounty in Brazil’s Pantanal, news.mongabay.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- Amazon deforestation cut by 83% in places protected by Indigenous communities – new research, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
- Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
- Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves’ power to mitigate climate disasters, apnews.com (May 24, 2024)
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- Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- The best solutions to make life possible in the Caatinga semiarid region are those born from popular wisdom. “Those that sprout like a seed you put in the ground.” Tião Alves, news.mongabay.com (Mar 25, 2024)
- Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, aljazeera.com/ (Mar 18, 2024)
- Afro-Brazilian quilombo community wins historic land claim, setting new precedent, news.mongabay.com (Feb 29, 2024)
- Community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon across Brazil’s soy belt, news.mongabay.com (Feb 15, 2024)
2023
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- Opportunities from a community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide, theguardian.com (Nov 22, 2023)
- Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes, theguardian.com (Nov 20, 2023)
- São Paulo nurseries bring the city’s rare and forgotten trees back to life, news.mongabay.com (Oct 17, 2023)
- Brazil’s Indigenous communities turn to native beekeeping to recover nature, news.mongabay.com (Oct 16, 2023)
- Despite severe drought, Amazon deforestation continues to slow, news.mongabay.com (Oct 13, 2023)
- Indigenous women are showing us how to fight for environmental and human rights, V (formerly Eve Ensler), theguardian.com (Sep 25, 2023)
- ‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2023)
- An indigenous solution to deforestation in the Amazon, courier.unesco.org (Jul 05, 2023)
2022
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- Lula’s victory in Brazil comes just in time to save the Amazon – can he do it?, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
- Rio's residents garden their way out of hunger, BBC News (Jul 02, 2022)
- Amazon deforestation: Record high destruction of trees in January, BBC News (Feb 12, 2022)
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