North Koreans may have helped create Western cartoons, report says
Washington DC, US Reuters North Korean animators may have helped create popular television cartoons for big Western firms, including Amazon and HBO Max, despite international sanctions on North Korea, a research report has found. Researchers discovered files on a North Korean internet server that included animations, written instructions and comments that appear to relate to […]
Brazil’s Yanomami leader asks the Pope to support President Lula in reversing damage to the Amazon
Vatican City AP Pope Francis met Wednesday with a leader of Brazil’s Yanomami people, who asked for papal backing for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ’s efforts to reverse decades of exploitation of the Amazon and better protect its Indigenous peoples. Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman, said he came to the Vatican at Francis’ invitation to brief him […]
Colombia Amazon deforestation forecast down 25 per cent to 35 per cent last year, ministry says
Bogota, Colombia Reuters Deforestation in Colombia’s Amazon region is forecast to have declined by 25 per cent to 35 per cent in 2023, Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Monday, while warning that evidence shows that destruction has increased so far in 2024. Colombia is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, with thousands of […]
Record wildfires hit Venezuela during climate-driven Amazon drought
Sao Paulo/Maracay, Venezuela Reuters Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released on Monday, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region. Satellites registered more than 30,200 fire points in Venezuela from January to March, the highest level for that period since records started in 1999, according to Brazil’s […]
Ancestral lands: Displaced Ecuador Indigenous group to go home after eight decades
Ecuador’s evicted Indigenous Siekopai community are set to return to their Amazon rainforest home, vowing to keep oil drilling at bay. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Brazil cracks down as wildcat miners in the Amazon shift their operations
Sucunduri, Brazil Reuters Deep in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil is fighting destructive wildcat gold mining as it spreads from Indigenous lands into government-protected conservation areas. Federal Police have joined the government’s biodiversity conservation agency ICMBio on a series of recent operations to catch illegal gold miners and destroy their camps and equipment. An illegal gold […]
Spike in Asia, Africa migrants turns Amazon jungle outpost into crossroads
Reuters A recent crackdown on migrant smuggling and human trafficking throughout the Americas turned up migrants from 69 countries, an indicator of the steep growth in Asians and Africans who are crossing oceans and continents to reach the United States. Coordinated by the international police organisation Interpol, the fifth annual Operation Turquesa united immigration enforcement […]
Amazon under threat: Impact of climate-driven drought may last until 2026
BRAD HAYNES and JAKE SPRING, of Reuters, report on the devastating impact of the drought gripping northern Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and parts of Venezuela and Colombia…
Amazon rainforest destruction slows sharply year to date, report says
Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters Destruction across the Amazon rainforest so far this year has slowed dramatically, down 55.8 per cent from the same period a year ago in a major turnaround for the region vital to curbing climate change, according to an analysis provided to Reuters. The analysis by the non-profit Amazon Conservation’s MAAP forest monitoring […]
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon falls to lowest since 2018
Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 22.3 per cent in the 12 months through July, government data showed on Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made good on a pledge to rein in the destruction that happened under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Some 9,001 square kilometres of Amazon jungle were […]