Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups across Brazil.
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Amazon deforestation cut by 83% in places protected by Indigenous communities – new research, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
May 2024[edit | edit source]
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)
April 2024[edit | edit source]
Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
March 2024[edit | edit source]
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)
February 2024[edit | edit source]
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)
December 2023[edit | edit source]
Opportunities from a community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
November 2023[edit | edit source]
‘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)
October 2023[edit | edit source]
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)
September 2023[edit | edit source]
Indigenous women are showing us how to fight for environmental and human rights, V (formerly Eve Ensler), theguardian.com (Sep 25, 2023)
August 2023[edit | edit source]
‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2023)
July 2023[edit | edit source]
An indigenous solution to deforestation in the Amazon, courier.unesco.org (Jul 05, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
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)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Brazil news (latest), 2016-2021, 2007-2015
- Brazil community action