‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

  • At the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France, Indigenous leaders and conservationists have called for support of their effort to protect 80% of the Amazon Basin by 2025.
  • Scientists say the Amazon region has already lost 17% of its forest cover and that an additional 17% has been degraded by forest loss, fragmentation, wildfires and drought, and that these pressures are pushing the rainforest toward a critical tipping point.
  • While the recognition of Indigenous land rights would be a critical first step, experts say that Indigenous communities need support in enforcing their land rights and their efforts to defend the Amazon.
  • A motion that would support area-based conservation targets with the view to protecting at least 80% of the Amazon by 2025 has been approved for a vote at the IUCN congress, although the date for the actual vote has not yet been set.

Source: ‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

Gotas de orvalhos

Drops of dew
“Let us embrace the simplicity of life as one who cherishes one’s dreams. Behold, there is the real beauty of our existence. Sometimes, vague attitudes can lead us to certain distractions, but it is by cleaning the draft of life that we touch what seems greedy to many, but for what it takes with it the silence, the certainty of hope, as if it were at dawn drops of dew ”.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

“Abracemos a simplicidade da vida como quem acalenta os próprios sonhos. Eis que nela, existe a real beleza de nossa existência. Por vezes, vagas atitudes podem nos levar a certas distrações, mas é passando a limpo o rascunho da vida que tocamos aquilo que para muitos parece cobiçoso, mas para que leva consigo o silêncio, a certeza da esperança, como quem encontra no amanhecer gotas de orvalhos”.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Imagem: pinterest/ Done Dreaming.

Santarém, Pá 8 de setembro de 2021

View original post

Meatpacking & Farm Workers to Receive $600 Grants in $700M Aid Plan | Food Manufacturing

Meatpacking workers and farm workers who were severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic will be eligible to get grants of up to $600 per person as part of a new $700 million aid program the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday. Officials said the grants are meant to defray some of the costs workers bore as many of them bought their own protective equipment or took unpaid leave as the virus tore through their industries even as they were required to keep showing up for work. “While the rest of America could work from home, these brave men and women continued to show up for work every single day to ensure that we all food on our tables that we could eat,” said Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union. “Meatpacking plants experienced some of the most deadly COVID-19 outbreaks when the pandemic first came around and there were workers that are deserving of our help, and our thanks and our support.”

Source: Meatpacking & Farm Workers to Receive $600 Grants in $700M Aid Plan | Food Manufacturing

13 Miami-area school staffers die of COVID-19 since start of new academic year | TheHill (Me: Direct result of Governor’s actions and inaction on Covid in Florida)

Thirteen staffers from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, all of whom were unvaccinated, have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the new academic year in August. Among the 13 who died from the virus were four teachers, one security monitor, one cafeteria worker and seven school bus drivers, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Source: 13 Miami-area school staffers die of COVID-19 since start of new academic year | TheHill