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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Toda esa selva tropical perdida, todo ese mercurio que se filtra en los sistemas de agua, envenenando a los pueblos indígenas y la vida silvestre. ¡Solo por un poco de oro! El precio de este oro es demasiado alto… ¡No podemos permitírnoslo!

Barbara Crane Navarro

Madre y bebé Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro

«¿No entiendes por qué queremos proteger nuestro bosque? ¡Pregúntame, te responderé! Nuestros antepasados fueron creados con él al principio de los tiempos. Desde entonces, nuestra gente se ha comido su caza y sus frutos. Queremos que nuestros hijos crezcan riendo aquí.

En el pasado, muchas de nuestras personas murieron como resultado de tus epidemias. ¡Hoy, me niego a dejar que nuestros hijos y nietos mueran por el humo dorado! ¡Caza a los mineros de oro de nuestra casa! Son seres nocivos cuyo pensamiento es oscuro. Son devoradores de metales cubiertos por el humo mortal de la epidemia de xawara. »

  • El portavoz y chamán YanomamiDavi Kopenawa

Una selva en territorio Indígena antes de la invasión de los mineros de oro

El 30% de lo que ahora se reconoce como tierra indígena ancestral corre el riesgo de ser abierto…

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Cadastro Ambiental Rural facilita grilagem de terras públicas na Amazônia! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Neil Palmer/CIAT O Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR), principal instrumento de regularização ambiental no Brasil, tem sido usado por grileiros para a reivindicação de terras públicas na Amazônia. Artigo publicado na revista “Land Use Policy” na segunda (2) mostra que 90,5% de área no sul do Amazonas registrada no CAR é considerada propriedade privada ilegal. Quase […] […]

Cadastro Ambiental Rural facilita grilagem de terras públicas na Amazônia! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Highway that will link Brazil to Peru threatens the most biodiverse area of ​​the Amazon – Eng / Port — Wirral In It Together — Barbara Crane Navarro

Sérgio Vale / Acre News Agency/ Marcos Pędłowski The project to build a highway in the Serra do Divisor National Park, in the Southwest of Acre, represents a threat to the biodiversity and quality of life of the indigenous population. This is what a study by researchers from the National Institute for Research in the […] […]

Highway that will link Brazil to Peru threatens the most biodiverse area of ​​the Amazon – Eng / Port — Wirral In It Together — Barbara Crane Navarro

एक कठिन कार्य / A Difficult Task

काश वह मेरी होती या मैं उसकाजब भी मैं उसे देखतायही खयाल आतापर कह नहीं पातादिल धड़कता था मासूमियत सेपर जाने उसके मन में क्या हैकुछ कहूं और वह ना कर …

एक कठिन कार्य / A Difficult Task

Record low wild salmon catch in Scotland alarms ecologists | Fish | The Guardian

Last year’s catch figures were affected by Covid lockdowns during spring 2021, but the data is consistent with recent trends. In 2018, the last full year before the pandemic, the wild salmon catch set the previous record low of just over 37,600. In 2010, anglers caught over 111,400 salmon.

The data has alarmed fisheries experts and ecologists. Wild salmon and trout are a keystone species for many mammals and birds, and a plunging fish population harms other creatures such as otter, osprey and mergansers, damaging the wider ecosystem.

Salmon are highly sensitive to water temperature and reduced water purity. Their decline is seen as unequivocal evidence that the climate crisis, pollution, fish farming and industrial activities are causing wider environmental harm.

 

Source: Record low wild salmon catch in Scotland alarms ecologists | Fish | The Guardian

Scientists Are Using YouTube to Understand How Elephants Mourn Their Dead – Sarah Kuta June 1, 2022 2:23 p.m. — Just Sayin’

The research is part of a growing trend of using crowdsourced videos to learn about elusive or hard-to-study animals Asian elephants Pixabay Researchers had long heard stories about Asian elephants seemingly mourning their dead—and had even witnessed these behaviors in the wild a handful of times. But the large forest dwellers are elusive, and mourning behaviors […]

Scientists Are Using YouTube to Understand How Elephants Mourn Their Dead – Sarah Kuta June 1, 2022 2:23 p.m. — Just Sayin’

Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology – Eawag – filtering out nano-plastics

The results are now in, and they include some reassuring findings. In a report published today in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, the researchers show that even if untreated water contained considerable quantities of nanoplastics, these particles were retained in sand filters very efficiently during water treatment. Both in laboratory tests and in a larger test facility located directly on the premises of the Zurich Water Works, the biologically active slow sand filter was the most effective at retaining nanoparticles – achieving an efficacy level in the region of 99.9%.Source: Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology – Eawag