Brazil: We Need To Talk

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Pantanal calls for help

Against the government, which has done little or almost nothing to contain the fires in the Brazil’s Midwest, several ONGs are working to rescue animals and helping the affected population.

A task force coordinated by the Fire Committee (a collegiate group that brings together several government institutions, the third sector and private initiative) set up an Emergency Service for Wild Animals - PAEAS Pantanal to receive donations.

The group also created a “virtual cow” (https://voaa.me/vaquinha-pantanal) with the objective of raising money to finance actions that aim to help care for animals that lost their habitat due to fire. The campaign has already raised more than R $ 334 thousand - little more than the goal of R $ 300 thousand.

Learn about other actions below and learn how to help the population and ONGs that preserve the fauna, flora and diversity of the Pantanal:

AMPARA Animal The ONG created a campaign to raise funds for animals that are being rescued from burning in the Pantanal, which have occurred since July. AMPARA Animal is also recruiting veterinarians to compose a team of volunteers in the region. The Pantanal em Chamas campaign takes place on a crowdfunding website. To access it, click here.

Ecotropic Foundation Working for 31 years with the preservation of nature in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, the Ecotrópica Foundation currently strives to contain fires in the region and rescue animals injured and affected by the fire. The ONG is accepting any kind of donation. The needs range from masks, gloves, leggings, boots, t-shirts, saline, to medications such as gauze, burn ointments, rifocin, repellent and other pharmaceutical and personal items. Find out here how to help.

Acaia Institute Acaia Pantanal is present in the daily life of the riverside population, working with families and local actors, combining education and social protection as a means of ensuring the integral development of the residents of the riverside and contributing to the socio-environmental development of the region. See how to help by clicking here.

SOS Pantanal Instituto SOS Pantanal depends on partnerships and donations to maintain its structure and conduct its activities. Those who contribute, support actions aimed at the social, environmental and economic sustainability of the Upper Paraguay Basin, which houses the Pantanal. To donate, access here.

Arara Azul Institute The “Adopt a Nest” campaign aims to support the actions of the Arara Azul Project in the Pantanal, through research and monitoring of natural and artificial nests. The sponsorship of these nests, through adoption, will provide for the maintenance of the Pantanal’s biodiversity: both blue macaws and several other animal species that occupy the same cavities. See more here.

Ecoa - Ecology and Action The institution works directly in the territory of the Pantanal biome. The ONG exists in 1989 and provides training, awareness and preservation of the environment for the local population. help can be of any value. Here’s how to donate.

Hope Committee The Esperança Committee brings food, hygiene products and information to poor communities in the Pantanal and the Cerrado of Mato Grosso do Sul. Help by clicking here.

Instituto Homem Pantaneiro The IHP’s mission is “to preserve and preserve the Pantanal and its history by fostering the generation of knowledge for the development and replication of innovative and exemplary environmental technologies”. It is possible to help by donating materials or participating in some developed activity. Click here and see how to help.

Onçafari Institute Onçafari Forests aims to preserve areas of ecological interest. Properties with areas of native forest or in regeneration are donated by philanthropists to the association, which starts to protect them, guaranteeing shelter and passage for wild fauna. Find out more by clicking here.

Icas - Wild Animal Conservation Institute The Institute offers assistance, develops workshops for residents and educational material for children to encourage the preservation of fauna. The main program is aimed at the preservation of Tatu-Canastra, a species also present in the Pantanal region. Find out how to donate here.

WWF WWF works to protect endangered species, conserve large environmental areas, positively impact the lives of people who live in them. Pantanal is among the regions where the organization operates. Find out how to do your part by clicking here.

Wild Conservation Society (WCS) - Brazil The Brazilian branch of WCS develops a specific program for the Pantanal biome. The institute’s mission is to preserve, but also to promote scientific research on fauna and flora. Donations are made in dollars, starting at US $ 25

SOURCE: Catraca Livre

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DONATE IF YOU CAN GUYS.

1 US dollar is worth 5,27 reais

1 £ is worth 6,77 reais

1 € is worth 6,25 reais

YOUR MONEY IS WORTH A LOT IN BRAZIL. ANYTHING HELPS.

PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND

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Brazil is suffering from the worst COVID outbreak there is, and no one is talking about it. This is not just in terms of the number of cases, but also the government’s active refusal to do anything and in fact hurting attempts to help. 1 in every 4 COVID deaths in the world is in Brazil. There isn’t enough access to vaccines. Food is unaffordable, let alone masks. People are actually starving to death. Hospitals don’t have enough beds or oxygen. And if this is not enough of a reason to talk about it, the variant that is sweeping through Brazil is twice as contagious, and has also been seen to infect people who have already been infected with other variations of the virus. The variant has crossed borders already.

These Twitter threads give all the details that i know. Please go through this and share widely. 

The second twitter thread provides details of how to donate. Here is a link. It is in Portugese, but google translate is working fine here and also, the author of the thread will translate to guide donation if contacted. 

Please share with as many people as possible. The people of Brazil need international support.

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There are hungry people! One year after the start of the new coronavirus pandemic, almost 280 thousand lives have been lost due to the disease in Brazil and millions of unemployed, hungry and destitute people.

To face this tragedy, the Black Coalition for Rights, in partnership with Amnesty International, Oxfam Brasil, Redes da Maré, 342 Artes, ABCD - Brazilian Association for Combating Inequalities, Our - Activism Network, Ethos Institute, Organic Solidarity and Group Prerrô, launches the humanitarian support campaign to raise funds for actions to combat hunger, misery and violence.

The main objective is to distribute food and hygiene and cleaning products to 222,895 families in vulnerable situations, mapped in all regions of Brazil.

Make your donation and help thousands of people!

As the poem by Solano Trindade says that inspires this campaign: if there are hungry people, you can eat!

Contribute: www.temgentecomfome.com.br

#TemGenteComFome

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Marielle, presente

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Nádia Pontes

Across Brazil, burning for agricultural purposes was banned from mid-July to mid-November by a decree signed by President Jair Bolsonaro. But it is as if the law did not exist or had the opposite effect of the desired one: the number of fires in all regions increased in 2020 compared to last year, according to data from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).

In Mato Grosso, fires were already prohibited before Bolsonaro's decree, through a state decree. Although the prohibition period started earlier than usual in the state - it usually runs from July 15 to September 15 and this year it would initially go from July 1 to September 30 and has been extended until November 12 - the number of hot spots from July to September increased 57% compared to the same period last year.

Of the 39,900 fire points recorded by satellites of the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) in the state from January to September, 83% (33,100) occurred during the months of the ban, which are also the driest. Only in the Pantanal, which, proportionally, is the biome most impacted by the fires in Mato Grosso, 95% of the hot spots occurred in the prohibited period.

In addition, in 2020, fires in the region started earlier: January, February and April had already exceeded the number of hot spots last year. In September of this year, they exploded and reached double that recorded in the same month of 2019.

The outbreaks registered in the state of January until this Thursday (10/07) add up to 41.8 thousand, a number that was only surpassed in the last decade in 2010, which had 52.3 thousand outbreaks in the same period. Since Inpe's monitoring system started operating in 1998, the most critical year was 2004, when the brand reached 86,000 outbreaks in the period.

"[The ban] had no effect in reducing the scenario of heat sources and areas affected by fire", comments Vinícius Silgueiro, coordinator of the Center for Territorial Intelligence at the Centro e Vida Institute (ICV), who analyzed the data on the fires in the state.

"The feeling of impunity is very great. Seeing the main inspection body, which is Ibama, weakened as it is, is a message that whoever commits the crime will not be fined and, if so, can appeal and not pay the fine", analyzes.

Via  Nádia Pontes

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“I don't believe in "global warming".”

Charge by RIBS

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Biomas, 2019. 

Via Quebrando o Tabu

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European Parliament attributes Bolsonaro symbolic rejection of EU-Mercosur agreement

The European Parliament approved this Wednesday (10.7.2020) an amendment in a report on the application of European trade policy in which it says that the European Union free trade agreement with Mercosur cannot be ratified as it is, considering the policy of President Jair Bolsonaro.

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Pois é, quem diria que interferir no meio ambiente interfere na temperatura? 🥵

Via Bruno Ferreira

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O ministro do GSI, general Augusto Heleno, disse que o governo do presidente Jair Bolsonaro, em 1 ano e 9 meses de gestão, ainda “não teve tempo” para cuidar da Amazônia e do Pantanal.

Via Poder360

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Rescue of a Coati in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso. The situation of animals in the Pantanal is very sad. The fires have already consumed more than 20% of the biome. Many surviving animals are injured, dehydrated and hungry.

If animals had religion, man would be the devil.

Photo Caio Guatelli

Source: Quebrando O Tabu

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Meet Brigada Alto Pantanal

Since February 2020, Instituto Homem Pantaneiro has been mobilizing firefighting brigades with donated resources, but the fire is still bigger than the team and as it spreads quickly, the necessary training and hiring time can cause incalculable losses. . With this in mind, the Institute together with Lawrence Wahba and Documenta Pantanal had the initiative to create a professional brigade with trained, equipped and salaried men who will patrol the regions of Serra do Amolar, National Park and Encontro das Águas State Park. Place with the highest concentration of jaguars in the world and a fundamental area for the conservation of the environment and the economies of MT and MS.

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The Pantanal is on fire and you can help.

Follow: https: //www.instagram.com/brigada_alt ...

Access, Donate and Share: Brigada Alto Pantanal https://brigadaaltopantanal.org.br

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Since the end of Friday afternoon (the 25th) a fire started in Serra do Amolar and gained great proportions in RPPN Eliezer Batista. Teams from ihp_pantanal_, prevfogo and volunteer brigadiers, together with the Fire Department of Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná, are already in the region to help contain and extinguish the fire that spreads in two directions: towards south, by Fazenda Santa Tereza and Porto São Pedro; heading north, to Taquaral Bay. #Brigadaaltopantanal thanks everyone for their solidarity and believes that more teams will come together in this urgent mobilization.

Source: Brigada Alto Pantanal

Photos: André Zumak

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Veterinary Doctor Diego Viana and Biologist Sérgio Barreto, both from the IHP (Institute Homem Pantaneiro) team, traveled to the areas affected by the fires in Serra do Amolar, to carry out fauna rescue. During the work, a capybara was rescued, with severe burns. Even after the care and procedures, the animal did not resist.