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    The flower gatherers of the Serra do Espinhaço in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Image: João Roberto Ripper

    Survival of Brazil’s Flower-gatherers, a 300-year-old Activity, Threatened by Mining and State

    “The mountain range is our soil, our life,” affirms Maria de Fátima Alves, head ...

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    Thais Borges and Sue Branford
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    The BR-319 is now passable in the dry season due to a "maintenance" program begun in 2016 - Photo: P.M. Fearnside.

    Here Starts the End of Brazil’s Amazon Forest. It’s Called BR-319 Highway

    The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil’s military ...

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    Philip M. Fearnside
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    Women strip away the outer husk of the babassu palm nut. Image by Peter Caton courtesy of ISPN

    Big Agribusiness Threatens Livelihood of 400.000 Coconut Breakers in Brazil’s Cerrado

    Every September for half a century, Maria Antônia Trindade Mendes has started the babassu ...

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    Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo
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