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In 1988 the US-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) funded the musical Yanomamo, by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, to convey what is happening to the people and their natural environment in the Amazon rainforest. [66] It tells of Yanomami tribesmen/tribeswomen living in the Amazon and has been performed by many drama groups around the world. [67]
Cacique (a Native American word for chieftain) Raoni Metuktire was born in the state of Mato Grosso in 1932, in the heart of the Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest, in a village called Krajmopyjakare (today called Kapôt in the Brazilian municipality of Peixoto de Azevedo). Born in the Metuktire family of Kayapo people, he is one of ...
The Pirahã (Portuguese pronunciation: [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) [a] are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. [2]
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Last year, Biden said he would request $500 million from the U.S. Congress to support the Amazon Fund. However, the United States had delivered on just a tenth of that pledge by July.
Brazil is preparing to launch a center for international police cooperation to combat environmental crimes and drug trafficking in the Amazon rainforest by the end of 2023, Federal Police ...
President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a call for future generations to protect the wildlife in the region. Biden also pointed out that his successor, president ...
The Awá are people living in the eastern Amazon rainforest. There are approximately 350 members, and 100 of them have no contact with the outside world. They are considered highly endangered because of conflicts with logging interests in their territory. [30] The Kawahiva live in the north of Mato Grosso. They are constantly on the move and ...