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  2. Environmental issues in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Environmental issues in Brazil include deforestation, illegal wildlife trade, illegal poaching, air, land degradation, and water pollution caused by mining activities

  3. Environment of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil is located in South America. The environment of Brazil is characterized by high biodiversity with a population density that decreases away from the coast.. Brazil's large area comprises different ecosystems, which together sustain some of the world's greatest biodiversity.

  4. Climate change in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Taking into account the different projections that imply potential impacts on natural and human systems (socioeconomic and environmental), it is already possible to analyze the expected impacts of climate change in the various sectors of Brazil, and the planning and decision making to define adaptation strategies and mitigation policies." [22]

  5. Brazil faces record wildfires and drought — and it may only ...

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    Brazil’s Supreme Court authorized lifting spending restrictions on the environmental disasters in the Amazon and Pantanal regions over the weekend, Reuters reported on Sunday.

  6. Tons of dead fish cover major Sao Paulo river after alleged ...

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    Sao Paulo’s state environmental agency, known in Portuguese as CETESB, first received reports of the mass die-off and strong odor emanating from the river on July 7.

  7. Conservation in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Defend the environment by raising awareness about environmental issues and influence people to change their habits. WWF-Brasil: 1996: Instruct Brazilian society on how to use natural resources in a rational manner. Conservation International (CI) 1987: Protect biodiversity and instruct society on how to live in harmony with nature. Akatu Institute

  8. Brazil's Congress weakens pro-environment ministries in a ...

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    In a rejection of early moves by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who took office in January, Brazil’s Congress has stripped powers from the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry ...

  9. Deforestation in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Deforestation in Brazil has been linked with an extractive economic growth model that relies on factor accumulation (labor, capital, land) rather than total factor productivity, where Brazil's frontier expansion in the "arc of deforestation" is a manifestation of land accumulation. [22]