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Radical Anthropology

A poet-anthropologist reflects on the resistance of rural women in the #Brazilian #Cerrado whose wisdom and knowledge help cultivate life amid the devastation of large-scale plantations.

'Pequi activates a sense of time, space, and materiality. It refers to a type of fruit that sprouts at a particular time of the year. Its trees grow exclusively in cerrado lands. Yet the smell spreads and touches people through cooking, and on the wind.'

#anthropology #gender #resistance #environment

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SAPIENS · Pequi WindsA poet-anthropologist reflects on the resistance of women in the Brazilian Cerrado whose wisdom cultivates life amid large-scale plantations.
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DoomsdaysCW

HT @Dragofix

Wildfires burn record 97% of key biodiversity area in Brazil’s Cerrado #Brazil #Cerrado #environment #biodiversity #wildfire #wildfires

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Mongabay Environmental News · Wildfires burn record 97% of key biodiversity area in Brazil’s CerradoIntense wildfires burned through a record-breaking 97% of the Serra das Araras conservation area in Brazil’s megadiverse Cerrado savanna earlier this year, the national parks agency, ICMBio, told Mongabay. Fire overwhelmed nearly all of the 28,700-hectare (71,000-acre) reserve, an area twice the size of San Francisco. It serves as a refuge to hundreds of species, […]
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beSpacific

More than 1/2 #Brazil racked by drought. Rio Madeira in #Amazonas locals r trekking miles on hot #sands of the dried riverbed in search of #water. In the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, fires have scorched an estimated 20,000 square kilometers (7,720 square miles). Vast #Cerrado region is in grip of worst drought in 700 yrs. Air in São Paulo state so heavy w #forestfire #smoke authorities have urged people to avoid physical activity outside #climatecrisis washingtonpost.com/world/2024/

The Washington Post · More than half of Brazil is racked by drought. Blame deforestation.By Terrence McCoy
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CelloMom On Cars

"A study from the University of São Paulo indicates the #Cerrado [#Brazil’s savanna biome] is experiencing its most severe #drought in centuries due to rising temperatures and disrupted rainfall patterns, confirmed through geological and weather data analysis.

This alarming finding is largely attributed to the effects of global warming, which have been particularly severe in Brazil’s central region."

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SciTechDaily · Climate Crisis: Brazil’s Cerrado Suffers Worst Drought in 700 YearsA study from the University of São Paulo indicates the Cerrado is experiencing its most severe drought in centuries due to rising temperatures and disrupted rainfall patterns, confirmed through geological and weather data analysis. Researchers at the University of São Paulo have discovered that C
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

It’s now nearing its conclusion, and #APROAB is working on organic certification for the #ÁguaBranca honey. Miranda will present Aguamel’s results and discuss a new project at a community meeting in July to keep things going.

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Mongabay Environmental News · In the land of honey and nuts: Indigenous solutions to save Brazil’s CerradoThe Nioaque Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state is home to some 2,000 Terena people living in four villages. The territory spans some 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of the Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse — but also most threatened — savanna biome. In the Terena village of Água Branca, residents are working […]
#NewEarth#Cerrado#Brazil
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

• The paving of the BR-242 and MT-322 highways and construction of the EF-170 rail line are among the controversial projects driven by agribusiness that are expected to highly impact #IndigenousTerritories in the biome.

•Indigenous communities are developing #EconomicProjects centered on the sustainable production of food resources native to the #Cerrado, in the process helping to safeguard the world’s most biodiverse #savanna and one of its richest in cultural diversity.

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

IN THE LAND OF HONEY AND NUTS: INDIGENOUS SOLUTIONS TO SAVE BRAZIL'S CERRADO

by Elizabeth Oliveira

• Indigenous groups including the #Terena, #Kayapó and #Kuikuro peoples are helping to both protect #biodiversity and improve their welfare in the #Cerrado by producing #honey, roasted baru nuts and babaçu palm oil.

• Brazil’s second-largest biome and one of its most deforested, the Cerrado has lost half its original vegetation due to pressure from agribusiness and infrastructure projects.

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Mongabay

Protecting the Amazon has garnered significant international attention, and for good reason, given its pivotal role in regulating the global climate and harboring immense biodiversity. However, with the world focused on the rainforest’s preservation, a neighboring biome faces an alarming surge in destruction: the Cerrado.

By Sarah Brown
news.mongabay.com/2023/08/a-ta

Mongabay Environmental NewsA tale of two biomes as deforestation surges in Cerrado but wanes in AmazonBrazil has managed to bring down spiraling rates of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest in the first half of this year, but the neighboring Cerrado savanna has seen a wave of environmental destruction during the same period.
#News#Conservation#Environment
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