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Lalo de Almeida, 1er premio FIDA, 2021

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  • Employees douse a fire set by protesters inside a Carrefour supermarket in São Paulo during a protest against the murder of black man Joao Alberto Freitas at a different Carrefour supermarket the night before, on Brazil's National Black Consciousness Day. Freitas died after being beaten by supermarket security guards in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.
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  • Residents walk amongst the burnt out remains of shacks that were destroyed by a fire in the northern part of Sao Paulo.More than 2 million people live in precarious communities like this one in Sao Paulo, mostly without access to water and sewage.
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  • Workers from the São Luiz cemetery wearing protective clothing walk towards a reserved area to bury the victims of Covid-19.  Only in this cemetery in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, were opened 3.050 new graves to receive the victims of the pandemia, that already killed more than 190.000 people in Brazil. (as of 26 December 2020).
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  • Women walk along a road in the rural area of Guaribas, Piauí state, one of the poorest regions of Brazil. For most of the population, getting food and water is a daily challenge. With no alternative income, many families migrate to large cities in southeastern Brazil in search of work.<br />
Guaribas was chosen in 2003 to be the pilot city for the first social welfare program of President Lula da Silva's government, which later became the Bolsa Família, one of the largest anti-poverty programs in the world.
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  • Cemetery workers wearing protective clothing bury a victim of Covid-19 in the Vila Formosa cemetery in São Paulo. Amongst Latin American countries Brazil, the largest and most populous, has seen the worst effects and the largest number of infections and deaths, second only to the United States. The number of people who have tested positive in the country have now surpassed 7 million and more than 190.000 people have died (as of 26 December 2020).
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  • With the election of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right Brazil’s President and its environmentally regressive policies , the Amazon Rainforest is passing through a new devastation cycle, with large scale exploitation of natural resources, including protected areas, the prospect of building large infrastructure projects across the rainforest and the threat to indigenous peoples. Empowered by the president's speeches, criminals who were already engaging in illegal activities such as gold mining in protected areas, invasion of indigenous lands, illegal logging and land grabbing, became even more willing to intensify their actions. In addition, this government has weakened environmental enforcement agencies and non-governmental organizations, which act as a counterweight, albeit unequal, to this predatory model of exploitation. The outcome of this new catastrophic policy for the Amazon region is the deforestation of 11.088 km2 between August 2019 to July 2020, according to National Institute
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  • Rubber tapper Rian Azevedo de Barros, 18, extracts latex from a rubber tree in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, in Xapuri, which was the most threatened and deforested protected area in 2019, according to IMAZON data. Much of the forest in the reserve is being destroyed for cattle pasture. The extractive reserve was created in 1990 to provide a sustainable model of forest exploitation for the traditional populations that inhabited this territory. The idea was to extract forest products, such as Brazil nuts and rubber, to provide income for these populations while maintaining the forest preserved.
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  • Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, a resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve in the Amazonas state, cuts the vegetation with the help of a chainsaw to make way for the canoe in the stream that leads to the Antimary Extractive Settlement Project, where they collect Brazil nuts. This area is being invaded by land grabbers who are deforesting the jungle, threatening the way of life of this traditional population.
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  • Area recent deforested in Apuí, a municipality located along the Trans-Amazonian highway, in the south of Amazonas state.<br />
Apuí is on the front line of agricultural expansion in the Amazon, occupying the seventh position of municipalities more deforested in 2019. Between January and August 2020 alone, 23,186 hectares were deforested, 5.1% more than last year's devastation. The data is from the non-governmental MapBiomas initiative, which monitors land use in the country
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  • Xikrin warriors arrive at Rapko village after jungle expedition to remove invaders from the Trincheira Bacajá Indigenous Land, in Pará state, which had part of their area invaded and deforestated by land grabbers. Abandoned by the government agencies, indigenous people organized themselves to defend their territory and fight against deforestation. Last year, Trincheira Bacajá lost 3,969 hectares of forest, the highest rate of deforestation since homologation, according to Sirad X monitoring.
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  • Area deforested by land grabbers in the Trincheira Bacajá Indigenous Land, in Pará state. President Bolsonaro's speeches denigrating indigenous populations acted as a stimulus for the invaders of indigenous lands. Last year, Trincheira Bacajá lost 3,969 hectares of forest, the highest rate of deforestation since homologation, according to Sirad X monitoring.
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  • Men work in a gold mining in Peixoto de Azevedo in northern Mato Grosso, which is one of the largest gold producing areas in Brazil. Part of the extraction activity is illegal and even those  legalized do not comply with environmental legislation because there is no enforcement by the Brazilian authorities. The result is polluted rivers and degraded regions that look more like the lunar soil than a territory that was once covered by the Amazon rainforest.
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  • Riot police walk down a dirt road inside the Bom Futuro National Forest, in Rondonia state, to remove invaders who had set up a camp with about 200 shacks inside the reserve. In 2019, Bom Futuro has lost 874 hectares of forest, according to Inpe (National Institute for Space Research). This is the largest loss of vegetation cover in this conservation unit in 12 years.<br />
Empowered by the president's speeches, criminals who were already engaging in illegal activities such as invasion of indigenous lands and protected areas became even more willing to intensify their actions.
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  • Ibama's ( Brazil's environmental protection agency ) headquarters in Humaitá, in southern Amazonas, which was set on fire in 2017 by miners after an agency operation to combat illegal gold mining on the Madeira River, and which remains abandoned. Southern Amazonas is one of the regions with the highest rates of deforestation in Brazil.<br />
Since the election of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right Brazilian President, the government has weakened environmental enforcement agencies and non-governmental organizations, which act as a counterweight, albeit unequal, to this predatory model of exploitation.
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  • Statue of an ox indicates the entrance of a farm for confinement of cattle in Peixoto de Azevedo, in northern Mato Grosso, along the BR-163 highway. This region that was once covered by the Amazon rainforest has been deforested to make way for gold mining, pasture for livestock and soybean plantations. The BR-163 links the city of Cuiabá to Santarém and in recent years it has been paved and transformed into a main corridor for the export of soy, produced in Mato Grosso.
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  • The Pantanal region of Brazil – world’s largest tropical wetland – has witnessed apocalyptic scenes this year. Between January and November 2020 over a quarter of the Pantanal has been burned. The fires have received less attention than those in Australia and California but in terms of its biodiversity, the Pantanal it is one of our planet’s most important ecosystems. Many of the fires are started by farmers but they have been exacerbated by climate change. Climate modelling suggests that the Pantanal could become hotter and drier, with a rise in temperature of up to 7 ºC by the end of the century The region is currently suffering from the worst drought in 50 years causing the fires to rage out of control while the policies of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro have weakened conservation regulation and enforcement and have even gone so far as to block funding for fire enforcement.
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  • A Bugio monkey ( Alouatta ) left carbonized after it was burned to death by a forest fire that swept through the Santa Tereza farm in the Pantanal. The forest fires in the region were so intense that not even the fastest animals were able to escape its flames.<br />
In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.
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  • Fire brigade members from IBAMA - Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources - are transported to combat a forest fire at Santa Tereza farm, in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul. <br />
The region is currently suffering from the worst drought in 50 years causing the fires to rage out of control while the policies of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro have weakened conservation regulation and enforcement and have even gone so far as to block funding for fire enforcement.
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  • Firefighters combat a fire outbreak at the São Francisco de Perigara farm, which is home to one of the largest populations of Hyacinth macaws ( Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus ) in Brazil. About 95% of the farm area, mostly dedicated to preservation, was destroyed by the fires.<br />
In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.
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  • The burnt landscape alongside the Transpantaneira park road near Porto Jofre, in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso. With 15 million hectares, the Pantanal is recognized by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve, and it is one of the most important Brazilian biomes. <br />
In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.
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  • Caiman killed by wildfires along the Transpantaneira park road in the Pantanal.<br />
In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.
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  • Fire brigade from the Sesc Porto Cercado hotel's private force sit on top of a water truck looking up at an airplane as it drops a load of water onto a fire burning near the hotel in the Pantanal.<br />
In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.
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  • Dead calves killed by the wildfires that devastated the São Francisco farm, in the rural area of Santo Antonio Leverger, in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso. More than 250 cattle died because of the fire and 4,300 hectares of the farm were destroyed. Cattle raising is a traditional activity in the Pantanal region and is part of the local culture.
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  • Fire burns the forest at Santa Tereza farm, in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul. <br />
In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.
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  • A dead deer lies in a pasture burned by wildfires in an area of the Pantanal devastated by a wildfires from which even the swiftest of animals could not escape.<br />
In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.
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