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Added on the 16/09/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Relatives of four Indigenous environmentalists killed in 2014 in an Amazon area on the Peru-Brazil border march to a Peruvian court in Pucallpa, where the perpetrators were sentenced to nearly three decades in prison. IMAGES
Datem del Marañón (Peru), Sep 17 (EFE) (Camera: Carla Samon).- Like an oasis in the middle of the desert, so are the plants that supply precious ice to two Kandozi communities that live off artisanal fishing in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, in villages that hardly appear on maps and where electricity and drinking water are not available.FOOTAGE OF FISHING IN THE KANDOZI COMMUNITY.
Datem del Marañón (Peru), Sep 14 (EFE) (Camera: Carla Samon) .- When her husband sentenced her to singleness for not being able to have children, Balbina Sundi Akumbari, from the Kandozi people, found her best ally in the Taricaya turtles to assert herself and help other women like her who resist the scourge of machismo so deeply rooted in the remote community where she lives, deep in the Peruvian Amazon.FOOTAGE OF THE SITUATION OF NATIVE WOMEN IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte's convoy leaves the Peruvian Prosecutor's building in Lima after she appeared before prosecutors for questioning over her Rolex watches, expensive jewelry, and unexplained bank deposits, in a scandal that has shaken the country's fragile government. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES