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Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit

"A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.

The state government touts the highway's "sustainable" credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.

The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity, and many say this deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit."

bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r

The road under construction
www.bbc.comAmazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summitThe infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

Map of the Amazon River from 1707, naming the various peoples who live along it.

You can see in the source line that in those days, another name for the Amazon was "Marañon"--Cashew. The great Cashew River.

My proximate source for the image is a recorded class by the linguist Denis Bertet.

Congratulations, casabe, on being recognized by UNESCO as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity

All of us who have ever had you already knew that you are delicious, but nice to have that fact recognized far and wide.

NPR story: npr.org/2024/12/19/nx-s1-52281

Photo is my friend's mom letting me help make some. The Ticuna word for casabe is dowü.

Let me introduce you to a great fruit of the Amazon known in Colombian Spanish as copoazú (Theobroma grandiflorum). These pictures come from Fundación Omacha's Twitter feed. (Alas, many orgs still are only there) It's related to cacao (Theobroma cacao), which gives us chocolate. (As the third picture says, you can also get chocolate from copoazú)

Fundación Omacha link: omacha.org

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"Ser guardiana no es solo cuidar el territorio, es también cuidar de nuestras familias. Nuestra lucha es por la vida, por la tierra, ye por nuestros hijos" --quote from a post by Escuela de Comunicación Indígena de la Amazonía facebook page, October 1 2024. Photo is from that page.

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