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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
BBC News · Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit - BBC NewsThe infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
#climateChange#Amazonas#COP30
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Instituto SINCHI announces the discovery of a new species of tiny fish, Priocharax rex , in Río Putumayo, Amazonas, Colombia

sinchi.org.co/nueva-especie-de

sinchi.org.coNueva especie de pez miniatura es descubierta en el Río Putumayo, Amazonas, Colombia El pez Priocharax rex se destaca como el más grande de su género y por una bolsa de piel única ubicada entre sus aletas pélvicas. Es considerada una especie con distribución geográfica limitada (parte media de la cuenca del río Putumayo en Colombia), lo que la hace vulnerable a amenazas como la deforestación y la contaminación.  Este hallazgo abre la posibilidad a la formulación de estrategias y políticas de conservación.
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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.

An old-fashioned map, with locations given in Spanish, showing the Equator (Linea Equinoccial) prominently in the upper quarter. Below it, the Amazon River and tributary rivers (Putumayo, Yupura, etc.) Names of the various peoples who live along the river are written in. A source line says that the source is Samuel Fritz, 1707, "El gran rio Marañon, o Amazonas" (The great Cashew river, or Amazon).
#AmazonRiver#Amazonas#Amazonia
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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.

two people are pressing cassava starch (tapioca) onto a large , flat frying pan over a wood fire. There is freshly grilled fish in the foreground and a turquoise tarp wall in the background.
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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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The photo shows two of the large copoazú fruits, still attached to the tree, and the large leaves of the tree. Text says “Copazú” and “Theobroma grandiflorum” In small print it says the photo is copyright Pablo Ramos for Fundación Omacha, and it has the logo of the org.
The beautiful and complicated yellow-orange and crimson flower of copoazú, attached to a tree branch with a green mottled background. Text in Spanish says “Flor fecundada de copoazú”—the fertilized flower of copoazú—and “Sus flores son polinizadas por distintas especies de mosca y su néctar es aprovechado por sbejas, abejorros y hormigas”—Its flowers are pollinated by different species of fly, and bees, bumblebees, and ants take advantage of its nectar.
Another shot of the copoazú fruit hanging from the tree, with a leafy golden green backround. A cup of brown powder is next to the fruit. The main text says “Su fruto present de 20 a 50 semillas, aporta un alto porcentaje nutricional y es usado en la preparación de diversos alimentos y cosméticos”--Its fruit has 20 to 50 seeds that have a high nutritional value and are used in the preparation of diverse foods and cosmetics. Text pointing at the fruit says “Usado en la medicina traditional para prevenir la aparición de tumores y cardiopatías.”—used in traditional medicine to prevent tumors and heart disease. Text pointing at the cup says “Se puede obtener chocolate a partir de sus semillas”--Chocolate can be obtained from its seeds.
A big copoazú leaf in a person’s hand, against a background of the bark of a tree. The main text says “Presenta una aplia distribución en la region amazónica, su cultivo se realiza en tierras no inundables y con buen drenaje.”—It’s widely distributed in the Amazon region and can be cultivated on land that doesn’t flood and that has good drainage. Text pointing to the leaf says “Con las hojas se realizan vaporizations para tartar enfermedades respiratorias.”—the leaves are used for steam treatments for respiratory ailments.
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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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A group of indigenous women and children stand in front of a maloca (traditional communal house; often used today as a community center). Some of the women hold blowguns.
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