[Africa Climate Change]
Daily Maverick: “The impacts of ecosystem degradation on biodiversity, land productivity and human well-being in Africa have affected more than 485 million people, already costing an estimated $9.3-billion annually.”
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Deforestation
We must Act now to Conserve African Nature
Brazil: Bolsonaro Mismanaging COVID-19, Destroying Amazon Through Deforestation
[Brazil\COVID-19\Amazon]
CNN: “There is no telling how grim things might get for Brazilians left largely unprotected by their President, Jair Bolsonaro…the far-right populist sometimes known as ‘Tropical Trump’ also manages protection of the Amazon.”
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Latin America’s Black and Indigenous Women face “Triple Pandemic”
[Black Latin & Indigenous Women]
Thomas Reuters Foundation: “Women from Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, and other local communities are among the hardest hit by COVID-19. Health inequities and other forms of discrimination render them particularly vulnerable.”
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