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Liberal Amazon
by O Liberal
The 'Liberal Amazon' project Podcast is an initiative of Grupo Liberal to enhance the world's access to information about the Amazon and assist the teaching and practice of the English language in the region.
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Brazil nut tree is an option for reforestation and bioeconomy
It is not new that the castanheira-da-Amazônia [Brazil nut tree] has social and economic importance in the context of the biome that names the tree. Traditional families, such as those made up of riverine people, indigenous people and quilombolas, guarantee part of their income from the…
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Oil exploration can generate 162 thousand jobs in the Amazon
Debates involving oil exploration in the Brazilian Equatorial Margin have encompassed energy transition, environmental and social impacts and, more recently, the capacity to generate employment and income. The region comprises the coast of Amapá and extends over 2,200 kilometers to Rio Grande do...
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Research needs to overcome challenges in the Amazon region
Research needs to overcome challenges in the Amazon region Doing research in the Amazon means that, in order to present results that bring development and a better life to the population that is part of the biome, there is a need for investment to deal with the conditions in which the…
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Tourism at COP 30 needs to leave structural, cultural and environmental legacies
The peculiarities surrounding Belém, host city of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 30), should serve as attractions for hundreds of tourists who will visit the capital of Pará. During the two weeks of the mega-event, in 2025, the eyes of the world will be on the city.…
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Social design and brand management enhance value of forest products
Social design and brand management enhance value of forest products The world is increasingly turning its attention to the Amazon. Whether for its climatic importance, the potential of its biodiversity, or a belated recognition of its traditional peoples, the region is a powerful symbol globally....
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Liberal Amazon:Teacher uses rural pedagogy to teach math
In the middle of a pineapple plantation, there is a secondary education and youth/adult education (EJA) classroom. To teach his classes, math teacher Nic Júnior replaces the formality of the traditional method for rural pedagogy. Instead of blackboard and chalk, he uses pineapple ploughing…
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LIBERAL AMAZON: A project enhances visibility to riverine people carpentry
A project enhances visibility to riverine people carpentry The styles, shapes, details, ideas, and knowledge produced by riverine carpenters from the islands of Pará are gaining prominence within the local and national markets. There are houses, restaurant structures, furniture, different types…
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LIBERAL AMAZON:Amazon resists siege of life that comes from outside
Amazon is the biome in Brazil with the fewest records of invasive alien species (IAS), whether animals or plants, making up the forest. The region has 80% remaining natural areas. This reality contrasts with that of the Atlantic Forest, which has only 12% to 28% of its original area. However, the...
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Liberal Amazon: Diplomatic agenda gears up for COP 30
Signing an agreement to reinforce the bioeconomy in the Amazon and to strengthen ties with the region is one of the reasons for the visit to Brazil the French President Emmanuel Macron has already signaled for this year. The agenda is supposed to take place in Belém, capital of the state of Pará....
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liberal Amazon: Landholding regularization is the key to preserve
The success of social justice and environmental conservation in the Amazon is largely dependent on the land tenure challenge endured for centuries in the region. In total, the biome has 118 million hectares of public land without a precise destination – an equivalent area to France’s and…
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Lost Amazon Cities Reveal Precolonial Urbanization
The assertion that the Amazon only became urbanized after Europeans invaded the region in the 15th century is part of an increasingly outdated imaginary. Recent discoveries in Ecuador, a South American country that shares part of the Amazonian territory with eight other nations, indicate that the...
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Liberal Amazon: Tourism is an option of prosperity for the stunning Marajó
Marajó island, located in the state of Pará, Northern Brazil, is part of the world’s largest fluviomarine archipelago, bathed by rivers and the Atlantic Ocean. With 16 municipalities and an area of approximately 50,000 km², the region is larger than Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo territories....
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LIBERAL AMAZON: Strategies strengthen the fight against crime in the largest region of Brazil
Long distances, isolated areas, difficult access, precarious communication and legal gaps that still await the presence of security forces, justice and public authorities in a more effective way. This is the scenario found by the organized crime when it settles in the corners of the Amazon. And…
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LIBERAL AMAZON: Pathfinders designed the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil is the largest country in South America, with an impressive area of 8,514,004 km². This giant nation also covers the largest portion of one of the most important biomes on the planet: the Amazon. It covers 6.7 million km², 60.1% of which belongs to the Brazilian territory. All this...
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LIBERAL AMAZON: Family production model becomes an alternative for sustainable development in the Amazon region
Family production model becomes an alternative for sustainable development in the Amazon region Putting a sustainable production model into practice, with the potential to feed the more than 1.3 million inhabitants of Belém, one of the main metropolises in the Amazon, has become a reality. Urban...
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LIBERAL AMAZON: The energy paradox in the Amazon
Even though it generates renewable energy, Amazon region has almost a million people living without electricity.
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LIBERAL AMAZON: The whole world is an island
If you are reading this article in the printed newspaper, under the light of a lamp, or in the digital version, on a computer screen, you are not part of the more than one million people in the Legal Amazon (1,154,916, in exact numbers) who do not have any access to electricity, according to data...
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Liberal Amazon: Mandioca: the "bread of the Amazon" against hunger
UFRA researcher explains how ancient culture that gained strength in the hands of forest people can be a solution to challenges imposed by dietary restrictions in Brazil
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Liberal Amazon: Urban Amazon: crucial path to sustainability
Combining science and traditional knowledge, study fronts in Architecture, urbanism and other areas advance in the search for solutions for constructions and basic plans against historical problems in the region
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Liberal Amazon: Science puts on a spurt to catalogue the biodiversity
To survey all sorts of forest life, scientists developed techniques, methodologies and new technologies, increasingly digital ones, to enhance data about known living beings on the planet. Liberal Amazon: Ciência aperta passo para catalogar a biodiversidade Para saber o que há de vida dentro de...
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Liberal Amazon - Pará Railway: a crucial project for the new phase of the Amazon economy
After years of negotiations with communities located in the railway's influence zones, the final design promises to get off the ground and boost exports of mineral and agribusiness products from the region to the world, connecting the south of Pará to the closest port to the States United States,...
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Amazon is strategic zone for US military interests
Exercise with 300 US military personnel and another 1,200 from the Brazilian Army across two states in northern Brazil reaffirms the importance of the forest in relations between the two countries and signals possible joint troop operations in the region.
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POD CAST LIBERAL AMAZON: Productivity: bees are the asset of açaí’s cultivation in the Amazon.
Uma peculiar aliança da natureza volta a ganhar atenção e vem transformando a produção do açaí na Amazônia: a presença de abelhas nas áreas onde açaizais se multiplicam vem garantindo até 40% a mais em produtividade -, o que demonstra a força da economia da floresta em pé e da sua…
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POD CAST LIBERAL AMAZON: Carbon credit market harasses populations and worries Amazon entities
The implementation of the carbon credit market in the Amazon has become the target of recent debates and criticism. The system, which repays those who reduce the release of gases responsible for the greenhouse effect, allows compensation for companies and other actors that try to reduce their...
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Liberal Amazon# Naea: 50 years of promoting the scientific role of the Amazon
For a long time, producing scientific knowledge about the Amazon meant consuming content from other parts of Brazil and the world. From researches to solutions to the problems faced in the region, the general interest in debating, analyzing, studying and presenting issues related to the reality...
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LIBERAL AMAZON: Oil exploration is safe for marine life in the Amazon
Research guarantees that there are no coral reefs on the Amazon coast as environmentalists maintain
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Reforestation creates jobs and generates income
Trees are essential to maintain human life on Earth. The first reason is that they sequester carbon through photosynthesis, an increasingly important asset in times of climate change. Furthermore, forests are shelters of biodiversity, especially fruits, leaves, roots and animals. And, finally,...
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LIBERAL AMAZON: Recycling industry is an ocean of opportunity
Mitigating the negative impacts of solid waste and preventing it from simply becoming "garbage" is crucial throughout the world, but in the Amazon, this awareness becomes even more important. After all, the Amazon is an ecosystem where rivers and springs, coastlines, mangroves, groundwater and...
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Pod Cast LIBERAL AMAZON: Devotion flourishes throughout Pará
"Círios", the song written by Marco Aurélio and Vital Lima, refers, in the plural, to the many “October months” experienced by people from Pará, not only in the capital. However, in an expanded interpretation, it could be a reminder of the plurality of feelings inspired by the Mother of Jesus...
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Liberal Amazon: Communities help preserve turtles
Regardless of how it is called – tortoise, iaçá or tracajá –, the chelonians of the Amazon have always caught the world's attention due to the high degree of species diversity, with different appearances and behaviors, as well as for the profusion of animals on the region's beaches and rivers.…
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Liberal Amazon: The most preserved mangroves in the world
There is one ecosystem in the Amazon where the pressure of deforestation cannot prevail: mangroves, which play a strong role in the socio-economic sustainability of riverside communities, as well as in the extraction of subsistence resources from the consumption of fish and crabs. A study carried...
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Liberal Amazon: Community-Based Tourism
In addition to the forests and rivers that make up the region's most characteristic scenery, the Brazilian Amazon has vast options of landscapes and destinations that enchant, such as dunes, mangroves and the coastal seashore. But it's not just the beauty that attracts tourists, but also the...
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Liberal Amazon: Use of pesticides offers risk to the health of the native amazonians
Used to protect crops from the destructive effects of insects, larvae, fungi and ticks, pesticides are synthetic chemical health-detrimental products, which silently become part of most Brazilians’ everyday life. In a country that shows its strong agricultural vocation through impressive numbers…
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LIBERAL AMAZON-Amazon Day: The challenge is to develop without destroying the region
"Amazon Day" will be celebrated this Tuesday (September 5). The date reinforces the importance of defining paths for the future of the planet's most important biome. With a territorial extension almost eight times the size of France, the Brazilian Amazon occupies almost 60% of the national...
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LIBERAL AMAZON:Combating devastation will unite ACTO countries
Sharing knowledge is one of the keys for the Pan-Amazon region to combat climate change. That's why the eight countries that share the biome (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela) have decided to formalize international cooperation to protect the region's…
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Future of the Amazon under discussion at COP 28
Put in the limelight on the socio-environmental agenda, the Amazon region should be one of the most debated topics at the 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, COP 28, to be held between November 30th and December 12th, this year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The countries that…
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Amazon Summit: Uncertainties remain about zero deforestation
Due to the absence of a zero deforestation goal and the lack of in-depth discussions regarding oil exploration in the region, the results of the "Amazon Summit", which ended on the 9th, were evaluated as below expectations by experts on environmental issues and civil society. The "Belem...
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PODCAST LIBERAL AMAZON:Amazon Summit to debate region's fate
Representatives of the eight member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization are meeting in Belém on the 8th and 9th for the Amazon Summit. The meeting is expected to result in the signing of the Belém Declaration, a 130-paragraph agreement between the countries that should start a...
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Golosa aims to conquer the world
You might not have heard about it yet, but the fruit – golosa – shows a trend of increasing popularity. It is one more option in the richly varied menu of Amazonian fruits that, little by little, is being discovered by the people of the region. The fruit is already highly sought-after in the...
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Ecofeminism: women and the defense of the environment
The concept of ecofeminism emerged amid the boiling environmental movement in the 1970s, with the term 'ecological feminism' appearing in the work 'Feminism or Death' by French philosopher and writer Françoise D'Eaubonne. Today, according to data from the United Nations (UN), 80% of people...
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Liberal Amazon: Manaus Free Trade Zone
The Manaus Industrial Pole is home to around 600 industries, is responsible for 108,373 workers employed and for a turnover of R$174.1 billion by companies that are part of the financial and tax incentive program, according to data consolidated in 2022 by the Superintendence of the Manaus Free...
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Science is the key to fighting crop pests and diseases
The pests and diseases that affect plantations in the Amazon should not be underestimated. Losses of 70% of açaí seedlings cultivated in nurseries due to anthracnose have already been identified. In the municipality of Tomé-Açu, in the northeast of the State of Pará, there is an example of the...
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Liberal Amazon #51 -Secas na Amazônia são resultado da interferência humana
The fact that it is a diverse biome makes the Amazon region home to many "Amazons," with portions that differ from one another due to their own characteristics. The trees in the southern belt of the Amazon ecosystem, for example, are more vulnerable to drought and therefore more likely to die.…
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Novo ciclo da borracha gera emprego e renda na Amazônia
A matéria-prima símbolo da economia da região na virada do século XIX para o século XX ergueu palácios e teatros no Norte do Brasil, com a riqueza concentrada nas mãos de uma elite que explorava seringueiros por meio da escravidão por dívidas, conhecida como “sistema de aviamento”. Hoje, o…
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Liberal Amazon #49: Amazon rivers carry riches
In the first quarter of the year, more than 103million tons of cargo went through the 83 ports in operation in the Amazon. Ofthis total, 78.5% refers to regional shipped products. The commodity dominatingthe statistics is iron ore, which accounts for 41% of everything that goes intothe ships and...
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LIBERAL AMAZON #48: Giant trees
Today's subject is the Paru Forest and it’s giant trees located between the states of Pará ANS Amapá, In Brazil. We also discuss the role the Sahara desert plays In the Amazon region and the wood wide web.
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LIBERAL AMAZON #47: Amazon Literature
Today's subject is Amazonian literature, rich in diversity and great authors. In the complete article, at liberalamazon.com, you can check out a timeline of the region's literary creation, with great authors and works.
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LIBERAL AMAZON #46: The challenges of 5G in the inner Amazon
The fifth generation of mobile connection, 5G, promises to be the next big step in technology based on the flow of information, with faster speed and reduced signal fluctuations for internet access. If, on the one hand, it is unquestionable that the speed can be 100 times greater than the current...
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LIBERAL AMAZON #45: Mercury spreads in the Amazon
Despite its prohibition in Brazil, the illegal commercialization of mercury continues to pose risks to human health throughout the national territory. In the Amazon, however, this problem is aggravated by the expansion of predatory mining activities in recent years.
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LIBERAL AMAZON #44: CRIME - The pain and agony of hunger in the forest
Indigenous people suffer from lack of food and water in the Amazon, one of the two richest world biomes in biodiversity. What seems contradictory is, in fact, the result of the rampant progress of criminal organizations and the absence of public policies for these populations. In this week's...
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The 'Liberal Amazon' project Podcast is an initiative of Grupo Liberal to enhance the world's access to information about the Amazon and assist the teaching and practice of the English language in the region.
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