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Brazil's new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

Por: ABC News Business January 22, 2023

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil’s incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency’s headquarters — even its coffee room — as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing.The ritual carried extra meaning for Joenia Wapichana, Brazil’s first Indigenous woman to command the agency charged with protecting the rainforest and its people. Once she is sworn in next... + full article



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