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Greenpeace samba campaigners in London join worldwide call to save Amazon

Last edited 29 November 2011 at 12:45pm
29 November, 2011

Greenpeace campaigners in London today joined forces with a samba band and marched to the Brazilian Embassy in a last-ditch bid to save the Amazon.

The activists paraded from Hyde Park to the embassy in Mayfair, where a banner saying ‘Save the Amazon’ was hoisted on a lamp-post and the band played for the embassy staff.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, deforestation, dilma rousseff, forest code, forests, samba

Time to keep promises on protecting the Amazon

Posted by sebastianbock — 25 November 2011 at 7:00am - Comments
Burning pasture in the Amazon
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace/Rodrigo Baleia
Deforestation in the Amazon will increase if changes to the Forest Code are passed

Copenhagen, December 2009: amidst the general feeling of disappointment due to the lack of leadership at the UN climate conference, Brazil is responsible for one of the very few rays of hope: the chief of cabinet announces a set of very ambitious environmental targets, including a commitment to a 80 per cent reduction in deforestation by 2020. The chief of cabinet's name? Dilma Rousseff. Her job today? President of Brazil.

Article tagged as: amazon, brazil, deforestation, dilma rousseff, forest code

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