Now playing Next Brazil Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change Eight Amazon nations called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest as they met at a major summit in Brazil to chart a common course on how to combat climate change. 09/08/2023
Now playing Next Brazil Two-day Amazon summit set to focus on climate change and human rights Eight South American countries are meeting in Brazil to thrash out co-ordinated policies for the Amazon basin. 08/08/2023
Now playing Next Colombia Children found alive in the Amazon 40 days after plane crash The frantic search for survivors began on 1 May after a single-engine propeller plane carrying six passengers crashed in the Amazon jungle. 10/06/2023
Now playing Next no comment WATCH: Indigenous Brazilians march ahead of trial over land future Indigenous Brazilians marched through Brasilia on Tuesday ahead of a hearing on a proposed law that will limit their land rights. 07/06/2023
Now playing Next Brazil Calls for justice for duo murdered in Amazon rain forest a year ago A year after their deaths, relatives led demonstrations in several Brazilian cities in memory of a British journalist and an indigenous expert murdered in the Amazon rain forest. Dom Phillips was an environmental reporter and Bruno Pereira was his guide. 06/06/2023
Now playing Next no comment Oil spill in Ecuador's Amazon region a result of 'sabotage' The spill was captured in a video by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, 10km from Lago Agrio, the capital of Sucumbios in northeast Ecuador. 11/05/2023
Now playing Next world news Brazil's Lula recognises 1,200 square km of Indigenous land Brazil has recognised six Indigenous areas, most of which are in the threatened Amazon rainforest. 29/04/2023
Now playing Next Green News Brazil: Illegal mining has caused Indigenous ‘genocide’, Lula says President Lula wants to reduce deforestation and gold mining in the Amazon. He has done so in the past - during his 2003-2010 tenure in office, Amazon deforestation dropped by 72 per cent. 23/01/2023
Now playing Next Green News Brazil makes official bid to host UN climate talks in Amazonia The north eastern city of Belem has been named as the potential host of COP30 as President Lula fulfils promises made at COP27. 16/01/2023
Now playing Next no comment Santa Claus delivers presents in the Amazon A charity aims to give presents to 4,500 children in poor communities along Brazil's Amazon by sending Santa Claus to see them on a river boat. 19/12/2022
Now playing Next world news Watch : Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reaches a record high Deforestation in the Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest has hit a record level, the highest since satellite tracking began in 2015, according to government data. 12/11/2022
Now playing Next Green News Forest fires and illegal deforestation devastate the Brazilian Amazon Fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased 18 per cent compared to last year, while deforestation is at a record high, according to Greenpeace Brazil. 04/09/2022
Now playing Next no comment Fires ravage Brazil's Amazon rainforest Fires rage in the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, state of Rondonia, northern Brazil. Experts say the fires are caused mainly by illegal farmers, ranchers and speculators clearing land and torching the trees. 01/09/2022
Now playing Next world news Lula vows to restore ties with EU if elected Brazil's next president Presidential hopeful, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, vows to restore ties with EU if he is elected in October. 30/08/2022
Now playing Next Brazil In Manaus, a carpet of rubbish covers the Amazon River’s tributaries Set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the Brazillian city of Manaus has a massive rubbish problem. 04/07/2022
Now playing Next no comment Santa visits children in Amazon riverine communities Santa Claus went around the Solimões River Saturday, stopping at riverine communities along the jungle shoreline in the Amazon basin to bring gifts for the children and Christmas cheer for everyone else. 19/12/2021
Now playing Next Cult Salgado's exhibition highlights Amazon forest destruction Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado teamed up with musician Jean-Michel to highlight the destruction of the Amazon forest, and to slam Bolsonaro 22/05/2021
Now playing Next no comment Brazil's Amazon riverside communities receive COVID jabs Brazil has recorded nearly 10 million cases of COVID-19 and 234,000 deaths. 10/02/2021
Now playing Next World Amazon deforestation at highest level in 12 years, new data reveals The 11,088 square kilometres that were deforested between July 2019 and August 2020 marks an increase of 9.6% compared to last year. 01/12/2020
Now playing Next Next Series Luca Parmitano observes the impact of the Amazon forest fires from the International Space Station These fires are deliberately started to clear space for the planting of crops. Sometimes this is done without realising we are possibly in the process of destroying mankind’s only chance of survival 13/09/2019