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Waste pickers are increasingly taking action to oppose policies that exclude them from their source of livelihood. Swampa (South African Waste Pickers Association)

March 1, 2020

How waste pickers in the global South are being sidelined by new policies

Federico Demaria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Marcos Todt, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS)

Waste, once freely available to the poor, is being appropriated for business purposes.

*Leopardus tigrinus* can be found in Eastern Amazonia or the dry semi-arid Caatinga. Project Wild Cats of Brazil

November 27, 2013

One becomes two: genes show Brazilian wild cat is two species

Shireen Chan, The Conversation

A new species of wild cat in central and north-eastern Brazil has been confirmed, according to a study published today in the journal Current Biology. This recognition formally separates the two known…

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Eduardo Eizirik
Professor, Department of Biodiversity and Ecology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS)
Marcos Todt
Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and PhD student in Social Sciences at PUCRS, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS)

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