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A very tight election victory, a divided country and an economy in tatters.
Broken Spectre, an immersive, 74-minute-long moving image work, is having its world premiere at the NGV.
Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. The results of the 2022 presidential runoff could have a major impact for the future.
There are telling parallels between the current pandemic and those that decimated indigenous populations in the post-Columbian era in the Amazon.
The Amazon’s largest dam is nearly complete. But the social and environmental costs of huge hydropower projects are just not worth it.
Three researchers studied the “crop raiders” of the Brazilian rainforest in the hope of aiding both local farmers and wildlife conservation.
Land animals were able to find refuge in the depths of the forest. But aquatic species weren’t so lucky.
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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Géographe, directeur de recherche au CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Professor of Tropical Conservation Ecology, University of East Anglia
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Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Society Brasil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
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Researcher in Indigenous Ethnology, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém
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Professor of Statistics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Lecturer, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond
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Research leader, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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PhD researcher in Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris)., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
