Liberal Amazon

After four years of disruption in the process of receiving international resources, the Amazon Fund is back and at the center of the global debate on responsible preservation and production. Now, the Brazilian Federal Government has announced the resumption of the transfer of resources and the expected expansion in the number of funding countries, currently restricted to Norway and Germany. The de...

Perfumes are not just scents. They are also memories and feelings that linger in the imagination of those who open their hearts to feel them. These are memories that are replicated on a large scale throughout Brazil, in a market that grew by 8.6% in the international trade flow, between January and October 2022, compared to the same period of the previous year.  However, the cosmetics market...

Have you ever thought of leaving behind the life you lead today and spending your time traveling, meeting different people and places?  In this week's Liberal Amazon you will meet people from their 20s and early 60s who, whether for leisure or business, do not give up traveling and talk about their adventures on the rivers, skies and roads of the region. Wherever they go, these travelers coll...

An Amazon native fruit, cupuaçu is known for its acidic, concentrated flavor, which gives rise to typical delicacies of the region such as juice, ice cream and sweets. But, in addition to the custom of the local population, there are several potentials yet to be explored - one of them is the cupulate, a product similar to traditional chocolate. Likewise the products made from cocoa, the cupulate c...

The Amazon is the Brazilian biome with the largest number of animal species, home to 73% of mammal species and 80% of bird species in the country, according to the Ministry of the Environment.  Due to the fact that many cities are surrounded by forests and rivers and the growth of these areas evolve disorderly, occasionally, wild animals end up invading the urban space, bringing risks both to...

The Brazilian maritime territory stretches over 8,000 km long of coastal extension and is known as the “Blue Amazon”, a name created by the Navy in order to emphasize the importance of this area in terms of biodiversity, size and economic role for the country. What many people are unaware of is that almost 38% of this total area is, in fact, within the Amazon: around 3,000 km. The coastline of the...

Whether by the river or the sea, patients need to overcome obstacles such as long distances, financial costs and difficult access to diagnosis and treatment in the region. In this week's Liberal Amazon article, you will learn the story of Edna Silva, 42 years old, who, despite having very sensitive skin to the sunlight and sand, has chosen to spend her life on Ilha dos Lençóis, in Maranhão (MA), w...

Hansen’s disease, currently, is considered rare in Brazil. Even so, the Amazon remains the region where most cases are registered: in 2021, cases within the region represented 41% of the country's sum, according to data from the Ministry of Health. According to World Health Organization, in 2020, out of more than 19,000 cases registered in the Americas circumscription, almost 94% were in Brazil. T...

The Amazon forest is the largest rainforest in the world, home to a rich biodiversity of fauna and flora. With such exuberance, it is not surprising that the region attracts people from different parts of the country to study and protect its biodiversity. In this week's Liberal Amazon article, you will learn about the stories of professionals who arrived, fell in love with and adjusted their lives...

When discussing the environment, the most frequent topics that emerge are combating deforestation and restoring forests. But there is a usually overlooked aspect which happened to be very vivid, this year, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 27): regenerative agriculture, which defends a way of producing whilst recovering the land and the environment. In regenerative agricultur...

From the Amazon rainforest to the desert, the 18-year-old indigenous woman Tainara Kambeba traveled four hours by boat and 2 and a half days including flights and stopovers to bring her experience and ideas about the environment from her home near Manaus (AM) to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Likewise, many young people took up the spaces and were protagonists in the discussions at the United Nations Con...

In the coming days, the eyes of the world will be on Brazil, especially turned towards the Amazon. Governors of the Interstate Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Legal Amazon will arrive in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to attend the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 27), accompanied by the president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. This is Lula's first international...

Amazon emerges solidly in the speeches of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, in his first address to the nation, after being elected the next president of Brazil, on October 30th. On several occasions, Lula referred to the Amazon as one of the priorities in his presidential term, stressing that “Brazil and the planet need a living Amazon”. After the presidential election outcome, leaders from different co...

Mosquitoes, bees and insects, in general, are part of the reality of those who live in the Amazon, even in urban centers. For some people, they can be considered a burden and, for many others, they can simply go unnoticed. However, insects play a key role in preserving biodiversity in the region, as they are responsible for spreading nutrients and seeds in the forest, allowing more plants to grow,...

Located in the southeast of the state of Pará, Parauapebas is a municipality that emerged and expanded based on mining activity. Parauapebas is where Serra Norte dos Carajás is located – the largest mineralogical province in the world. However, given the estimate that mineral resources will run out in approximately 16 years, the municipality has sought to develop an alternative economic matrix, fo...

On Sunday, October 9, Círio de Nazaré will fill up the streets of Belém, in Pará, in its 230th edition. It is the most expected of all Círios. It draws the attention of Brazil and of the World, gathering more than two million people going on a pilgrimage with so intense energy that it cannot be unnoticed even by people from other religions and cultures.  But, It is not by chance that Our Lady...

Sunday, October 2nd, is the day when more than 156 million Brazilians have, in their hands, the right to choose the politicians who will lead and decide the course of the country and the states of the federation from January 1, 2023 by means of a vote. According to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), 156,454,011 people are eligible to vote in this ballot, a number that is 6.21% higher compared wit...

Forest suffers from constant high temperatures, prolonged dry season and rampant fires. Situation worsens in the south of the Amazon region and threatens the entire ecological balance. In forest and cities it is increasingly difficult to breathe. Earlier this month, an article in the scientific publication Nature confirmed what Brazilian researchers have already been warning: the humidity of the A...

Internationally known, açaí is a fruit with rich nutritional values, such as vitamins, antioxidants, fats and proteins. Consumed as food both outside and inside Brazil, the plant extraction in the country is entirely concentrated on the açaí plantations within the Legal Amazon area, which totaled more than 220,000 tons in 2020, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statis...

In October 2022, Brazil will hold elections for the President of the Republic, governors, senators, as well as for federal and state parliamentarians. Since 1996, the electoral process has been computerized in Brazil, using electronic voting booths and satellites, among other equipment, for guaranteeing greater agility and transparency in the process, in addition, the result is disclosed in a few...

September 5th is officially Amazon Day. With a territorial extension almost eight times larger than France, Legal Amazon is always a challenge to those who travel through it. By land, most roads are in a precarious condition; by rivers and rails, the potential of these modes of transport is underused. Therefore, air transport is, in many cases, a solution for public authorities to reach isolated c...

Brazil uses only about 30% of its total waterway potential of approximately 64 thousand km, for economic purposes. It means to say, just over 19,000 km are used – 81% of which (15,500 km) corresponds the Amazon rivers hydric routes. The survey was carried out by National Transport Confederation (CNT), based on data from National Waterway Transport Agency (Antaq). For this potential to be better ex...

The North region, which concentrates seven of the nine states constituting the Amazon, has the worst road network in the country. Almost 80% of its roads are in regular, bad or extremely bad condition, according to the 2021 Road Survey, promoted by National Transport Confederation (CNT). This percentage alerts to a regional reality that brings several problems to the Amazonian development. Accordi...

As of January 1st, 2023, the president-elect of Brazil will be able to count on a condensation of the expectations of traditional peoples from the different countries where the Amazon territory spreads across. The president shall receive the Pan-Amazon Declaration of Belém, launched after the Pan-Amazon Social Forum, which brought together people from the nine Pan-Amazon countries (Brazil, Venezue...

DEFORESTATION Of the five Brazilian states which deforested the most along 2021, four of them are located in the Amazon: Pará, Amazonas, Mato Grosso and Maranhão. The region is responsible for the felling of about 18 trees per second and the states occupying the first and second positions in the rank of destruction are, respectively, Pará and Amazonas. These are data from the Annual Deforestation...