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In Brazil there is a mission that is the result of collaboration between researchers and indigenous populations and which aims to protect Amazonian primates: this is the Reconecta Project, which was conceived by the biologist and winner of the 2024 Whitley Prize Fernanda Ambra and involves the construction of "bridges" aimed at connecting the crowns of the trees located on both sides of the road that runs through the states of Amazonas and Roraima, thus allowing the fauna local area to cross avoiding the risk of investment, which is in fact one of the main causes of death for primates in the region.Working on the project is «a wealth of knowledge and a wonderful learning experience» according to the biologist, who underlined the importance of involving traditional communities as «they know exactly what is needed to protect the forests». Brazil is facing an environmental dilemma that is anything but indifferent in that it has one of the largest road net...

In Brazil, the police launched a large operation (called Operation Greenwashing), the largest of its kind ever built in the country, to dismantle "a criminal organization" that for over a decade allegedly sold carbon credits from illegally invaded areas for a total value of 34 million dollars (approximately 180 million reais).The operations are the result of an investigation lasting over a year which shows the links between REDD+ projects and a scam for the recycling of illegally obtained timber.At the center of the investigations are the Fortaleza Ituxi, Unitor and Evergreen project, all related to the Ituxi Group, one of the largest carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon.The group is chaired by Ricardo Stoppe, whose suspicious activities had already ended up at the center of a journalistic investigation.The credits sold by the group were purchased not only by various Brazilian companies, but also by some international ones such as Toshiba, Spotify and Boeing. Stoppe...

Accepting the appeal advanced by the environmentalist associations Italia Nostra, Mountain Wilderness Italia and Lipu against a sentence pronounced by the Veneto Regional Administrative Court, the Council of State has restored the landscape restrictions on the Municipalities of Comelico and Auronzo (Belluno) placed in 2019 by a decree of the Ministry of the Environment.The administrative judges have therefore established that speculative projects cannot be started in a vast area of ​​the Dolomite Park, a UNESCO heritage site, which constitutes one of the most important portions of our country from a landscape point of view.In this way, the construction of ski lifts and a ski connection between Comelico and Pusteria which had previously obtained the green light was officially called into question. In 2022, the TAR had agreed with the municipalities of Auronzo, Comelico Superiore, Santo Stefano di Cadore, the Province of Belluno and the Veneto Region - supported by Confindust...

Seven wild horses have been reintroduced to the steppe of Kazakhstan, where they had been missing for at least two centuries.The specimens are Przewalski's horses, also called Mongolian wild horses or takhi.Four of them come from the Berlin Zoo, while three others from the Prague Zoo.According to the director of the zoo of the latter city, the reintroduction in question represents a "event of historical importance".Once they arrive at their destination, the equines will be kept for a year in an area where they can get used to coexistence with each other and to the new climatic and environmental conditions, all under the strict supervision of a group of experts.Subsequently, they will be released into the wild, where they will make a positive contribution in ecological terms, both for the fauna and flora of the steppe. Przewalski horses (in Kazakh known as Kertagy or Kerkulan) I am the last species of genetically wild horse left in the world.The species completely stopped exis...

Last Saturday, thousands of people poured into the streets of Saccargia, in the countryside of Codrongianus (Sassari), for a major mobilization against the speculative assault on renewable sources in Sardinia.The event, entitled "E-Vento di Saccargia", saw the presence of information gazebos of the committees and speeches on stage by their spokesmen and a series of experts, as well as musical moments from artists who wanted to give their contribution to the cause.The event follows a few days after the meeting held by the members of the coordination with the new president of the Region Alessandra Todde, following the approval of the Council's bill which blocked the installation of renewable plants for 18 months.According to the committees, even following the discussion, which took place in a serene atmosphere of dialogue, numerous «dark spots», in particular on the minimum ceiling of 6.2 GW of renewables assigned to Sardinia in the agreement with the Ministry and o...