Basra: Qatar began preparations for their Group B s second fixture of the ongoing Gulf 25 tournament against Bahrain, set to be played on Tuesday at A.
Basra: Qatar began preparations for their Group B s second fixture of the ongoing Gulf 25 tournament against Bahrain, set to be played on Tuesday at A.
Two hours by boat from Belém, the state capital of Pará in Brazil, in the small village of Acará-Açu, wood houses rise on thin piles on the banks of the Acará River. This community has lived for decades on subsistence farming, mostly beans and manioc. Cacao was growing wildly in their gardens, but they didn’t […]
A Mongabay investigation into palm oil contamination in the Brazilian Amazon has helped federal prosecutors to obtain a court decision this week to scrutinize the environmental impacts of pesticides used by oil palm plantations on Indigenous communities and the environment in northern Pará state. On Oct. 4, the Federal Circuit Court for the First Region […]
In 1835, a rebellion broke out in the Lower Amazon region, in what was then the state of Grão-Pará, Brazil. The vast majority of the population was composed of Afro-Brazilians, caboclos (of mixed Indigenous and white ancestry), and Indigenous people. Relied on as a source of slave or cheap labor, they lived in the floodplains […]