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     * What Has Been Done So Far?
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Amazon Aid Foundation welcomes visual artist Judit Prieto: Nature’s wonders drew
her in, just as her art draws audiences in to raise awareness about the
importance of saving what we have and changing our behaviors to do so. How did
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AMAZON AID FOUNDATION WELCOMES ARIA LUNA – ONE OF THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST
EXHIBITING ARTISTS WHOSE IMAGINATION AND TALENT BELIES HER AGE.

A vivacious, inquisitive creative force, Aria Luna has always been enthralled by
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sea turtles in Hawai’i, navigated the ancient rivers of Colombia with her
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Amazon Aid Foundation’s Artists for The Amazon program is excited to welcome
visual artist Nikhita Kalluri who advocates for the Amazon through activism and
art. How did you first become inspired by the Amazon? I first became inspired by
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transform the gold industry & protect the Amazon.

Join us for the third meeting of Amazon Aid’s Cleaner Gold Network, featuring
discussions with experts & artists that provide insight and the opportunity to
engage on issues & actions that can...

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& challenges of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Amazon with experts
from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Guyana.
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"We need to be at the place where supposed solutions are being discussed to the
planetary crisis." Indigenous Tribes are calling for a motion to protect 80% of
the #AmazonRainforest to be protected by 2025. We are at a tipping point and we
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initiative created by Indigenous people and allies to protect the Amazon. Sign
the declaration and show your support on this online day for the
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the world’s youngest exhibiting artists whose imagination and talent belies her
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life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the
ax-man who destroys it.”

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SUSAN WHEELER

THE GOLD CAMPAIGN ADVOCACY AND LIAISON ADVISOR

Susan Wheeler is a responsible jewelry advocate, she works to bring together
people across the global jewelry supply chain to participate equally within the
jewelry industry. As founder of The Responsible Jewelry Transformative, she
works on the mission of uniting and transforming the jewelry industry around
responsible practices so that it may help achieve the UN Sustainable Development
Goals. Susan works through education, initiatives and community. She brings to
the Clean Gold Campaign a passion for collaboration and outreach. Susan is also
a jewelry designer who uses her jewelry to highlight jewelry industry
initiatives and positive narratives from miners and laborers whose work,
community and environments are integral to her jewelry creation.

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CHARLIE ESPINOSA

Research and Writing Specialist

 

Charlie has worked extensively at the intersection of environmental and social
issues in Latin America. In conjunction with his position at Amazon Aid, he is a
Program Manager for the environmental health non-profit Pure Earth, where he
leads a project in the Peruvian Amazon helping artisanal gold miners reduce
mercury-use and restore degraded mining areas. Through this work, Charlie
traveled to Madre de Dios, Peru in February 2019 to assist with reforestation
and learn firsthand about the challenges and marvels of the Amazon Basin.



Charlie holds a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Columbia
University. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, hiking and playing soccer.
Born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, he is thrilled to be working at
the local and global level to protect the diversity of the Amazon.

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DR. LUIS FERNANDEZ

Executive Director Center for Amazonia Scientific Innovation

Luis E. Fernandez is the Executive Director of the Wake Forest University’s
Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA), a research initiative that
examines the impacts of artisanal gold mining, mercury contamination, and
deforestation on natural and human ecosystems in the Peruvian Amazon. Luis is
also a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and a Fellow at
Wake Forest University’s Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
(CEES). Trained as a tropical ecologist, Luis is an expert on the environmental
impacts of artisanal scale mining on tropical landscapes, particularly on the
effects of mercury contamination on wildlife and indigenous communities. Luis
has led research efforts to study and address mining-related mercury
contamination in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Madagascar. He has held
professional positions at Stanford University, Carnegie Institution for Science,
US Environmental Protection Agency, Argonne National Laboratory, and the
University of Michigan. His research and policy work has been profiled in
Nature, CNN, NPR, PBS Newshour, Washington Post, Mongabay, Le Monde, and the
Associated Press. Luis serves on the governing and advisory boards of the Amazon
Aid Foundation, Environmental Health Council, OroEco, and the UNEP PlanetGold
programme. In 2009, the USEPA awarded Luis the agency’s highest award, the EPA’s
Gold Medal for Outstanding Service, for his work on the dynamics of mercury in
the Amazon Basin.a research ecologist at the Carnegie Institution’s Department
of Global Ecology, and is the director of the Carnegie Amazon Mercury Project
(CAMEP), a multi-institution research initiative that examines the impacts of
artisanal gold mining, mercury contamination and deforestation on natural and
human ecosystems in the Peruvian Amazon. His research focuses on improving
understanding of the global mercury cycle, particularly emissions from the
artisanal gold mining sector, and its regional and global effects on forests,
ecosystems and human populations.

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MILES SILMAN

Dr. Silman is a Professor of Biology. His work centers on understanding
biodiversity distribution and the response of forests ecosystems to past and
future climate and land use changes.

His current projects also address Andean and Amazonian carbon cycles and
biodiversity controls for use in innovative, private- and public-sector,
ecosystem services projects that change land use by generating revenue for
conservation and creating economic and social value for local participants.

He has 20 years of experience in the Andes and Amazon and is coordinator and
founding member of the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group. Silman
has authored 56 papers and received 16 grants totaling $2.2M.

Dr Miles Silman’s association with the Amazon Aid Foundation runs deep. Miles
has been a constant supporter since its inception and has assisted the
organization with his expertise and knowledge of the Amazon. Mile’s was a
primary consultant for the documentary Amazon Gold and was critical for helping
promote and create our Acre Care donation platform.

Miles is an Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for
Energy, Environment, and Sustainability at Wake Forest University. “My primary
interests are community composition and dynamics of Andean and Amazonian tree
communities in both space and time. The lab’s current research focuses on
combining modern- and paleo-ecology to understand tree distributions and
plant-climate relationships in the Andes and Amazon. The work is focused on the
Peruvian and Bolivian Andes and the adjacent Amazonian plain, with a particular
emphasis in distributions along environmental gradients, be they in space or
time, and includes both empirical work and modeling.”

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TOM LOVEJOY

Thomas E. Lovejoy is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and
Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University.
Lovejoy, a tropical biologist and conservation biologist, has worked in the
Amazon of Brazil since 1965. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in biology from Yale
University.

From 1973 to 1987 he directed the conservation program at World Wildlife
Fund-U.S., and from 1987 to 1998 he served as Assistant Secretary for
Environmental and External Affairs for the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C., and in 1994 became Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity
and Environmental Affairs. From 1999 to 2002, he served as chief biodiversity
adviser to the President of the World Bank. In 2010 and 2011, he served as Chair
of the Independent Advisory Group on Sustainability for the Inter-American
Development Bank. He is Senior Adviser to the President of the United Nations
Foundation, chair of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, and is past
president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, past chairman of the
United States Man and Biosphere Program, and past president of the Society for
Conservation Biology.

Thomas Lovejoy developed the debt-for-nature swaps, in which environmental
groups purchase shaky foreign debt on the secondary market at the market rate,
which is considerably discounted, and then convert this debt at its face value
into the local currency to purchase biologically sensitive tracts of land in the
debtor nation for purposes of environmental protection. Critics of the
‘debt-for-nature’ schemes, such as National Center for Public Policy Research,
which distributes a wide variety of materials consistently justifying corporate
freedom and environmental deregulation, aver that plans deprive developing
nations of the extractable raw resources that are currently essential to further
economic development. Economic stagnation and local resentment of “Yankee
imperialism” can result, they warn. In reality, no debt-for-nature swap occurs
without the approval of the country in question.

Thomas Lovejoy has also supported the Forests Now Declaration, which calls for
new market-based mechanisms to protect tropical forests. Lovejoy played a
central role in the establishment of conservation biology, by initiating the
idea and planning with B. A. Wilcox in June 1978 for The First International
Conference on Research in Conservation Biology, that was held in La Jolla, in
September 1978. The proceedings, introduced conservation biology to the
scientific community. Lovejoy serves on many scientific and conservation boards
and advisory groups, is the author of numerous articles and books. As often
mis-associated, he is not the founder but served as an advisor in the early days
of the public television series NATURE, which he’s no longer part of the
creative team.

He has served in an official capacity in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and
Clinton administrations.

Lovejoy predicted in 1980 (see quote below), that 10–20 percent of all species
on earth would have gone extinct by the year 2020. In 2001, Lovejoy was the
recipient of the University of Southern California’s Tyler Prize for
Environmental Achievement. Thomas Lovejoy has been granted the 2008 BBVA
Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology
category (ex aequo with William F. Laurance). In 2004, a new wasp species that
acts as a parasite on butterfly larvae was discovered on the Pacific slope of
the Talamanca mountain range in Costa Rica by Ronald Zúñiga, a specialist in
bees, wasps and ants at the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio). INBio named
the species polycyrtus lovejoyi in honor of Thomas Lovejoy for his contributions
in the world of biodiversity and support for INBio.

On October 31, 2012, Dr. Thomas Lovejoy was awarded the Blue Planet Prize for
being “the first scientist to academically clarify how humans are causing
habitat fragmentation and pushing biological diversity towards crisis.” He has
served on the Board of Directors since 2009 for the Amazon Conservation
Association, whose mission is to conserve the biological diversity of the
Amazon. He is also on the Board of Directors for Population Action
International.

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JULIAN FREEMAN

Operations Coordinator

 

Julian Freeman is the operations coordinator for Amazon Aid Foundation and has
worked in the similar field for the last 3 years, most recently with the
Charlottesville based company CoConstruct. In her downtime she loves hiking,
mountain biking and playing with her two dogs.

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CHARLES LYONS

SENIOR PRODUCING AND WRITING CONSULTANT

Charles Lyons is a journalist, filmmaker, and professor. He’s written more than
a dozen articles for The New York Times, including about the Belo Monte dam in
the Amazon and about suicides among the Guarani in the southwest of Brazil. He’s
made short films on human rights and environmental issues for the United Nations
– in Brazil, Japan, and India; and produced a series on climate change for and
with PBS NewsHour. Prior to that, he wrote and produced for ABC News and was a
staff writer for Variety. Lyons, who holds a doctorate in theater and film
studies from Columbia University, is author of the book, The New Censors: Movies
and the Culture Wars. He’s taught film classes at Yale, Columbia, UCLA, and
Savannah School of Art & Design.

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BEN EPPARD

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Ben is a writer and designer with more than ten years experience in the
nonprofit sector. Ben holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of
Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He previously
served as Director of Communications for Madison House, the student volunteer
center at the University of Virginia.

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KATHLEEN RODGERS

Communications Strategy Consultant, “River of Gold”

Kathleen is an experienced Communications Strategist working in the human rights
sector across issues such as global health, international anti-genocide efforts,
poverty alleviation, women’s empowerment and education reform, among others.

She works with for profit and nonprofit organizations to design and execute
human rights and social impact campaigns aimed at alleviating human suffering
and uplifting the dignity of every human being. She develops social media
strategies, sets goals and builds campaign content plans in service of building
awareness about issues, mobilizing people toward advocacy, and arming them to
take action in support of these goals. She has worked on several film impact
campaigns including The Promise, Bending the Arc, The Heart of Nuba, Birthright:
A War Story, Cries from Syria, and Intent to Destroy.

She has a Master’s Degree in Communication Management from University of
Southern California and Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and World
Politics from Vanderbilt University.

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JESSIE NAGEL

Chief Strategist

 

Jessie Nagel is a communications specialist who brings decades of experience
along with a passion for the environment, sustainability, and the arts, to her
work as Chief Strategist with Amazon Aid Foundation. Nagel is the co-founder of
communications agency Hype,
which offers public relations, marketing, and social media services to creative
content providers in entertainment as well as select non-profit and independent
business clients.

As the Chair of the Care Committee for the Association of Independent Commercial
Producers (AICP), Nagel helped create the organization’s Sustainable Production
Guidelines. She also helped develop and launch Green The Bid, an initiative
aimed at shifting the
production industry to zero-waste, carbon neutral, sustainable and regenerative
practices, and is a founding member of the professional organization Women In
Animation. Nagel holds a B.A. in Film with a minor in Fine Arts and Anthropology
from San Francisco
State University.

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CHRISTINA T MILLER

Consulting Director
“The Gold Campaign”

 

Christina T Miller is a sustainable jewelry specialist who encourages leadership
in positive social change and environmental protection. First trained as an
artist, she brings creative problem solving to her work on gold supply chains,
jewelry, and community organizing for Amazon Aid Foundation. Miller is the
founder and lead consultant of Christina T. Miller Sustainable Jewelry
Consulting and provides strategy, guidance, and impact measurement services to
clients including jewelry brands and not-for-profits.

As co-founder and former director of Ethical Metalsmiths, Miller worked to
create a community of individuals committed to responsible materials sourcing by
raising awareness of problems needing attention and working to address them. In
2018 she co-launched Better Without Mercury / Mejor Sin Mercurio, a mercury
cleanup and site restoration project at the Gualconda gold mine in Colombia with
the mine manager, Rolberto Alvarez. Miller holds a MFA in jewelry and
metalsmithing from East Carolina University.

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BONNIE ABAUNZA

SOCIAL IMPACT CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR, “RIVER OF GOLD”

Bonnie Abaunza has dedicated her life to humanitarian work, human rights and
social justice advocacy. Through the Abaunza Group she works closely with
filmmakers, artists, production companies, distributors and non-governmental
organizations to develop and execute social impact campaigns for films and
documentaries. Bonnie’s work has addressed myriad human rights and civil rights
issues as she has brought hard-hitting campaigns and major celebrity engagement
to issues as diverse as child slavery, campus sexual assault, human trafficking,
genocide, environmental justice, girls education, food safety and animal rights.

Her campaigns have moved the needle on critical issues including genocide
awareness with the Hotel Rwanda campaign, conflict diamonds with Blood
Diamond, abuses by the food industry with Food, Inc., campus sexual assault
with The Hunting Ground, online sex trafficking with I Am Jane Doe, animal
rescue with Harry and Snowman, the plight of refugees with Cries From Syria and
girls’ education with The Breadwinner. Bonnie designed and executed the social
impact campaigns for the feature film The Promise by Oscar winner Terry George,
and the documentary Intent to Destroy, both about the Armenian genocide.
Presently, she is running the impact campaigns for The Heart of
Nuba, Birthright: A War Story, River of Gold about illicit and unregulated gold
mining in the Peruvian Amazon, and the upcoming documentary Cracked Up. She is a
consultant to National Women’s Law Center. She has worked on over 30 campaigns,
with 14 of the films being nominated for numerous awards, including Oscar and
Emmy Awards.

Bonnie spearheaded the campaign on Diane Warren and Lady Gaga’s song Til it
Happens to You from The Hunting Ground’s soundtrack. The song was nominated for
an Oscar and won an Emmy. Lady Gaga performed the song at the 2016 Oscars. The
music video has been viewed over 42 million times and has been embraced as the
anthem for the movement to end sexual assault on college campuses.

As a consultant for the United Nations agency, the International Labour
Organization, she assisted with outreach to the entertainment community. She
launched the ILO’s artist engagement program, Artworks
(http://www.iloartworks.org) and spearheaded their End Slavery Now , 50 for
Freedom, and Red Card to Child Labour campaigns.

From 2009-2014, Bonnie led the Special Projects & Philanthropy division for
Academy Award winning composer, Hans Zimmer. Her initiatives included raising
humanitarian aid for Haiti, Pakistan and Japan for International Medical Corps,
and working with Madeleine Albright and the National Democratic Institute to
advocate for the disenfranchised Romani people in Europe. She launched a
successful online advocacy effort with Elizabeth Warren for passage of the
Dodd-Frank Bill and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Prior to joining Hans Zimmer’s company in 2009, Bonnie served as Vice President,
Social Action and Advocacy at Participant Media, where she developed social
action campaigns to promote the documentaries and feature films produced by
Participant Media. From 2001 to 2007 she served as Director of the Artists for
Amnesty program for Amnesty International from 2001 to 2007, raising  Amnesty’s
profile in the entertainment industry and the visibility of human rights
campaigns with the public. She co-produced four film festivals, four Academy
Awards viewing parties to benefit Amnesty, produced quarterly entertainment
industry salons and more than 50 feature and documentary screening events,
fundraisers and art exhibits. She worked on numerous high profile campaigns
including human trafficking and slavery, ending rape as a tool of war,
rehabilitation of child soldiers, justice for the murdered women of Juarez,
ending small arms trafficking, protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, and
other global issues.

Artists for Amnesty ambassadors and supporters included: Salma Hayek, Jennifer
Lopez, Nicolas Cage, Halle Berry, Mira Sorvino, Patrick Stewart, Benicio del
Toro, Don Cheadle, Leonardo diCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Ryan
Gosling, Oliver Stone, Hans Zimmer, Paul Greengrass, America Ferrera, Charlize
Theron, Tom Morello, Gregory Nava, Patricia Arquette, Yoko Ono, Geoffrey Rush,
Phillip Noyce, Martin Sheen, Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson and others.

Her Artists for Amnesty events were covered by the New York Times, Chicago
Tribune, Washington Post, London Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, TIME,
People Magazine, US weekly, Variety, Billboard, Hollywood Reporter and
international publications and news networks.

Bonnie has received commendations for her human rights work from the United
States Congress and from the City of Los Angeles. She received the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the organization, Unlikely Heroes, Women in Leadership
Award from the City of West Hollywood, Global Champion Award from the
International Medical Corps., KCET’s Local Hero/Hispanic Heritage Award, and was
named Goodwill Ambassador to the Government of East Timor (appointed by
President and Nobel Peace Laureate, Jose Ramos-Horta). She is a Senior
Non-Resident Fellow for Enough Project, Board member of the ACLU Foundation of
Southern California, Chairman of the Advisory Board of thecommunity.com’s Human
Rights Campaign, Board member, Not On Our Watch and Board member of the
Mgrublian Human Rights Center.

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SARAH DUPONT

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT

Sarah duPont is an award-winning humanitarian, educator and filmmaker and is a
vocal advocate of ecological preservation. As the President and Founder of the
Amazon Aid Foundation, Sarah works with Neotropical scientists to study
Amazonian biodiversity with an eye toward educating the public and introducing
cutting-edge conservation practices and on the ground solutions to the region.
Sarah is a producer and co-director of the award winning film River of Gold and
the short documentary Mercury Uprising, both films about illicit and unregulated
gold mining in the Amazon Rainforest.  Her other film projects include producing
the award-winning Kids Against Malaria music video P.S.A., a transmedia program
to promote treatment and prevention for malaria in Africa and the Anthem for the
Amazon music video, a video with the voices of 500 children from around the
world singing to protect the Amazon.

Sarah has been engaged in educational innovation for 25 years, creating projects
both locally and globally. She works to build cross disciplinary curriculum that
support core subjects, including middle and high school STEAM curriculum built
around the documentary River of Gold.  In the fall of 2010, Sarah, along with
Gigi Hancock, wife of legendary jazz great, Herbie Hancock, co–founded CIAMO, an
arts and music school based in Benin, Africa. Sarah has had both past and
present board experience, serving on the following boards: University of
Virginia Children’s Medical Center, the University of Virginia Council for the
Arts, the Amazon Conservation Association, the Upton Foundation, Rachel’s
Network, the Wake Forest University’s Board of Visitors, the Berklee Global Jazz
Institute, and the D.C. Environmental Film Festival. She has been the recipient
of the Charlottesville Village Award, the Dorothy Corwin Spirit of Life Award,
the Global Syndicate Humanitarian Award, Worldwide Children’s Foundation of New
York’s Humanitarian Award, the Hawaii International Film Festival’s Humanitarian
Award, and the Pongo Award.

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   discussions with experts & artists that provide insight and the opportunity
   to engage on issues & actions that can help transform gold mining in the
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   2025” initiative created by Indigenous people and allies to protect the
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   vida: protejamos 80% al 2025” creada por pueblos indígenas sus aliados para
   proteger a la Amazonía. Forma la declaración y muestra solidaridad en este
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   We are thrilled to welcome Aria Luna to the #ArtistsfortheAmazon program! One
   of the world’s youngest exhibiting artists whose imagination and talent
   belies her age - Aria is a vivacious, inquisitive creative force. Her work is
   inspired by her love for nature and it evokes the rich, colorful world that
   children see, imbued with fantasy. Learn more about this incredible talent on
   our blog:
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   #scientists, and #entrepreneurs creating solutions for #ASGM. ✨ Explore the
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   Did you know that nearly 30% of Brazil's gold exports are illegal? According
   to experts, roughly 28% of gold exports in 2019 and 2020 most likely came
   from illegal mines causing destruction to indigenous lands. Read more at:
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   “The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that
   makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of
   its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even
   to the ax-man who destroys it.”
   
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   Every other Tuesday, we will call for #HaikusfortheAmazon. Anyone can submit
   their work! Haikus with the most likes get a shout-out on our socials.
   
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   teamed up to create an Artist Residency Program in Italy.
   
   Studio Verde aims to integrate Art and Ecology by including specialists in
   the field of botany, entomology and conservation. @studio_verde_air
   
   Studio Verde AIR will be running its first Art & Ecology program in September
   over a period of three weeks. The mission is to provide artists an
   environment where they can work on their own projects inspired by the land,
   while also being guided and taught by experts enabling the possibility to
   spark new ideas.
   
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   Hoje o STF adiou pela quarta vez, em dois meses, o julgamento que pode
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   Between August 2020 and July 2021, the rainforest lost 10,476 square
   kilometers resulting in the highest annual deforestation level in the
   Brazilian #AmazonRainforest.
   
   “Deforestation is still out of control,” Carlos Souza, a researcher
   @imazonoficial. “Brazil is going against the global climate agenda that is
   seeking to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
   
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