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He said at least 20 kinds of wood are being used for aging and native Brazilian trees like jequitiba rosa which can imbue the drink with spicy notes like cinnamon And nearly all cachacas maintain a whiff of their sugar cane roots How far people in the United States have to go to enjoy the variety of cachaca becomes clear with a visit to the Academia da Cachaca where aged cachacas in the hundreds line the shelves and regulars carry a "cachaca notary" card that grants them special tasting privileges There are 100 choices on the annotated menu the years of aging and the kind of wood they were aged in But Brazilians may not have that much of a head start on cachaca appreciation Though cachaca has been around since the 1500s and only in the last decade or so have high-end brands became popular "Brazil is no longer the only country in the world embarrassed about its distilled liquor," the Brazilian edition of Playboy said last April (The other two brands imported by Berlic's Excalibur Enterprise made the list: GRM at No from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina cachaca straight up seems to be a hard-to-acquire taste even for some Brazilians with a view of the skyline so vast that it looks like Manhattan in a hall of mirrors they use GRM to make the most expensive caipirinha in the house but for those who shy away from tasting liquor straight up restaurants and stores that want to offer a range of cachacas for sipping have been stymied because they can't get what they want general manager of Churrascaria Plataforma said he snaps up every kind he can find in New York; he has found 30 cachaca can cost as little as $5 for a shot of Pitu Bottles range from about $12 for the industrial brands to $100 for the aged imports Beleza Pura is $24.99 a bottle and GRM 2-year is $69.99 When Titus Ribas opened the Cachaca Jazz Club last year in Greenwich Village he envisioned an epicurean cachaca shelf to show off the best of the artisanal cachacas from Minas Gerais state will keep trying to win people over to the taste of fine cachaca His family has been in the cachaca business since 1902 "I didn't like television or video games or toys," he said He started drinking cachaca when he was about 13; even when he was studying mechanical engineering in Rio de Janeiro He hopes to have an expanded business to pass on to a fifth generation "But I want to make him so proud of the brand that he continues producing what we've done here for 106 years." 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Dance Theatre presents a newly-choreographed performance of Pulse a composition by Brazilian musician Rafael Fortaleza The word ‘PULSE’ in English makes up a wordplay with Portuguese since in both languages it means the imperative tense of the verb Miami University Dance Theatre is well-known for showcasing innovative and diverse choreography that draws from the talents of guest artists a new work by Brazilian contemporary composer Rafael Fortaleza Yet Pulse also represents a remarkable journey of collaboration that arose from a shared interest in the works of living Brazilian composers—and a chance meeting with a Miami professor Born in Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) in 1989 Rafael Fortaleza is a PhD Music Composition student at Federal University of Paraná He had premiered several of his flute compositions His works and arrangements were played by Barra Mansa Symphony Orchestra He participated as composer and performer at Fiato al Brasile Festival (Italy and at Música Nova Festival “Gilberto Mendes” (Brazil) But he decided it was time to try something new Fortaleza began working on a composition for solo violin...an instrument that he could not play associate professor of music Harvey Thurmer has collaborated with contemporary Brazilian composers both as a member of the Oxford String Quartet and as a soloist These collaborations have resulted in invitations for the string faculty to present concerts in Brazil Thurmer was performing at a Brazilian music festival in 2018 Fortaleza presented him with the piece he had just written—the first he had ever composed for violin—to gain insight into a performer's perspective of the piece But after spending time looking at it closely and calculating exactly what would be required of the violinist studying the piece really stretched me and has caused me to grow as a violinist and musician So I decided to program it for a premiere back in Brazil in the summer of 2019 I wanted to conquer this thing,” he said Thurmer debuted Pulse at the "Fiato al Brasilie" Festival in Ribeirão Preto he repeated the piece in Oxford as part of a recital with Brazilian pianist Allan Manhas In attendance at that August recital was Lana Kay Rosenberg Rosenberg has had a close relationship with Brazil since receiving a Fulbright there in 1990 She has returned every year since in many different capacities—from working for the US government as an American Cultural Specialist to Brazil to five years as head of the dance program at the Festival Inverno the most prestigious arts festival in the country She also had a “pickup” dance company in Belo Horizonte for over 10 years that performed her work in the state of Minas Gerais and on television After the August recital she approached Thurmer about the possibility of choreographing Pulse with her students for a performance in November 2019 And that's how the 'unplayable' piece joined the eclectic repertoire of Dance Theatre 'Pulse' performers take a break during rehearsal Fresh off an October performance of Pulse in Berlin Thurmer is ready to perform live with Dance Theatre This will be the first time the piece will be heard on campus Thurmer's next solo performance of Pulse is in Faenza A Composition by Rafael FortalezaHarvey Thurmer Free for Miami Students at the Box Office (034 CAB) and at the door $10 Non-Miami students and seniors$12 General Admission in advance$15 at the door « Back Pacheco does not hesitate to connect the disaster to the larger issues facing the country. “No one in their right mind would claim that institutions are working,” he said. But he also balks at attempts to pin the fire on a single administration. “Everyone knows that the neglect had been there for decades,” he said. “In 1999, when I started my Ph.D., the museum already had this aura of decay, it was already full of termites. Ask people about the smell. It was a very peculiar smell.” On September 10th, the President of Brazil, Michel Temer, announced the creation of the Brazilian Agency for Museums, which he said would lead the reconstruction process. Depending on the poll, Temer’s approval rating stands somewhere between three and five per cent; the announcement is widely perceived as a halfhearted effort to save face. Rebuilding is unlikely to move forward soon. The investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing. Metrics details Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis is caused by the protozoan Leishmania infantum and is highly lethal in humans and dogs if left untreated The frequency of this parasite and associated histological changes in the pancreas of dogs are poorly studied the objectives of this study were to evaluate the frequency of detection and load of amastigotes in the pancreas of L infantum-seropositive dogs and to identify the clinical signs and histological changes associated with parasitism of this organ One hundred forty-three dogs from an endemic area in Brazil that tested seropositive for L One fragment of the pancreas was randomly collected for histopathology and immunohistochemistry and spleen and bone marrow were collected for culture Leishmania amastigotes were detected in the pancreas of 22 dogs (15.4%) by immunohistochemistry infantum parasitism in the spleen and/or bone marrow Poor body condition and cachexia were only associated with infection of the pancreas with Leishmania spp (p = 0.021) and were found in 40.9% of dogs with pancreatic infection and/or diarrhea were observed in 9.2% of dogs with pancreatitis The median parasite load in the pancreas was 1.4 infected macrophages/mm2 Pancreatic histological changes and their frequencies were: granulomatous pancreatitis (28.0%) infantum is one of the etiological agents of chronic pancreatitis in dogs; however the frequency of detection and parasite load are low in this organ The lack of an association of poor body condition and cachexia with pancreatitis and the low frequency of clinical signs commonly associated with pancreatitis suggest that a significant portion of the organ is not affected by this parasite the association of poor body condition and cachexia with concomitant infection of the pancreas and/or bone marrow with this parasite suggests that these manifestations are the result of a more advanced stage of canine visceral leishmaniasis infantum in dogs and the associated clinical signs and histological changes is important for a better understanding of the pathogenesis of this parasitosis as well as to provide information for future studies on adverse effects associated with anti-Leishmania drugs used for the treatment of ZVL the aims of this study were to assess the frequency of detection and load of amastigotes in the pancreas of L infantum-seropositive dogs and to identify the clinical signs and histological changes associated with the parasite in this organ they were sent by the Municipal Health Department of Barra Mansa to be killed at the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI-Fiocruz) which are commonly associated with pancreatitis in dogs were obtained from the medical records of the Municipal Health Department of Barra Mansa fragments of spleen and bone marrow were collected aseptically and immersed in sterile saline solution containing antimicrobials for parasitological culture Three serial 5-µm histological sections were cut from paraffin blocks containing pancreatic tissue samples stored at the Pathological Anatomy Service of the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases Two sections were mounted on non-silanized slides for histopathology and one section was mounted on silanized slides for IHC For evaluation of the intensity of inflammation and neutrophils) detected in the inflammatory infiltrate were analyzed semi-quantitatively under a light microscope using a 1-mm2 optical grid and a manual cell counter The number of cells was determined in one microscopic field at 400 × magnification in the most cellular area of the histological section The median number of cells was calculated for the entire inflammatory infiltrate (sum of all cell types found) The intensity of the inflammatory infiltrate was classified as absent moderate (> 250 and ≤ 450 inflammatory cells/mm2) and severe (> 450 inflammatory cells/mm2) The polymer-based HiDef Detection HRP™ Polymer System (Cell Marque USA) was used for the detection of Leishmania amastigote forms according to manufacturer's recommendations Histological sections of organs intensely parasitized with Leishmania amastigotes were incubated with non-immune homologous serum as negative control and with polyclonal rabbit anti-Leishmania serum as positive control For the evaluation of parasite load in the pancreas by IHC macrophages parasitized with Leishmania amastigote forms were quantified as described for the quantification of inflammatory cells by histopathology cells were counted in five fields at 400 × magnification in the most parasitized areas of the sections The average number of parasitized macrophages was calculated and the parasite load was classified as absent low (0.2 to 10 parasitized macrophages/mm2) and moderate to intense (> 10 parasitized macrophages/mm2) the relative frequencies of the categorical variables were calculated medians and their interquartile range were used The normality of the quantitative variables was rejected by the Shapiro-Wilk test Pearson’s chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test in the case of expected counts < 5 or 2 × 2 tables were used to compare the occurrence of clinical signs of poor body condition and cachexia and the different histological changes as well as to associate the frequencies of histological changes with the results of IHC for the diagnosis of Leishmania spp The Mann-Whitney test was used to compare the intensity of the inflammatory infiltrate (for all cells) between Leishmania spp.-positive and -negative pancreas Spearman’s correlation test was applied to verify the correlation between parasite load and the intensity of the inflammatory infiltrate in the pancreas where values close to + 1 indicate a positive correlation Histological changes in the pancreas of dogs seropositive for anti-L a Vacuolar and diffuse acinar cell degeneration (arrow and inset) b Diffuse fibrosis in the parenchyma (asterisks and inset) c Extensive hemorrhagic area (asterisks) with hemosiderin (arrow) in the parenchyma d Discrete focus of necrosis in the parenchyma (asterisk and inset) Amastigote forms of Leishmania spp. were detected by IHC in the pancreas of 22 dogs (15.4%) (Fig. 3). All six cases that tested positive for Leishmania spp. amastigote forms by histopathology were also positive by IHC, which detected an additional 16 cases. Pancreas of a dog seropositive for anti-Leishmania infantum antibodies with mild granulomatous inflammation amastigotes in the cytoplasm of macrophages (arrow) in the interstitial tissue Table 3 shows the dog breed and age according to the result of IHC for the diagnosis of Leishmania spp The four dog breeds that tested positive by IHC included two Labrador Retrievers 61 were mongrels (32 with granulomatous pancreatitis 4 were Labrador Retrievers (3 with granulomatous pancreatitis and 1 with lymphoplasmacytic pancreatitis) 3 were Pinschers (3 with granulomatous pancreatitis) 2 were American Pitbull Terriers (2 with granulomatous pancreatitis) 2 were Cocker Spaniels (1 with granulomatous pancreatitis and 1 with lymphoplasmacytic pancreatitis) 1 was a Rottweiler (with granulomatous pancreatitis) 1 was a German Shepherd (with granulomatous pancreatitis) 1 was a Canadian Shepherd (with granulomatous pancreatitis) and 1 was a Dachshund (with granulomatous pancreatitis) The frequencies of pancreatitis according to age were: 5 of 9 (55.6%) dogs up to 12 months old 50 of 102 (49.0%) dogs between 1 and 7 years old and 21 of 32 (65.6%) dogs older than 7 years There was no statistically significant association of breed or sex with the presence or absence of histological changes in the examined pancreas there were two cases of hemorrhage associated with a mild inflammatory infiltrate and one case of degeneration of acinar cells associated with a moderate inflammatory infiltrate The frequency of pancreatitis (granulomatous or suppurative) was 53.3% in dogs with poor body condition or cachexia and 53.1% in dogs without these clinical signs There was no statistically significant association between pancreatitis and poor body condition or cachexia (p = 1.000) Seven (9.2%) of the 76 dogs with pancreatitis had anorexia two had mild granulomatous pancreatitis and five had mild (n = 3) or severe (n = 2) lymphoplasmacytic pancreatitis Pancreatitis was not significantly associated with anorexia The median number of inflammatory cells/mm2 was 175.0 (46 to 807) in dogs with pancreatitis (n = 76) In dogs whose pancreas was positive for Leishmania spp amastigotes by IHC and that simultaneously had pancreatitis (n = 20) the median number of inflammatory cells/mm2 was 167.5 (89 to 375) This number was 172 inflammatory cells/mm2 (46 to 807) in dogs with pancreatitis and negative for amastigote forms of Leishmania spp There was no statistically significant difference in the intensity of the inflammatory infiltrate between dogs with pancreatitis that tested positive and negative for Leishmania spp amastigotes detected by IHC in the pancreas was classified as low with a median number of 1.4 (0.4 to 7.2) infected macrophages/mm2 The median parasite load was 2.0 (0.4 to 7.2) and 0.6 (0.4 to 7.0) infected macrophages/mm2 in dogs with and without clinical signs the median parasite load was 3.8 (0.6 to 7.2) infected macrophages/mm2 in those with clinical signs of poor body condition or cachexia (n = 9) and 0.6 (0.6 to 7.0) infected macrophages/mm2 in those without these clinical signs (n = 13) (p = 0.272) infantum in spleen and/or bone marrow by culture The spleen and bone marrow were positive in 79 (68.7%) dogs All 22 animals whose pancreas was positive for Leishmania sp amastigote forms by IHC tested positive for L infantum in the spleen and/or bone marrow by culture Four (18.1%) of these 22 dogs tested positive by culture in the spleen and 18 (81.9%) in the spleen and bone marrow Of the 121 dogs whose pancreas was negative for Leishmania spp infantum culture positivity in spleen and/or bone marrow showed a difference of 30.9 percentage points between the group of 30 dogs with poor body condition or cachexia and the group of 113 dogs without these clinical signs (96.6% and 65.7% although the test indicated no statistical significance (p = 0.441) Further studies using molecular techniques are needed to confirm this hypothesis Although the difference in pancreatic infection with Leishmania spp between males and females was statistically significant the small number of dogs with pancreatic infection may have influenced the result future studies involving a larger sample of dogs with a positive pancreas are necessary to confirm that males have a greater predisposition to pancreatic infection with L infantum is one of the etiological agents of chronic pancreatitis in dogs which is associated with a mild to moderate predominantly granulomatous inflammatory infiltrate The frequency of detection and load of this parasite are low in the pancreas The lack of an association of poor body condition and cachexia with pancreatitis and the low frequency of clinical signs commonly associated with pancreatitis suggest that a significant portion of the pancreas is not affected by this parasite This result and the association of poor body condition and cachexia with a higher frequency of the parasite in the pancreas infantum parasitism in the spleen 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Adilson Benedito de Almeida Shanna Araújo dos Santos and Antonio Carlos da Silva from INI and Ricardo Baptista Schmidt from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC) We are grateful for support from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) This study was supported by the state funding agency Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Grant: CNE E-26/203.069/2016 and TCT E-26/202.561/2017) and by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and RCM are recipients of productivity fellowships from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Dermatozoonoses em Animais Domésticos Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas Artur Augusto Velho Mendes Junior & Rodrigo Caldas Menezes Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica e Vigilância em Leishmanioses Maria de Fátima Madeira & Luciana de Freitas Campos Miranda Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira All authors read and approved the final manuscript This study was carried out in strict accordance with the recommendations of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Federal Council on Veterinary Medicine The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee on Animal Use of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (CEUA/FIOCRUZ; Permit Numbers: LW-038/08 and LW-54/13) The authors declare that they have no competing interest Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04813-3 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Greenpeace report shows cattle indirectly sold to JBS Marfrig and Minerva came from protected Serro Ricardo Franco park Read more“This is how meat packers continue contributing to the destruction of the Amazon,” said Cristiane Mazzetti a Greenpeace campaigner who co-authored the report  Serra Ricardo Franco  was created by the state of Mato Grosso in 1997 “This is a region with great riches in terms of biodiversity that should be protected,” Mazzetti said But the state never properly implemented the park and has no management plan for it in place “There was no effective protection and this allowed invasion and deforestation,” said Samuel Costa prosecutors began legal actions to force the state to protect the park The Greenpeace report cites three farms in Sierra Ricardo Franco – Paredão I Paredão II and Cachoeira – that prosecutors say were cleared after the park was created Thousands of hectares were illegally deforested The Cachoeira and Paredão farms are co-owned by Marcos Tozzatti and a company he controls Cachoeira and one of the Paredão farms are also part-owned by a company where Eliseu Padilha – a former cabinet minister – is a partner Tozzatti has been charged with environmental crimes including clearing hundreds of hectares of forest on Paredão After being ordered to cease agricultural activity He and other farmers inside the park have challenged its protected status and have won a court ruling allowing them to continue operations until a final decision is taken – but prosecutors are appealing the ruling any deforestation inside the area is illegal,” Costa said The lawyer representing Tozzatti and Padilha did not respond to emailed questions Greenpeace found that the Paredão farms sent 4,000 cattle to the Barra Mansa farm outside the park Minerva and Marfrig plants near the park bought thousands of head of cattle from the Barra Mansa farm The JBS and Minerva plants exported nearly 50,000 tons of beef products some of which went to European countries including the UK Marfrig exported around 5,000 tons to countries including Hong Kong and Egypt The companies said they have invested heavily in independently audited monitoring systems and are working to control indirect suppliers “JBS takes a zero-tolerance approach to deforestation in its supply chain,” JBS said The company said Barra Mansa was JBS-compliant for the period cited in the report JBS will bring in a new “theoretical index” which uses a farm’s productivity to calculate if it is suspected of cattle laundering and now checks supplier farms against areas embargoed by Brazil’s federal environment agency “These innovations are expected to make a significant impact in reducing cases of cattle laundering across the beef industry,” it said Marfrig said that the Barra Mansa farm was a registered supplier and that from July 2018 to July 2019 its plant had slaughtered 180 cattle Tozzatti supplied “Marfrig is aware there is a challenge to be faced in obtaining information on these indirect suppliers,” it said in a statement highlighting its RFI (request for information) system under which farmers supply information on their suppliers Last year Marfrig said 53%  of its Amazon cattle came from indirect suppliers Minerva said its Amazon cattle purchases were “100 percent made in monitored farms” but that it was not possible to fully track Amazon cattle movements without full access to government data which it does not have A Minerva spokeswoman said the company did not know how much of its Amazon cattle came via indirect suppliers The company said the Paredão farm has been blocked since 2018 but that Barra Mansa is a registered supplier “We will investigate the facts with the legally available data,” it said 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region. Analysis, reports, news and interviews about your industry in English, Spanish and Portuguese. biodiesel and soap industry.The Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) has announced an allowance for animal meal imports from Brazil The announcement is the result of negotiations between the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Supply and Russia’s sanitary authority and According to the Brazilian Association of Animal Recycling (Abra) this first list is a unilateral choice of the Russian authorities and the entity continues to work with the Brazilian government to increase the number of qualified companies as quickly as possible The negotiations had begun in November last year when the Eurasian Union accepted the Brazilian proposal of certificate model for the export of flour and fats of animal origin becomes part of the Russian market open to Brazil This announcement crowns all the sector’s efforts for the development of a national industry,” celebrates Abra on its website The enable plants are 5 Seara’s unities Frigorífico Floresta and JBS Aves over the states of Rio Grande do Sul The Brazilian animal recycling sector has relevant numbers in domestic and foreign markets Based on reverse logistics of the slaughtering industry and retail establishments these companies produced 5.7 million tonnes of animal fats and meals in 2020 the bovine segment accounted for 3.4 million tonnes: poultry by-products represented 1.8 million tonnes Animal by-products are the parts of the slaughtered animals that are not used for human consumption either for reasons related to the population’s eating or cultural habits or classified as unfit for human consumption by the official inspection system these raw materials supplied the animal feed sector (55.5%) the soap industry (13.7%) and other sectors (4.5%) in 2020 The sector also exports to more than 40 countries worldwide Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker home to one in 10 of all the plant and animal species in the world Yet trips to the Amazon can be frustrating since the animals there are hard to encounter disappearing into the jungle as soon as they hear you approach By far the best place to see wildlife in Brazil is the Pantanal a flat wetland area near the Bolivian border where the animals will often parade in front of you as if auditioning for a nature documentary the daily commute of birds is a chirping carnival of colour I saw hundreds flutter past – red and blue macaws in pairs flotillas of ibis gliding in elegant V-formation and often described as the biggest swamp in the world In the centre of the South American continent it is a flat basin that drains water (and attracts fauna) from the surrounding plateaus For more than 100 years the only human activity has been low-level cattle ranching is so uncompetitive because of the constantly shifting landscapes that in recent years many ranches have reopened as tourist lodges A week before I arrived I learned that floods had made land access to my hotel impossible and the only option was to charter a single-engine plane for the half-hour hop It was certainly the most exciting way to arrive The expense of visiting the Pantanal has meant that it remains underpopulated compared with other destinations in Brazil is determined to attract international tourists which is one reason why the city of Cuiabá was chosen as a host city for the 2014 World Cup It's seen as an opportunity to promote the local wildlife to a TV audience of billions who in 1913 led a scientific expedition to the Amazon with Theodore Roosevelt "Our family has always been radically in favour of conservation," Rondon said Barra Mansa is situated on a bend in the Rio Negro (not to be confused with the much larger Rio Negro that flows into the Amazon) The flood was so big that it came within a few metres of the lodge The eyes of two submerged caimans – South American alligators – could be seen protruding above the surface at the edge of the water I had been lured to the Pantanal on the premise of seeing a lot of wildlife it is possible to see huge groups of animals congregating by the isolated sources of water jaguars – had been pushed deeper into the bush because what I had lost in fauna I had gained in flora The floods are the most spectacular time of the year to visit the view from Barra Mansa was as beautiful as any that I have seen in Brazil the shiny black water of the Rio Negro pristinely reflecting the lush vegetation surrounding it "Visitors who see the animals always say they want to return to see the floods," Rondon told me there were animals to be seen – and the best way to explore was on horse Early cattle ranchers introduced the Andalusian horse to the Pantanal which over generations has become a new breed We took a short ride through small areas of forest to reach clearings containing huge circular ponds He stopped on the sandy path to show us all evidence of the animals that were around anteaters and even the paw-print of a jaguar The jaguar – the largest cat of the Americas – is something of a symbol of the Pantanal although only the luckiest tourists ever spot one was in looking up rather than looking down – especially at the end of the day The best vantage point to observe the birds' passage was in a small boat in the middle of the Rio Negro we were even joined by a pair of giant otters I was unlucky that there had been unexpected floods shortly before I arrived at Barra Mansa I saw more wildlife in a few days in the Pantanal than I have ever seen anywhere else in Brazil The Pantanal is served by the airports of either Cuiabá or Campo Grande, both of which can be reached from London via São Paulo with TAM Airlines from around £1,000 return Transfers to Pantanal lodges via land cost around £300 and by single engine plane around £1000, and are organised by travel agencies such as Original Travel The Barra Mansa Lodge costs from £125 per person per night including all meals and excursions This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media One of the most successful ways to protect forests and biodiversity is the creation of conservation areas and Indigenous Lands the Brazilian government has put a halt to new Indigenous land demarcations and is systematically dismantling its protection systems resulting in skyrocketing deforestation rates in a mad rush for the illegal destruction of the forest loggers and cattle ranchers have been taking advantage of the government’s anti-environmental agenda to advance over huge areas of forest in the State of Mato Grosso shows how a forest that should have been protected has partially been replaced by pasture and the fauna has been replaced by cattle Serra Ricardo Franco State Park was created in 1997 It covers 158 thousand hectares in the border of Brazil and Bolivia a region where 3 biomes meet: the Cerrado savanna the Pantanal wetlands and the Amazon rainforest where different vegetation and animal species interact home to unique biodiversity and still little known by science.  In the region, for instance, 472 bird species were identified, approximately a quarter of all bird species found in Brazil. One of them is the caboclinho-do-sertão, which is listed as vulnerableby theInternational Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Endangered mammals like the giant otter and the tamanduá-bandeira Despite all its importance for biodiversity the protection of the park was never fully enforced by the government of the state and its forests and animals suffer from deforestation for pastures More than 38 thousand hectares of the area that should be under full protection have been deforested of which almost a third occurred after the creation of the Park 24% of the park’s area is deforested.  71% of its entire length has been claimed by farmers through the Rural Land Registry According to a study by Greenpeace Brazil of which  at least half was illegally deforested the State Prosecutor’s Office of Mato Grosso requested the embargo of economic activities on farms within the park that were accused of illegal deforestation It also requested to block the assets of the owners as a way of guaranteeing the necessary resources for the recovery of the land and the strong political pressure exerted by local farmers and politicians has delayed important measures to enforce the protection of the park.  it was found that the Paredão l and ll farms were highly deforested after the park was created these farms show an extensive presence of cattle In a study by Greenpeace Brazil and Repórter Brasil it was possible to verify that the Paredão farms sold at least 4,000 cows to another farm called Barra Mansa Barra Mansa, then, supplied to main slaughterhouses in Brazil, such as JBS, Minerva and Marfrig if the slaughterhouses are not monitoring indirect suppliers and cattle laundering they are contaminating their supply chains with animals that graze within protected areas Dinner plates around the world are being served with meat and a side of deforestation Marfrig and Minerva received cattle from the Barra Mansa farm and sent the meat to several continents – including Spain consuming the region and putting at risk unique species Marfrig and Minerva signed a Term of Conduct with the Brazilian government to undertake the development of monitoring systems in order to exclude from their supplier lists the farms that continued to deforest used slave labor or had invaded Indigenous Lands and other protected areas Minerva and Marfrig committed to implementing the systems by 2011 The reality is that no slaughterhouse or supermarket selling meat products from the Amazon can guarantee they are free of deforestation and other illegal activities such as the invasion of protected areas and conflicts over land What happens in the Ricardo Franco Park is not an isolated case but a picture of a situation that is repeated in many other places in the Amazon feed this predatory and illegal relationship with the forest putting the Amazon and its rich biodiversity at risk.  The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how our current relationship with nature is putting our lives at risk. The advance of deforestation represents an enormous risk for all biodiversity, including for us humans. From all zoonotic diseases that broke out since the 1940s, almost a third are related to the change in land use the higher the risk of new diseases appearing Despite scientists urging for an immediate halt to deforestation in order to reverse the planetary health and climate crises we are in the Brazilian government is shamelessly using the pandemic to advance its destructive agenda It is long overdue that companies fully remove forest destroyers from their supply chains and that governments work to enforce environmental laws and urgently speed up the protection of nature which is essential for planetary health Cristiane Mazzetti is an Amazon Campaigner for Greenpeace Brazil Greenpeace Aotearoa says a new investigation revealing that the world’s largest meat company will fail to meet its deforestation-free commitment is yet more proof of false promises from the… Greenpeace Taranaki protest against Anchor Butter palm kernel connection continues despite police intervention Palm kernel expeller or PKE is a rainforest-destroying animal feed that’s fed to dairy cows when there is not enough grass to feed them Greenpeace is campaigning for Fonterra to… View the discussion thread. Supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro block the Castello Branco highway during a protest over Bolsonaro's defeat in the presidential run-off election Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian police on Tuesday fired teargas at protesters who blocked major highways for a second day over the election loss of President Jair Bolsonaro Thirty-six hours after official results showed he had lost Sunday's presidential run-off with only 1.8 percentage points fanning concerns he may try and challenge the result after months of attacking the electoral system as fraudulent police fired teargas to break up a protest The executive director of the Federal Highway Police (PRF) told a press conference in the capital Brasilia that there were 267 road blockages underway across the country and that 306 had already been dispersed since Sunday involving more than 75,000 kilometres (46,500 miles) of federal highways," he said Protesters wearing the yellow and green of the Brazilian flag which the outgoing president has adopted as his own expressed unhappiness with the outcome of the election "We will not accept losing what we have gained 'order and progress.' We will not accept the situation as it is," Antoniel Almeida protester Jeremias Costa said he was "waiting anxiously" for Bolsonaro to appear "for Brazil Judge Alexander de Moraes of the Supreme Court ordered police to disperse the blockades immediately He was acting in response to a request by a transport federation that complained it was losing business The mounting tension follows a dirty and divisive election campaign between the hardline conservative Bolsonaro and his nemesis Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who returns to office in a dramatic comeback Brazil's president between 2003 and 2010 Lula crashed into disgrace in a corruption scandal that landed him in jail before his conviction was thrown out due to bias from the lead judge The election outcome showed just how polarized the country is between the two very different leaders Lula scored 50.9 percent to Bolsonaro's 49.1 percent -- the narrowest margin in Brazil's modern history meeting Argentine President Alberto Fernandez in Sao Paulo and holding a series of phone calls with US President Joe Biden UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and others Bolsonaro's silence after months of alleging fraud in the electoral system and a conspiracy against him had the country on a knife edge the defeated president would have called me to recognize his defeat," Lula said in his victory speech to a euphoric sea of red-clad supporters in Sao Paulo on Sunday night could attempt a Brazilian version of the US Capitol riots which rocked that country after his political role model refused to accept his election defeat in 2020 But the Brazilian leader may find himself isolated Some key Bolsonaro allies have publicly recognized his loss including the powerful speaker of the lower house of Congress And international congratulations for Lula poured in from the United States Lula acknowledged the "immense" challenges facing his government when he is sworn in on January 1 bitter political division and deforestation in the Amazon He is likely to face a hostile Congress packed with allies of Bolsonaro "Lula will have to show a lot of political skill to pacify the country," said political scientist Leandro Consentino of Insper university in Sao Paulo Bolsonaro became the first incumbent president in Brazil not to win re-election in the post-dictatorship era after a four-year term in which he came under fire for his disastrous handling of the Covid-19 pandemic which left more than 680,000 dead in Brazil He also drew criticism for his vitriolic comments polarizing style and attacks on democratic institutions and foreign allies Lula's victory has been hailed by environmentalists and governments hoping he will make halting Amazon destruction a key priority Sie haben erfolgreich Ihre Einwilligung in die Nutzung von Transfermarkt mit Tracking und Cookies widerrufen Sie können sich jetzt zwischen dem Contentpass-Abo und der Nutzung mit personalisierter Werbung Aggiornamento Numerazioni Maglie Primavera 1 2024/2025 Inter col Cagliari per mantenere la vetta IL CAGLIARI PRESENTA LA MAGLIA SPECIALE “HERITAGE” Copyright © 2024 Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie A | P when Ilda Vitor Maciel of Rio de Janeiro was hospitalized she was paralyzed by a stroke on the left side of her body before the injection Maciel's stroke symptoms had been improving an alarming number of deaths are caused by medical malpractice in Brazil firm numbers on exactly how many patients die are hard to come by because there's no centralized governing body to track them Because of the uncertainty and recent medical error Santa Casa de Barra Mansa hostpital ordered a autopsy "Due to the misunderstanding and the doubt that remained The conversation with the relatives started from Santa Casa so that the body could be taken to the IML to perform the necropsy The hospital's own ombudsman opened an internal process pulmonary embolisms are sometimes (though rarely) caused by blockages from a tumor or by bone marrow fat from a broken long bone like from a broken femur HOMEBIZARRE9 of the Weirdest Deaths of All TimeThe Grim Reaper has a sense of humor While the dream for most is to expire from old age surrounded by everyone they know and love The leading cause of death in the United States is heart disease there are more than 42,000 motor vehicle deaths reported each year in America But there are some things way less dignified than a graceful exit via illness or collision. While freak accidents can seem like the fodder of urban legends here are nine of the weirdest deaths of all time Someone Died in Here: Realtor Stories of Death Disclosures In the Brazilian hospital of Santa Casa de Barra Mansa Maciel was admitted to the hospital after a stroke a nursing technician made a fatal mistake: instead of injecting soup into the woman's feeding tube While the hospital acknowledges the unfortunate soup incident took place that deny that it was the cause of her death considering a pulmonary embolism is a blocked artery in the lungs soup in the blood seems like a pretty good suspect… On October 20, 2007, Delhi deputy mayor Surinder Singh Bajwa died after a horrific attack. The assailants were, of course, monkeys. But as everyone knows monkeys—as all wild animals—can be incredibly dangerous As hordes of Rhesus macaques have invaded the city as their natural habitat is destroyed by urban development they have taken over government buildings and temples these monkeys found Bajwa at his home that fateful day it was the tumble he took off the balcony during the scuffle that killed him and the city ordered a solution be found to the monkey plague one of the measures taken was to train more vicious monkeys 19th-century Parliament member Sir William Payne-Gallwey had a passionate love for hunting He was apparently a top-notch sharpshooter He'd been the captain of his university's rifle team and it's said he could hit a bullseye with his eyes closed he didn't have that same mastery of his surroundings Gallwey was out hunting in the parish of Bagby He and his companions were crossing through a turnip field when one of these wily root vegetables tripped Gallwey He fell down on the hefty harvest and sustained an internal injury that would kill him within a few days Sign up for The Lineup's newsletter to get terrifying recommendations delivered straight to your inbox 38-year-old Toronto lawyer Garry Hoy had an inexplicable habit of boasting about the strength of office building windows Maybe he liked laughing in the face of danger Or maybe he just needed something to believe in one of Hoy's exuberant window demonstrations went awry Hoy was showing off for a group of visiting law students As he commonly did when the mood struck him he hurled his body at the window to prove it wouldn't shatter this is the point at which he would bounce right off While Hoy was ultimately right—the window pane itself maintained its integrity—he fell through the open frame and plunged 24 stories to his death 9 Engrossing Books About the Science of Death Isadora Duncan is known by many as the “Mother of Modern Dance.” Beyond her incredible talent Duncan also liked to make fashion statements These iconic accessories brought the drama But they also brought about her untimely death It was a beautiful car (an Amilcar CGSS) and a beautiful day in Nice and Duncan had a beautiful scarf to match: a hand-painted silk by Russian-born artist Roman Chatov As Falchetto sped off in his open-roof vehicle the wind kicked up Duncan's extraordinary scarf The fabric wrapped around one of the tires She was dragged a few yards before her friend noticed the accident The Heartbreakingly Lonesome Death of John Edward Jones You ever hear the saying “Too much of a good thing" the city of Boston understands the meaning all too well Known as the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 an unseasonably warm day saw a tank of molasses burst open That may not sound all that alarming at face value but consider the fact that the tank was five stories high and contained roughly 7.5 million liters of molasses syrupy liquid poured through the streets of Boston in a wave 25 feet high moving at 35 miles per hour and a train was almost pulled off the tracks The chest-deep river of molasses claimed 21 lives that day About half of these victims were crushed or drowned The rest died in the aftermath from infections or other complications This incident made the London Beer Flood of 1814 look like a cakewalk The Haunting Tragedy of the 1979 Sydney Ghost Train Fire the city of Strasbourg was overcome by a peculiar plague who stepped outside one day and began to dance roughly 100 others in Strasbourg were taken over by this strange mania The city tried to support this mass hysteria by hiring musicians and setting aside space in guild halls The plague came about for no clear reason and vanished much the same While the exact number of deaths wasn't documented it's understood that those who perished had weak hearts and couldn't withstand the prolonged exertion.  Some think the madness was just stress-induced mass hysteria this was not the first outbreak of compulsive dancing in Europe—there are as many as 10 other cases documented prior Most of the deaths you hear about from ancient Greece come from bloody battlefields or happen at the hands of dramatic political coups feels like it has been ripped right out of a cartoon Scholars today know him as the “Father of Tragedy,” with more than 90 plays under his belt Yet his death has the makings of some great comedy Spending the last years of his life in a self-imposed exile in Sicily A bald head that must have been particularly shiny and appealing as an eagle overhead mistook it for a rock Hoping to use this handy dandy rock to crack open its meal the eagle dropped a large tortoise down below When the tortoise struck Aeschylus on the head One of the co-owners of the George Thomas & Sons Textile Co. took a fall into one of the company's machines Typically factory machine accidents result in a gory and gruesome—yet ultimately quick—death The contraption he fell into was a pin-wheel dresser machine which winds woolen yarn on a large spool onto a smaller one he became trapped as layer after layer of yarn was wrapped around him so he was buried under 800 yards of wool before any of the employees knew something had gone wrong