One person was reported missing in floods in Pernambuco Heavy rain has been falling in the state of Alagoas since the start of the month Porto de Pedras recorded 97.6 mm of rain in 24 hours to 02 July 2022 the state’s Environment and Water Resources agency reported rivers were above the danger mark in 5 locations: the Paraíba river at Viçosa; the Canhoto river at São José da Laje; the Mundaú river at Murici; the Jacuípe river at Jacuípe; and the Mundaú river at Rio Largo Civil Defence in the state said 39,285 people had evacuated their homes and moved to stay with relatives or to an emergency accommodation centre São José da Laje and Coruripe among the hardest hit Heavy rainfall in May this year caused severe flooding in the state The state’s Environment and Water Resources agency said in the 60 days to 03 July the state recorded the amount of rain normally seen in the whole year The state of Pernambuco also saw heavy rain over the last few days Barreiros recorded 94.6 mm of rain in 24 hours to 01 July Garanhuns recorded 110.8 mm in the following 24 hour period Local media reported evacuations in the municipalities of Barreiros Brazil’s National Civil Defence said nearly 4,200 people had evacuated their homes across 24 municipalities One person was reported missing after being swept away by flash floods in Jaqueira Governor Paulo Câmara visited some of the affected areas including São Benedito do Sul on 03 July 2022 Over 80 people lost their lives in severe flooding and landslides in the state in May this year Heavy rain from 02 July 2022 caused flooding which destroyed roads and damaged homes in parts of the  Metropolitan Region of Natal in Rio Grande do Norte state The city government has opened schools to house evacuees and distributed mattress and other relief supplies Ponta Negra in Natal recorded 160 mm of rain in 24 hours to 03 July 2022 Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList Get our news on your inbox! Suscribe x MercoPress, en Español Montevideo, May 5th 2025 - 14:08 UTC The Governors of the Brazilian States of Pernambuco and Alagoas issued separate emergency decrees during the weekend due to heavy rains affecting 12 and 29 cities respectively Pernambuco Governor Raquel Lyra decreed a situation of emergency in 12 cities in Zona da Mata heavy rains have affected 2,862 people from 756 families 447 people from 656 families are displaced and 101 families are homeless The emergency is established in the municipalities of São Benedito do Sul Thirteen points of landslides were registered in these cities - four in Catende it took into account the preservation of the welfare of the population and the socioeconomic activities of the affected regions and the fact that the inhabitants of the affected municipalities still do not have satisfactory conditions to overcome the damage and losses caused The government also announced the availability of emergency funding to municipalities in distress and calamity including those caused by heavy rains recorded in the metropolitan region of Recife and the areas of Mata and Agreste in recent days Governor Paulo Dantas Saturday declared a situation of emergency in 29 municipalities The municipalities reached by the decree are Atalaia Over 22,000 people have been affected statewide 2,756 people were left homeless and 19,273 people have been displaced 2,862 people have been affected by the rains in the state of which 447 are homeless and 101 are displaced Commenting for this story is now closed.If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page Isolated stretches of the Atlantic rainforest are home to fewer species of plants and animals Adriano GambariniSerra Grande Mill: 9,000 hectares of Atlantic rainforest preserved in the midst of the sugar caneAdriano Gambarini the small municipality of São José da Laje is home to a centuries-old sugar and alcohol mill which over the last few years has been functioning as an important natural laboratory which covers an area of 20,000 hectares in which various stretches of the Atlantic rainforest are engulfed by a landscape dominated by sugar cane from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) found the ideal place to investigate how the transformation of a vast continuous area of native vegetation into isolated stretches of forest – an effect ecologists call fragmentation – affects different species of plants and animals In the 9,000 hectares of Atlantic rainforest that have been preserved by the mill Tabarelli’s team selected 109 stretches of different sizes to analyze – the biggest and best preserved is the Coimbra forest with its 3,500 continuous hectares of original Atlantic rainforest Over an eight year period the researchers took note of the biological characteristics of all the trees over 10 centimeters in diameter that they found in four types of environments: 100 meter wide strips on the outermost edge of Coimbra; stretches inside this particular forest; clearings where the native vegetation was recovering; and islands of forest of between 3 and 80 hectares which were published this year in the journal clearly showed that the composition of trees in a stretch of forest surrounded by more forest is very different from the composition of trees in an initially identical fragment The ecologists from Pernambuco saw that the number of species of trees on the edges and in the smaller fragments is half that found in inner areas of continuous natural vegetation In impoverished forest areas there are four times more species (and more individual ones) of trees that are specialist in colonizing altered areas like clearings or forests undergoing regeneration These trees are more resistant to the altered conditions of transition zones between the forest and the plantation – the so-called edges - which generally receive more sunshine and are warmer The change in the composition of tree species is not the only alteration observed in these more degraded forest stretches showed that tree communities lose certain reproductive types when forest fragments are isolated from each other In forest fragments there are no trees pollinated by birds according to an article published 2007 in PloS One Only trees that depend on bats and butterflies for pollination survive but in smaller numbers – around half what was expected Trees with flowers greater than 2 centimeters are also rare Ariadna Lopes/ufpeRare species: ingá flower pollinated by bats and…Ariadna Lopes/ufpe These results make it clear that the effects of being on the edge eliminate – at least in part – those trees that need specialist pollination to reproduce This influence may extend up to 300 meters into the forest In three fragments only more generalist tree species grow can be pollinated by various small insects and are more resistant to less ideal living conditions “This effect makes the smaller fragments behave as if they were entirely on the edge” The reduction in tree species creates a vicious circle: the animal population becomes impoverished which in turn leads to an even greater reduction in the plant population Without plants those animals that depend on pollen fruit or leaves have no way of surviving in forest fragments where they are isolated because they are unable to cross the sugar plantation where there is neither food nor shelter As plants also need animals to reproduce and spread they follow the fate of the fauna by becoming impoverished The information collected by the team of zoologist confirms the same tendency among animals that is seen with tree species The group set traps to capture mammals in the forests of the Serra Grande Mill and saw that none of the fragments houses all the mammalian diversity Like the plants only more generalist rodents manage to survive in a large number of the smallest islands of forest It is not always enough just to have wings for moving between these forest islands Studies carried out in stretches of Atlantic rainforest in the southeast region of Brazil have shown that birds also suffer from the impact of fragmentation As part of a Biota/FAPESP program project and collaboration with researchers from the University of Freiberg has been investigating the behavior of various bird species in the Morro Grande reserve The researchers found that the blue manikin (Chiroxiphia caudata) and the rufous-breasted leaftosser (Sclerurus scansor) published this year in Biological Conservation calculates that round fragments need to be at least 23 hectares in size so that half of its area can maintain the characteristics of the center of the forest that are essential for the survival of these birds The white-shouldered fire-eye (Pyriglena leucoptera) which prefer the thickest zones of vegetation in the forest thrive in the tangle of bamboo and creepers that are characteristic of the edge Ariadna Lopes/ufpe… Majestic heaven lotus [Gustavia augusta] found in smaller numbers in forest fragmentsAriadna Lopes/ufpe there is no magic formula for guaranteeing the ecological functioning of the Atlantic rainforest Different species have different needs and the current situation has to be dealt with: a highly fragmented forest where there are few extensive stretches of continuous natural vegetation Given this situation the ideal thing is to preserve some large areas in order to guarantee the survival of animals that are highly sensitive to disturbances that become intimidated even when they are obliged to cross – even flying – a dirt road and concentrate efforts on maintaining the link between smaller fragments “If we use corridors to unite good size fragments with others Even though being on the edge affects corridors and patches of the forest the researcher explains that the passage of animals would help regenerate the forest and make it less homogenous This may be the way to recover and maintain the biological diversity that so delighted the Europeans in the 16th century and still has the greatest wealth of Atlantic rainforest Based on the work of his group and of others who are doing similar experiments in the Amazon Tabarelli sums up his findings: “When the mature forest is extremely fragmented it tends to be transformed into undergrowth and remain as undergrowth young vegetation formed almost exclusively by colonizing species According to the ecologist this is the first time that an hypothesis has been formulated that summarizes and integrates the main effects of fragmentation on the forest The warning is in the comment that the ecologist form UFPE wrote the only way of preserving plant and animal communities with a structure similar to that of a mature forest is to maintain stretches of natural vegetation that cover at least 10,000 hectares and large areas free from edge effects It may seem like a lot of land but for large predators it is not enough “Forest fragments of 10,000 hectares are probably insufficient for maintaining viable populations of felines This situation is worrying because to the north of the São Francisco River there are practically no remaining stretches of Atlantic rainforest over 5,000 hectares © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved which commemorates the Trans Day of Remembrance includes descriptions of violence and bigotry against transgender people The Wild Hunt believes it is important to our mission to acknowledge given the importance of transgender people to the Pagan movement  Ygor Arrudasouza called the police to his apartment in downtown Miami at 4:25 AM they found the body of a woman covered in blood with stab wounds from a fork and knife Arrudasouza faces one count of second-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery The victim was Yunieski “Yuni” Carey Herrera the first woman to change her Cuban passport to match her female identity AUGUSTA, Ga. –  Felycya Harris was an interior decorator.  “She enjoyed lending her eye to improve the surroundings of others, and made others feel comfortable in their own space,” notes a Human Rights Campaign press release. “She said she could do ‘just about anything with decorating,’ which she learned from her late grandmother.” Reports say that Harris is “the third transgender person to be killed in the area in the last year so she was not the only case of violence transgender women face in their own communities.” TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  –  Tony McDade – known to friends as “Tony the Tiger” – said in a video the night before his death that he had been attacked by five people. Rolling Stone reported that McDade vowed revenge on his attackers The details of what happened next are unclear but McDade was shot and killed by a Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) officer I’m an officer,’” claims one witness He was misgendered by the police and by subsequent reports [Tony McDade via the Human Rights Campaign] A Gofundme page was created for McDade’s funeral expenses to help his mother. The Gofundme organizer wrote: “While the grand jury declined to hand down indictments against the police officers it expressed concern… It also noted that the officer who shot and killed McDade violated police department policy by not activating his body camera Shortly after the release of the grand jury’s report on Friday Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey appealed for calm noting “the pain and trauma that these incidents have caused The mayor called for a review of the police department’s use of deadly force and said he would seek to include a mental health component to how police respond to incidents McDade’s death coincided with nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd Tony’s Gofundme page has raised $251,411 There are hundreds of similar stories from just this year. The 2020 data from the Transrespect project continues to show the scope of the tragedy and the challenges faced by the transgender community Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence Today we honor the memory of those who perished because they led authentic lives We say the names of those we lost in the last year for their peace “La Chachis” / “La Tocha” [Source: Transrepect.org] And the many others whose names were unreported and whose authentic lives were not acknowledged Please consider visiting Trans Respect vs. Transphobia Worldwide or GLAAD to learn more The Wild Hunt is not responsible for links to external content Visit our The Wild Hunt subreddit! 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