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How to search for someone lost in the Amazon rainforest
On the 5th of June this year, a 10-day search for two men began in the deep of the Amazon rainforest.
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Following a rescue team as they find belongings of missing Indigenous Amazon expert
Search teams are continuing to scour a stretch of a remote Brazilian river, looking for a British journalist and indigenous expert who have been missing for more than a week.
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Breaking with Britain: Barbados becomes a Republic
Ayshah Tull asks what this move means for the Royal family but also for the status of ‘global Britain’.
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Debate: Will we see ‘meaningful action’ at COP26?
We were joined by climate activist Coll McCail and Justin Adams, Executive Director of the Tropical Rainforest Alliance
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The man protecting hundreds of endangered animals from traffickers in Peruvian Amazon
In the Peruvian Amazon, traffickers are increasingly desperate to catch, kill and sell exotic animals to make ends meet.
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Covid cases surge in Chile despite high vaccine uptake
Vaccines alone aren’t enough to bring the pandemic under control, scientists have warned – something Chile has found out, the hard way.
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Chinese fishing fleets threatening fragile Galapagos ecosystem
Chinese industrial fishing fleets have been plundering the waters off the Galapagos coast.
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Peru defends its waters as Chinese boats are accused of illegal fishing
Hundreds of vessels have spent weeks trawling for stocks, in a region which is considered one of the world’s most biodiverse marine areas.
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Grandma risks Covid to feed Peru’s starving
This selfless grandmother is feeding hundreds of poor and sick neighbours in Covid-struck Peru.
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Colombia virus cases still rising despite swift lockdown
Colombia acted swiftly to lock down early and yet cases there keep on rising.
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How an Amazon rainforest village survived Covid-19 with modern and traditional medicine
We meet members of the Kambeba tribe in the Amazonian rainforest to find out how they have been coping.
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One family’s 250 mile walk home – as Colombia’s lockdown forces Venezuelan migrants to return
We have followed one family who lost their rented flat and livelihoods in the Colombian capital Bogota, and were forced to begin their way home by foot.
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Bodies left in streets of Guayaquil as Ecuador struggles with coronavirus
In the UK, we are understandably obsessed with quantifying this unfathomable crisis: counting the ventilators, the tests, the infected and of course the dead.
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Growing number of countries impose travel restrictions and quarantine measures
India has announced a suspension of all entry visas for a month, as well as restricting return travel for its citizens who are currently abroad.
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The Amazon is still burning – and illegal mining could make it worse
The Brazilian government has banned most land clearing for 60 days, in an attempt to stop the fires which have devastated parts of the Amazon rainforest.But another drain on natural resources there – and one far less reported – is mining, especially illegal gold mining.