The Belem Declaration is an ambitious roadmap drawn up by eight South American nations to protect the rainforest and combat climate crisis
Indigenous Mura people gather in a deforested area of a non-demarcated indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State in Brazil in 2019.
“The forest unites us. It is time to look at the heart of our continent and consolidate, once and for all, our Amazon identity,” Lula da Silva said, as he welcomed other world leaders to the two-day event. Previously, cross-border cooperation has historically been scant, undermined by low trust, ideological differences and the lack of government presence.
Since returning to power as president, Lula da Silva's administration has already reportedly reduced deforestation in Brazil's Amazon by around 42 percent. In Brazil, the world's top exporter of beef and soy, the destruction has already wiped out around one-fifth of the rainforest.
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