Amazon, Santa Claus

Santa braves the sticky heat of the Amazon jungle to bring gifts to children in Brazilian village
Santa Claus has braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to the children of a small village near the Brazilian city of Manaus.
Santa arrives by boat to deliver presents to children in Brazil's Amazon
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino shot back Sunday after President-elect Trump suggested the Panama Canal return to U.S. control. “As president, I want to express clearly that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama, and will continue to do so,” Mulino said in video statement, according to an…
Santa visits indigenous children in Brazilian Amazon community
Santa Claus arrives by boat to deliver gifts to Indigenous children in the riverside community of Abelha in the Brazilian Amazon. Jorge Alberto, a 60-year-old technician, is one of 50 volunteers from Friends of Santa Claus who have delivered gifts to more than 150,
Santa Claus Braves Amazon Jungle To Bring Gifts To Children
More than 600 children gathered in Catalao,Brazil, to receive presents from Santa, who endured the tropical heat dressed in his traditional red suit.
Santa Claus delivers presents to Brazilian Amazon communities
Santa Claus navigated his way along the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday to distribute gifts to children in riverside communities.
Santa rappels down to bring Christmas cheer to Guatemalan children
Christmas came early for children on Sunday (December 22) as a firefighter dressed as Santa Claus rappelled down a bridge to bring cheer to a northern suburb of Guatemala City.
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Brazil’s shipping channel plans in Amazonian rivers will worsen climate change, experts warn
Brazil is poised to invest tens of billions reais to build more than 2,000 km (1,240 miles) of new shipping channels in ...
Forensic technology aids Brazil's crackdown on illicit Amazon gold trade
Gold is difficult to trace, especially once metal from different sources has been melted together. Investigators say this is ...
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Five Community-Based Tourism Experiences in the Brazilian Amazon
Across various regions of the Brazilian Amazon, traditional Indigenous, riverside, Quilombola, and rubber-tapper communities ...
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Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration reduced the expansion of illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon, but miners keep finding new sites. In 15 conservation units ...
Brazil farmer lobby asks to lift soybean ban from deforested Amazon rainforest
A farmers' lobby in Brazil is seeking to end a two-decade-long agreement that forbids grain traders from buying soybeans from ...
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Brazil's Amazon Sees Surge in Violence as Gangs Expand Presence: Report
Brazil's Amazon has been experiencing a surge in violence as criminal gangs expand their presence in over a third of municipalities in the country's rainforest region, according to a report by the ...
Photos reveal the first glimpse of a thriving, never-before-seen Amazon community
Astonishing new photos from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest give a glimpse of a prosperous, never-before-seen indigenous community ...
New technology aids Brazil's crackdown on illicit Amazon gold trade
Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally ...