UK donation will go to Indigenous and environmental protection causes

This week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. announced that the Amazon Fund will receive a grant from the United Kingdom of R$ 500 million. Marina Silva, current minister of Environment, is hospitalized in São Paulo with a diagnosis of Covid-19. However, she signaled that the money raised will be used to protect indigenous lands and food security. In addition, it will be used to combat illegal mining and deforestation in Brazil.

According to the investigation of TV Globothe donation was informed during a meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), In London. At which the Prime Minister was present. This amount will help the environment in combating deforestation and the Yanomami lands that have been suffering the consequences of illegal mining. This Saturday (6), a woman was found lifeless in the territory. This is already the 14th in just one week.

According to authorities, King Charles III had already spoken with President Lula about the preservation of the Amazon. “The first thing the king said to me was to take care of the Amazon. And I said: ‘I need help, it’s not just our will. Help and lots of resources are needed’”. Informed the president. The purpose of Amazon Fund is to seek funds to finance deforestation and forest degradation. It was created in 2008 during the Lula government.

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Marina, is in a stable state of health, but is under medical supervision and isolated to avoid contagion among other people. At the moment she is on complete rest. She is recovering well and according to reports, she has no fever, just some body aches and cough. Her hospitalization took place on Saturday morning at the Instituto do Coração (InCor), in Sao Paulo. The hospital announced that she has a respiratory infection caused by the coronavirus, but no viral pneumonia. She is under the medical care of a cardiologist, as well as a pulmonologist and an infectologist.

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