The Hope For Slowing Amazon Deforestation

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🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Brazil's president-elect, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is renewing calls to protect the Amazon and reign in the deforestation. Climate scientists are encouraged but so far there aren't a lot of specifics of how this might happen. NPR's Kirk Siegler traveled to a remote Amazonian research station that is also threatened by illegal logging and talks to host Aaron Scott about his trip.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	Hey there Shortwaveers,
0:06.0	Aaron's got here with NPR Corp. Kirk Sigler. Hello Kirk.
0:10.0	Aaron, you are fresh back from an epic reporting trip.
0:14.0	Tell us about where you've been.
0:15.0	I was lucky enough to travel into the Brazilian Amazon
0:19.0	as part of a UN Foundation reporting fellowship
0:24.0	where a few of us journalists from around the world
0:27.0	traveled into a place called Camp 41,
0:30.0	which is a remote research camp,
0:32.0	about 80 miles north of the Amazonian capital of Manaus,
0:37.0	where scientists have been studying the effects of deforestation
0:41.0	on the rainforest since the 80s.
0:43.0	And are we talking like a series of buildings
0:46.0	in the forest you heard describe the camp to us?
0:49.0	I would say maybe glamping adjacent.
0:52.0	Okay.
0:53.0	We had running water if you count running water being pipes
0:57.0	directly from the stream.
0:58.0	Uh-huh.
0:59.0	But we also had great food.
1:01.0	We had a kitchen area and cooks, and we slept in hammocks,
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