May 13 2013
Robert Pasley-Tyler and John Hemming, trustees of the Amazon Charitable Trust, were amongst a selected group of people invited to attend a private presentation, on the 10th of May, by Brazilian senators Jorge Viana (PT/Acre) and Luis Henrique (PMDB/Santa Catarina) on the new Forestry Code recently sanctioned by president Dilma Rousseff.
Read MoreMay 31 2013
The Amazon Charitable Trust (ACT) was invited to co-host, alongside WWF, the launch of Stanley Johnson’s new book, “'UNEP: The First Forty Years”, released to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the United Nations Environment Programme. Mr Johnson’s work traces the history and milestones of the UN agency, which has become the world’s leading inter-governmental organisation on environmental issues, and calls for new major efforts to halt global tropical deforestation.
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February 27 2014
A new health post has just been built and inaugurated in the Xixuaú Community. They had built a much needed health post in 2002, but due to a lack of appropriate material, it had fallen into disrepair.
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March 06 2015
ACT accompanied Rubem Cesar Fernandes, president and founder of Viva Rio – one of Brazil’s largest foundations – together with Andre Guimaraes of Conservation International and Sérgio Weguelin former director of the Amazon Fund, managed by BNDES, in a due diligence trip of the Rio Jauaperi and in particular the village of Xixuaú and the surrounding area.
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