Climate change threatens traditional extractive communities in the Amazon

Mongabay
Aug 30, 2021, 1:17 pm176 pts
“One of our main products is açaí, and lately we have had a very large loss due to this temperature issue,” says Ladilson Amaral, a farmer who’s part of the Santarém Rural Workers Union (STTR) in Pará, a Brazilian state in the northern Amazon. “We notice that the açaí trees are starting to change.…

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