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Liliana Peixinho
Age: 44
Home: Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Liliana Peixinho loves her hometown, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil but worries about the environment. Outraged at the lack of coverage in the local press, she picked up her camera to shoot the piles of rubbish and waste.
Filed in: Latin America & the Caribbean, Climate Change

Brazil’s environmental Issues

Agri-business and illegal logging are the key culprits of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
An area equivalent to six football fields a minute is destroyed
Sister Dorothy Stang, a 74-year-old US missionary was assassinated in February 2005 for her work in defending the Amazon and rural workers
Large cities like Rio de Janeiro, Sâo Paulo and Salvador da Bahia are badly polluted

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Brazil
population: 181.4 million
life expectancy: 68
population without proper sewage system: 25%

Filed in: Latin America & the Caribbean, Climate Change