The Belgian Shepherd helped the rescue team reach the Cessna 206 aircraft, and was also credited for smelling out the kids using a feeding bottle of the youngest child.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the campaign trail last year, pledged to put environmental agency Ibama, back in charge of combating deforestation with beefed-up funding and personnel.
South America’s Pantanal wetlands — reaching into Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay — are burning at a record pace this year, and commercial farmers are largely to blame.
The move came after China imposed the National Security Law in Hong Kong that punishes dissent, criminalises sedition and curbs protests with life imprisonment.
If even 20-25 per cent of Amazon is deforested, its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide would collapse and it could become its biggest patch of scrub land.
The Amazon is a crucial carbon sink, which makes responding to Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro's deforestation efforts a matter of international responsibility.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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