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´óÏó´«Ã½ devotes a day to the Amazon
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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ mounts its most in-depth live coverage yet of the Amazon rainforest with The Amazon Paradox, a special day of programming on Thursday 15 May.
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Throughout the day, ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service journalists will deliver reports for radio and online at bbcworldservice.com/amazon.
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The Amazon Paradox explores the local and global economic and environmental cycles resulting in major deforestation of the region. Live reports from across the Amazon will dominate the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s news output throughout the day.
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Americo Martins, ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service Americas Executive Editor, said: "The Amazon Paradox will take a fresh look at an important issue.
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"The day will give audiences an opportunity to hear the voices of those blamed for the deforestation, meet those policing and governing this vast area and to get to the core of how all of this is affecting the lives of the local communities and millions of people across the world."
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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ will tell the stories of those involved in the legal and illegal destruction of the rainforest.
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While journalists Fergus Nicoll, Gary Duffy and Carolina Glycerio will bring live reports and in-depth analysis from three different locations in Brazil, journalists from several ´óÏó´«Ã½ language services will also travel to Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Suriname.
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They will explore the challenges faced by authorities trying to save and exploit the forest with the very communities sometimes blamed for the major deforestation – the "Amazon Paradox".
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A ´óÏó´«Ã½ boat touring the Amazon river will visit Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon region, and Santarem, which suffers major illegal logging.
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Reports will be delivered to the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s international audiences in English, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese while the remaining 22 language services will also cover the events.
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The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s interactive radio and online programme World Have Your Say will link communities living in the Amazon basin with listeners across the world.
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Brasil will also team up with its Brazilian online partner ENN to bring news, stories, images and videos from the heart of the Amazon. Their reports will feature on bbcbrasil.com and bbcworldservice.com/amazon.
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The dedicated website bbcworldservice.com/amazon will carry the best audio to come out of the day along with a special Amazon Q&A and interactive maps.
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Other highlights include diaries, blogs by ´óÏó´«Ã½ teams in the Amazon and links to ´óÏó´«Ã½ language websites reporting on the Amazon.
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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ will also share images with the social networking website Flickr.
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The Amazon Paradox theme will also feature in the following ´óÏó´«Ã½ programming:
- Chilean author Isabel Allende will be interviewed in the book programme The Word
- The documentary Living With Chico Mendez will mark the 20th anniversary of the assassination of the green activist
- Business Daily will catch up with Swedish-born Johan Eliasch, who spent around US$16million on land in the heart of the Amazon rainforest for conservation.
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