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Activists were seen planting trees to pay tribute to COVID-19 victims, including journalists, in the Mata Atlantica Forest on Saturday, as part of the Remembrance Forest (Bosque da Memoria) environmental project.
Representative of the Brazil Press Association Cristina Serra, who was present at the event said, "In Brazil, we had a very high number of journalists who died of coronavirus, according to the data of the National Federation of Journalists. Brazil is the second country in the world with the highest number of journalists who died from COVID-19."
Backed by the United Nations Environment Programme, the project initiated by the association Mico-Leao-Dourado, aims at paying homage to the pandemic victims while helping reforest Brazil's southeastern woodlands.
The association vows to plant up to 200,000 trees by June 5 which is the date on which World Environment Day is celebrated.
As of Sunday, Brazil has recorded more than 245,000 COVID-related deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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SOT, Luiz Paulo, Executive Secretary of the Mico-Leao-Dourado Association (Portuguese): "The campaign Remembrance Forest (bosque das memorias) was organised by NGOs and institutions, trying to pay tribute to COVID-19 victims, as a way of symbolically representing life with those trees in all this tragedy that we are living."
SOT, Cristina Serra, Representative of the Brazil Press Association: "In Brazil, we had a very high number of journalists who died of coronavirus, according to the data of the National Federation of Journalists. Brazil is the second country in the world with the highest number of journalists who died from COVID-19."
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