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Residents denounce crime against the environment

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Members of the collective Ocupe e Abrace are opposing a new 22 storey block of flats, to be built next to Praça Homero Silva in Pompeia. This threatens to dry out the nine springs of the Agua Preta (Black Water) stream, one of them inside the the plot where the block will be built, threatening vegetation and wildlife and the whole ecosystem which shelters and protects the springs.

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Video: Rede TVT, June 2018

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