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Animals crossing: the simple solution to stop roadkill in the Amazon

9 October 2026 at 05:00

Installation of eight canopy bridges in Alta Floresta has enabled 15,000 safe crossings by animals including spider monkeys and marmosets – and more bridges are planned elsewhere

By about 7am, with dense fog blanketing the landscape, Gabriel Falquetto had already come across several road-killed animals along the ES-164 highway in Brazil’s Espírito Santo state. The biologist was on his way to Kaetés private natural heritage reserve (RPPN) in the Atlantic Forest, where he monitors wildlife and roadkill.

Then he spotted the lifeless body of a primate on the pavement. It was a buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps), a species listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list. An estimated 2,500 individuals remain in the wild, making it one of the world’s most threatened primates.

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© Photograph: Reconecta

© Photograph: Reconecta

© Photograph: Reconecta

‘It gave me a superpower – question everything’: ​as punk turns 50, bands from China to Greenland explain how it fires up their lives

9 October 2026 at 03:00

Whether on the frontline in Ukraine or skate parks in Soweto, the genre is still a vital outlet for disaffected people everywhere. Here, musicians explain how they rage against the machine

Andriy Zholob, vocalist/guitarist, Beton: When MTV arrived in Ukraine, I heard Nirvana, the Offspring, Bad Brains, Social Distortion and thrash metal, and realised that all this started from punk rock. Our drummer and I were in a ska-punk band first, but when our vocalist became pregnant we started Beton in 2017 and played lots of festivals.

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© Composite: Jess Clark for the Guardian: Getty Images/ Katrīna Līva Dalbiņa, Alejandra Núñez, Assante Chiweshe, Ruslan Bulgakov, Valeriia Nekhvodiuk, Yulia Sachul

© Composite: Jess Clark for the Guardian: Getty Images/ Katrīna Līva Dalbiņa, Alejandra Núñez, Assante Chiweshe, Ruslan Bulgakov, Valeriia Nekhvodiuk, Yulia Sachul

© Composite: Jess Clark for the Guardian: Getty Images/ Katrīna Līva Dalbiņa, Alejandra Núñez, Assante Chiweshe, Ruslan Bulgakov, Valeriia Nekhvodiuk, Yulia Sachul

‘Another coup d’état’: fears grow as Flávio Bolsonaro vows to ‘re-democratise’ Brazil

7 October 2026 at 11:03

After a surprise first-round victory, critics suggest son of disgraced ex-president could seek to continue his father’s authoritarian project

Flávio Bolsonaro, the far-right frontrunner to become Brazil’s next president, has vowed to “re-democratise” the South American country, increasing fears about a move into authoritarian rule if he wins power.

Brazil was re-democratised in the 1980s after a brutal 21-year dictatorship that Flávio’s father, the disgraced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, has long praised.

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© Photograph: André Borges/EPA

© Photograph: André Borges/EPA

© Photograph: André Borges/EPA

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