#South america

[herpsandbirds]

Blue-eyed Ground Dove (Columbina cyanopis), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, endemic to the Cerrado region of Brazil

photograph by 戚超会

[turnnoffyourmind]

Sweetest sunset

Volcán Osorno, Puerto Varas, Los Lagos, Chile.

[mapsontheweb]

Forest coverage of South America

[manessha545]

Golden Retriever Dogs, Shopping mall, Passo Fundo, Brazil: Have you ever seen an escalator full of golden retrievers? Well, it happened at the Passo Fundo shopping mall in Brazil. A video from the mall shows all these golden retrievers riding down the escalator with their owners. It’s a cute sight, with some dogs looking more at ease than others.. The Golden Retriever is a Scottish breed of retriever dog of medium size... Passo Fundo is a municipality in the north of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Wikipedia

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[theancientwayoflife]

~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

Medium: Ceramics

[retrogamingblog2]

Zelda Goddess Statue spotted in the middle of São Paulo, Brazil

[reasonsforhope]

"Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent.

The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights and development opportunities for minors. It still must be signed into law by President Gustavo Petro.

Currently, the country’s civil code allows person as young as 14 years old to get married with parental consent.

The initial proposal to reform the law – presented in 2023 – used the slogan “they’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry, to be subject to different forms of violence and to miss out on education and development opportunities.

“Minors are not sexual objects, they’re girls,” congresswoman Clara López Obregón said in a statement after the proposal was greenlit.

Child marriage remains a widespread practice worldwide and affects around 12 million girls per year, according to the UN’s agency for children, UNICEF.

But there’s been a global drop in child marriages over the past few years, according to the agency’s statistics. “Ten years ago, one in four young women aged 20 to 24 was married as a child. Today that number has fallen to one in five,” UNICEF said.

In Latin America, poverty is the main factor leading to minors getting married, according to UNICEF."

[koenji]

Golden-spotted Ground Dove (Metriopelia aymara) native to the high Andes. x

[inatungulates]

Lowland tapir Tapirus terrestris

Observed by kennedy-borges-road, CC BY-NC

[paleoart]

"And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual"

Macrauchenia born with polycephaly, inspired by the poem "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin.

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[herpsandbirds]

Red-fan Parrot aka Hawk-headed Parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, Brazil

photograph by Thiago Calil

[turnnoffyourmind]

Unreal

Puerto Natales Mágico, Patagonia Chilena.

[renmoldovan]

Wulaia Bay, Patagonia, Chile

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[manessha545]

Rio Carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest celebration of Carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio Carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats, and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio. Wikipedia

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