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Germany said on Monday that it wants to provide around €200 million ($217 million) to Brazil for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, now a more pro-environment government is in place. The left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) took over in January from right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro. Behind the funding is Germany’s key aim to improve the situation for indigenous groups in the Amazon region, the Development Ministry said in Berlin. Although Lula was not considered an environmentalist in his previous terms in office, he has focused on that more recently and in any case i…