Tag: Amazon
Getting Rid of President Bolsonaro Won’t Solve the Deforestation Problem in the Amazon
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires ...
The Adventures of a Bored Journalist in the Magical Lands of Brazil and Latin America
With a population of more than 2.5 million, Manaus is by far the largest ...
Land Invasions More than Double in Brazil. Majority of Victims Are Indians
Land conflicts in Brazil hit 1,576 cases in 2020, the highest number ever recorded ...
I’m a Munduruku and I See First Hand Our Amazon World Crumbling
We see how our forests are turning into large mud pools. We see how ...
Indigenous People Are Close to Brazilians in the Big City. But People Don’t Know It
During a presentation for Indigenous People’s Week, celebrated in April in Brazil, at his ...
A Message to Brazil: “We Are Not Occupying Your Lands. You Have Invaded Us.”
We will remember 2020 as the year when the coronavirus pandemic spread worldwide, reached ...
They Call Themselves Green, But Palm Oil in the Amazon Means Deforestation and Human Rights Violations
Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous ...
Brazil’s Amazon Needs New Development Model With Less Cattle and Soy and More Use of Biodiversity
President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to develop the Amazon through expanded mining and farming has ...
Amazon Deforestation to Endanger Hydropower and Water Supply in Brazil’s Big Cities
Climate change will increase the burdens on Brazil’s armed forces and endanger the country’s ...
Over 3,000 Brazilian Animal and Plant Species Are Endangered or Vulnerable to Extinction
Brazil has 3,229 animal and plant species under threat — 19.8 percent of the ...
