Tag: land grabbing
How Brazil Is Privatizing Public Forests and Opening the Door for More Deforestation
Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also ...
Through Green Land Grabbing, Farmers in the Amazon Steal from Indians and Trick the Law
As global demand for food commodities has swelled, so has the practice of “land ...
The Fear of Being Killed Is Not Enough to Deter Those Fighting for Justice and Land in the Amazon
Fernando dos Santos Araújo woke up alongside his love, Bruno Pereira Gomes, on May ...
How an Amazon Tribe in Brazil Took Control of Their Own Story and Escaped Covid
When the Uru-eu-wau-wau were first contacted in 1981, disease and death followed shortly thereafter. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here Starts the End of Brazil’s Amazon Forest. It’s Called BR-319 Highway
The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil’s military ...
Brazil Determined to Hand Monitoring of Amazon Deforestation and Fire to the Military
In a recent announcement, Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão defended the creation of a ...
The Price of Fighting Land-grabbing in the Amazon Can Be Your Life
Maria Marcia Elpidia de Melo hasn’t seen her son Elmiro for more than six ...
Big Agribusiness Threatens Livelihood of 400.000 Coconut Breakers in Brazil’s Cerrado
Every September for half a century, Maria Antônia Trindade Mendes has started the babassu ...
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