Tag: Threats To The Amazon

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The Military Operation Green Brazil in the Amazon Is Ending. The Order Now Is Results-Based Environmentalism

A military operation against environmental violations in the Brazilian Amazon is coming to a ...

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Caio de Freitas Paes
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The environmental license for the Grainway project could come soon. Image courtesy of the Brazilian National Land Transportation Agency (ANTT).

Amazon Indians Living 10,000 Years in Area Want a Say in New Grainway Train Project

A controversial freight railway line that would cut through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian ...

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Jennifer Ann Thomas
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A memorial in honor of Dorothy Stang, a U.S.-born nun killed 15 years ago. Crosses represent murdered and threatened rural workers. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace.

Why Killings of Environmentalists and Indians Keep Increasing in Brazil: Almost Certain Impunity

When Jair Bolsonaro took office as president of Brazil at the start of 2019, ...

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Daniel Camargos
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The BR-319 is now passable in the dry season due to a "maintenance" program begun in 2016 - Photo: P.M. Fearnside.

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 ...

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Philip M. Fearnside
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Commodities on the move on the completed southern section of the BR-163 Highway - Roosevelt Pinheiro / Agência Brasil

For the Military, the Brazilian Indian Is a Savage and an Obstacle to Progress

The media portrayal of Brazil’s annual fire season — which in 2020 is trending ...

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Peter Speetjens
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Waiãpi indigenous children in Amapá state, Brazil. Image by Sam Cowie/Mongabay.

Amazon Indians Fear Coronavirus Amid a Campaign to Convert Them to Christianity

Indigenous leaders in Brazil are acting to avert the devastating impact coronavirus could have ...

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Sam Cowie
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