Tag: Conservation
Builders of Railroad in Brazil Call It Progress. The Price Is Too High Say Locals
It happened eight years ago: Elicarlos Ferreira da Silva and his family were returning ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cattle Ranchers in the Amazon Could Earn More Farming. But They Wouldn’t Be Happy
Picture the Brazilian Amazon. You probably don’t see a lot of cows in that ...
Presented as Salvation of the Rainforest, the Amazon Soy Moratorium Is More Greenwash and Propaganda
At the turn of the 21st century, a juggernaut of expanding soy production moved ...
Brazil Is Losing Conservation Reserves. Mining Interests Seem to Be Behind the Move
New legislation in Brazil has been proposed to reduce or eliminate several Amazon conservation ...
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