THE FIGHT FOR PRESERVATION
- On quilombo lands, the forest is still standing
Land that is now recognized or in the process of being deeded as a quilombo [community of descendants of fugitive enslaved Africans] serves to shield against deforestation. For the past thirteen years, vegetation has remained intact in 148 areas of Brazil’s Legal Amazon. (Source: InfoAmazonia) - Logging company has quilombo areas in their sites
Considered models of sustainable development, residents of quilombos in northern Pará state are questioning a contract with a logging company that wants to exploit their biological reserve. (Source: Mongabay) - Demarcation of Indigenous land thwarts mining company’s plans
A project of the Canadian mining company Potássio do Brasil in Indigenous land occupied by the Mura people, in the state of Amazonas, may be suspended by the area’s demarcation process. (Source: InfoAmazonia)
FOREST UNDER THREAT
- States in Brazil’s Legal Amazon hide cattle data
Eight of the nine states in Brazil’s Legal Amazon have blocked access to information on cattle movement and breeder registries, making it hard to identify irregularities. (Source: Repórter Brasil) - Land-grabbers advance on uncontacted peoples in Roraima
Loggers and land-grabbers already occupy almost half of the Pirititi Indigenous Territory in southern Roraima state, where uncontacted peoples live. The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office is pressuring for demarcation of the area. (Source: Amazônia Real) - Mining threatens newly identified fish species
Only recently discovered, the species of armored catfish called cascudo-graveto (Farlowella amazonum), which lives in tributaries of the Tapajós River in Pará, is already endangered by a bauxite mining project. (Source: ((o))eco)
Scene from the documentary film Gyuri, shown at the preview of the Cine Japu movie theater, in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the State of Amazonas. The production deals with the Hungarian photographer Claudia Andujar’s link connection with the Yanomami Indigenous Land. Photo: reproduction
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS
- Cinema focuses on Indigenous production
São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the state of Amazonas, now has a cinema that offers free screenings of films featuring Indigenous topics every two weeks, with informal discussions. (Source: ISA) - Jaguar to be reintroduced to the Amazo
A pioneer project that earlier reintroduced the female jaguars Vivara and Pandhora is now working to reintroduce a male cat to the Amazon, in the state of Pará. (Source: Mongabay)
POLITICS
- Banco do Brasil finances deforestation
Although it espouses a policy of climate responsibility, Banco do Brasil has invested in seven companies with ties to the deforestation of the Amazon and to labor conditions analogous to slavery. (Source: Repórter Brasil)
Spell check (Portuguese): Elvira Gago
Translation into Spanish: Meritxell Almarza
English translation: Mark Murray. Edited by Diane Whitty
Photography editing: Marcelo Aguilar, Mariana Greif and Pablo Albarenga
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