When fixing up Belém for COP-30, does anything go?
Controversial mining company behind two of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters funds public works to make Helder Barbalho’s state “sustainable.” Meanwhile, those on the frontline of climate change are shoved to the sidelines of the climate debate.
Carbon Cowboys: Pará’s Public Defender accuses local government of land theft
A lawsuit points to misappropriation of public areas in five state agroextractive settlements, with involvement by companies and the city hall
Carbon cowboys: Prosecutor’s Office issues guidance on forest peoples’ rights
Document says there should be government agency oversight of carbon credit contracts, prior consultation, a clear division of benefits, and public announcements of the process
Pastures reach uncontacted territories, and other stories
A two-minute round-up of the best Amazon news stories on the Internet.
Ribeirinho Territory under attack from far right
A joint campaign by Altamira’s ruralists and Bolsonaro-supporting senators has helped Norte Energia to delay resettlement of traditional populations expelled by Belo Monte
The Munduruku woman indigenizing the world
Threatened with death in Brazil, Alessandra Korap is one of six activists from around the world whose work is recognized this Monday by the prestigious Goldman Prize for Environmentalism
‘No argument, no logic’ : Experts stunned by flimsy basis for Belo Monte hydrograph
At a seminar for senior government officials in Brasilia, researchers finally reveal the weak study on which the dam's operator Norte Energia has based its quota of 8,000 cubic meters per second for nature. They say this is dangerously inadequate for the important ecosystem and way of life of people who live on the river's 'Big Bend'.
Pro-mining mayor defies government and reality
The Amazonian municipality of Itaituba is a centre of illegal gold prospecting, which puts it firmly in the sights of the federal government's crackdown on polluting activity inside indigenous territory. The pro-mining mayor Valmir Climaco response has been to deny the existence of indigenous lands, despite hundreds of years of evidence to the contrary.
‘Everybody has mercury poisoning—children, old people, pregnant women.’
This is life in Katõ Village, in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, one of the lands hardest hit by illegal mining. If such mercury contamination were detected in a wealthy neighborhood in an urban area of Brazil, how would the State and the press react?
Raoni wants to
meet with Lula
Brazil's most iconic indigenous leader, the Kayapó learnt from the experience of Belo Monte that pressure must be put on white people's governments - no matter the political party - so that nature and the native peoples are respected
