At the World Economic Forum in January 2019, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said, in an informal conversation with former US vice president Al Gore, that he wants to exploit the riches of the Amazon in partnership with the United States. In new documentary ‘The Forum’, Brazil’s far-right president is caught in candid conversation with former […]
By Nathália Urban On November 1st, Paulo Paulino Guajajara was violently murdered by loggers. Paulino, was a member of the Guardians of the Forest group. The group patrols and protects the Araribóia indigenous land in Maranhão. This was not the first time the group has suffered from loggers’ retaliation for their territorial protection work. Paulino […]
2 months into the largest spill in Brazilian history, after gutting environmental protection agencies and silencing scientific research institutes, the government can’t figure out where the oil is coming from. With 2100 km of beaches already poisoned, far right President Bolsonaro says, “the worst is yet to come.” First he blamed the communists. Why not? […]
Scientist says slick appears to be from drilling accident. Bolsonaro administration ignores data, tries to blame Venezuela On October 30th, two days before Brazilian Federal police moved to investigate a Greek oil tanker for the oil spill which has poisoned over 2000 km of Brazilian coastline, researchers at the Federal University of Alagoas published satellite […]
By Nate Allen. “This is the biggest (marine) environmental disaster in the history of Brazil, if we consider the length of the coastline that has been affected”, said biologist Flavio Lima. Brazil’s Northeast 2,000 km shoreline has been splattered with oil, from large swathes to millions of tiny blobs that are the size of a […]
A FUNAI inspection post built inside the Karipuna reservation in Rondonia was destroyed by loggers and land thieves. The building had equipment in it including an electrical generator, furniture and a mechanics garage. The building hadn’t been used since the Dilma Rousseff presidency. An inspection post belonging to the National Indian Foundation (Fundação Nacional do […]
On Monday morning, October 7th, a group of twenty organizations protested against Cargill Corporation’s role in the out of control devastation of the Amazon rainforest and massacre of indigenous people currently underway in Brazil, due to far right President Jair Bolsonaro’s dismantlement of the environmental regulatory system and attempts to open indigenous reservations up to […]
Brazil’s far-right President was welcomed in New York on the eve of the opening of the UN General Assembly with demonstrations against his role in the burning of the Amazon rainforest. Monday 23 September 2019: President Jair Bolsonaro has already arrived in New York City (USA) to open work at the UN General Assembly General […]
A broad coalition of civil society organizations demand that the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres censure Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the General Assembly over the Amazon rainforest’s destruction and grave human rights concerns New York City – U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres should formally censure the extremist right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a broad coalition […]
The development philosophy behind the fires in the Amazon is based on the World Bank funded, Dictatorship era Polonoroeste project, which killed thousands and devastated Rondonia’s rainforest. To Bolsonaro and his military aids, there was nothing wrong with it. by Brian Mier During the 1980s a series of shocking images and films appeared of massive […]