We are particularly concerned about a number of Bolsonaro’s policy proposals that, if implemented, can be expected to inflict far-reaching and lasting damage on Brazilian communities and on the environment The following Manifesto published on December 27 and signed by 47 US organizations, including the 12 million strong AFL-CIO, warns of risks to Democracy, the […]
The British organization, GeneWatch, issued a warning to Brazilian officials about problems with the technology. The data comes from emails exchanged between health officials in the Cayman Islands and Oxitec, which produces the mosquitoes that have been released there and in four Brazilian cities. São Paulo. A British watchdog group has issued a report that GMO […]
In a recent public hearing in Congress, Brazil’s most respected public health institutions unanimously protested against Bill Number 6299/02. In a country that registered 100,000 cases of pesticide poisoning in the last decade, this Bill promises to further deregulate the industry, clearing the way for even more agribusiness corporate dumping of products that were banned in the […]
By Elliott Gabriel, MPN. A concerted push is underway in South America that could see one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water soon fall into the hands of transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola and Nestle. According to reports, talks to privatize the Guarani Aquifer – a vast subterranean water reserve lying beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, […]
The vast beach at Regencia was virtually abandoned. Instead of the usual tourists to one of the most important nature reserves along the Espirito Santo coast, a few desperate and sad groups were working the sand. One was a flock of vultures, which was attacking the fish carcasses that were constantly washing ashore. Another was […]
The legacy of colonialism is no more apparent than in the asymmetry between attitudes to sovereignty in the developing world and the developed. It would certainly be difficult to imagine a Brazilian Minister taking the international stage to propose the privatisation of the British Lake District, but this is analogous to what David Miliband put forward in […]
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When people think of Brasil and the environment the first thing that will spring to mind is the Amazon, specifically deforestation. What is lost in the noise is that Brasil and the Brazilian economy are amongst the greenest on the planet and that levels of deforestation have actually plummeted in the past ten years. Brasil has the […]