Living in the shadow of Amazon tailings dams
Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), the world’s fourth largest bauxite producer, encroached on riverine communities beside the Trombetas River in the Brazilian Amazon in...
Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park
The Yanomami Park covers 37,000 square miles in the Brazilian Amazon on the Venezuelan border; it is inhabited by 27,000 Yanomami. Soaring gold prices...
The Amazon: Covid-19 exploited to get power lines built
Plans to build a massive EHV 230 kV power line 225 kms long from Óbidos in Pará state across the Amazon river to Parintins...
Bolsonaro — the new Jim Jones
President Bolsonaro is the new 'Jim Jones', says Jan Rocha, comparing the Brazilian president to the cult leader who led his followers in a mass suicide in Guayana in 1978.
“Creaction Amazónica”
"CreAction Amazónica" - a virtual caravan against the climate crisis. Appeal to join, send in your own video. Results to be broadcast on 24 September on YouTube and Facebook.
We were born as Forest Guardians 1
A year ago, Paulo Paulino, a Guajajara Indian, was murdered, with the assassination reverberating around the world.
To mark the anniversary of his death, Fiona...
We were born as Forest Guardians 2
A year ago, Paulo Paulino, a Guajajara Indian, was murdered, with the assassination reverberating around the world.
To mark the anniversary of his death, Fiona...
Brazil: the Yanomami abandoned
A new report highlights the escalating existential crisis among the 30,000 Indigenous people living in the Yanomami Territory, covering 9,664,975 hectares (37,317 square miles)...
Brazil: diversity does well, but the moderates are the winners
Bolsonaro and his brand of extreme right wing politics have emerged as the big losers in Brazil’s recent local elections, but established left wing parties have not done so well either. Jan Rocha reports.
Mining victims denounce ‘Genocide legalized by the state’
Residents of traditional communities in the Brazilian Amazon municipality of Barcarena, near the mouth of the Amazon River, say that their subsistence and commercial livelihoods, and their health, have been destroyed by an invasion of mining companies which began in the mid-1980’s. This story is the fifth in a series.