Brazil: bonanza for timber exporters
by Thaís Borges & Sue Branford
Forest degradation nearly doubled in the Brazilian Amazon last year, rising from 4,946 square kilometers in 2018, to...
The final offensive against Brazil’s indigenous people
The anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses indigenous resistance in the Amazon, the indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, and his pessimism about the climate crisis
Illegal mining poisons the Amazon
A new film by Jorge Bodansky analyzes the mercury contamination of Amazonian rivers as a result of illegal mining.
Destruction in the Amazon – it’s not lawlessness, it’s the law
Brazilian President
Jair Bolsonaro aroused global indignation in November when he affirmed: ‘Look,
you’re not going to do away with deforestation, or the burning – its...
The indigenous midwives of the Amazon
In the villages of Tabatinga, Amazonas, Ticuna midwives work
according to ancestral traditions, honing their skills generation after
generation. However, they remain unrecognised by the state.
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