Tapajos under attack 15: Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land...
Brazil’s president has until 22 June to approve or veto two bills (PLC 4 and PLC 5) turning over more than 600,000 hectares...
La Clave: London’s Latin America Festival
London's La Clave Festival returns to Crouch End on Saturday June 17, with music, film and talks, three of them organised by LAB.
The three...
Terra do Meio 3: O rio Iriri – conservação e seus...
Na terceira de seis postagens, uma discussão sobre os problemas dos colonos (barragens, legislação ambiental, grileiros) e uma visita a uma fazenda “fantasma”.
Tradução: Maria...
Terra do Meio 2: Famílias sob risco de expulsão na Estação...
Na segunda de seis postagens, Sue Branford fala de uma área onde a criação de uma unidade de conservação ambiental coloca comunidades tradicionais sob...
Brazil: Amazon’s Indians and rainforest under attack
Main image: Gamela indigenous people talk to police after the brutal attack by farmers in Maranhão state, Brazil. Photo: Ana Mendes/Indigenous Missionary Congress (CIMI)
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LAB Newsletter May 2017: The Tapajos Under Attack
5 May 2017
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“We don’t believe in words anymore”: Indians stand against Temer govt.
Indigenous groups control large reserves in the Amazon and have the constitutional right to more, but agribusiness and land thieves are working with...
Tapajos under attack 14: Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war...
The battle for the Amazon is being fought over two opposing viewpoints: the first, mostly held by indigenous and traditional people and their...
Tapajos under attack 13: Deforestation has become big business in the...
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Agamenom da Silva Menezes, is typical of modern Amazonian real estate operators: he is...
Tapajos under attack 12: Indigenous groups, the Amazon’s best land stewards,...
According to 2014 data for Legal Amazonia, 59 percent of that year’s illegal deforestation occurred on privately held lands, 27 percent in conservation...