Tapajos under attack 8: The rush to turn the Amazon into...
The development over the last 40 years of Mato Grosso state in Brazil’s interior as an industrial agribusiness powerhouse has, from the beginning,...
Tapajos under attack 9: Amazon Soy Moratorium: defeating deforestation or greenwash...
In the early 2000s, public outrage over Amazon clear cutting for soy production caused transnational grain companies including Cargill, Bunge and Brazil’s Amaggi,...
Tapajos under attack 10: All crime and no punishment — Amazon...
Land grabbing and illegal ranching (even on public lands) has long been, and still is, big business in the Brazilian Amazon. Last year...
Tapajos under attack 11: Amazon land speculators poised to gain control...
In the Brazilian Amazon, the paving of highways makes adjacent forests far more attractive to land thieves, resulting in major deforestation. The Sustainable BR-163...
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...
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 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...
“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...
LAB Newsletter May 2017: The Tapajos Under Attack
5 May 2017
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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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