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					<title>Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/mongabays-top-amazon-stories-from-2021/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Dec 2021 15:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Cattle, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Philosophy, Conservation Solutions, Controversial, COVID-19, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Disasters, Diseases, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forestry, Forests, Green, Health, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Innovation, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Logging, Mining, National Parks, Parks, Pasture, Photos, Politics, Pollution, Protected Areas, Public Health, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Research, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the Amazon, 2021 was yet another year under the pandemic where the onslaught against nature never seemed to end. Deforestation continues, surging at year’s end Deforestation continued in the Brazilian Amazon, surging at the year’s end to reach its highest level since 2006. Agriculture is the primary culprit. In the Amazon, forests are cleared [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the Amazon, 2021 was yet another year under the pandemic where the onslaught against nature never seemed to end. Deforestation continues, surging at year’s end Deforestation continued in the Brazilian Amazon, surging at the year’s end to reach its highest level since 2006. Agriculture is the primary culprit. In the Amazon, forests are cleared and burned largely to make way for cattle and soy. More than 13,235 square kilometers (5,110 square miles) of rainforest — an area three times the size of the city of São Paulo — was cleared between Aug. 1, 2020, and July 31, 2021, according to data released by the Brazilian government in November. Deforestation hotspots across the Amazon in 2021 (as of September 18). Data: University of Maryland (GLAD), Amazon Conservation Association/MAAP. Image courtesy of MAAP. This year, Mongabay reported on forest loss driven by illegal logging, palm oil, mining, roads, and some unlikely offenders, including açaí (the fruit in your smoothie bowl) and ayahuasca. Most of the deforestation in Brazil was clustered around roads. Satellite-based mapping of seven of Brazil’s nine Amazonian states shows the “terrifying” progression of logging toward the core of the Amazon. Experts say that lack of transparency around logging makes it difficult to determine how much of that logging is illegal. And so did the fires After the slash comes the burn. Fires don’t occur naturally in the Amazon, but are set deliberately to clear felled trees and plants, making way for crops and cattle. Overall, 76% of Amazon&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/mongabays-top-amazon-stories-from-2021/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-251254</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘On the map’: App shines light on 5,000 ‘invisible’ families in Brazil’s Cerrado and beyond</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/on-the-map-app-shines-light-on-5000-invisible-families-in-brazils-cerrado/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Sep 2021 22:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Sax]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation and Religion and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Cerrado, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Controversial, Culture, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Politics, Social Justice, Soy, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[Traditional people and communities are vital to conserving biodiversity, but many are still absent from official maps. A new report highlights progress made in making them visible.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thousands of families from traditional communities in Brazil have finally been granted visibility through a digital mapping platform that’s allowed them to demarcate their lands, according to a new report released at the global conservation congress being held this week in Marseille, France. The report, presented Sept. 9 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, highlights the first results from the Tô No Mapa app, which shines a light on more than 5,000 families in 76 communities from 23 Brazilian states, whose territories amount to 350,000 hectares (865,000 acres) that, until now, have gone unrecognized on official government maps. “It looks like a small number but it shows a huge gap between the official data of the state agency and the first results of the mobile app,” Suzanne Scaglia, a technical adviser with the Brazilian civil society organization Institute for Society, Population, and Nature (ISPN), one of the organizations behind the app, said in a phone interview from the congress in Marseille. Babassu coconut breakers are one of many traditional communities who have lived off the unique diversity and richness of the Brazilian savanna and whose livelihoods are increasingly threatened by agricultural conflicts. Image courtesy of Peter Caton/Institute for Society, Population, and Nature (ISPN). The platform, launched in October 2020, also allows communities to list significant points of interest and conflict, according to the ISPN. In Brazil, there are dozens of different kinds of traditional peoples and communities recognized by law, but to differing degrees. While Indigenous peoples and Quilombola communities&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/on-the-map-app-shines-light-on-5000-invisible-families-in-brazils-cerrado/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-247013</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Under assault at home, Indigenous leaders get a violent welcome in Brasília</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/under-assault-at-home-indigenous-leaders-get-a-violent-welcome-in-brasilia/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jun 2021 03:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda Wenzel]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Mining, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was not easy for Munduruku Indigenous leaders to leave their reserve in Jacareacanga, in northern Pará state, and get to Brazil&#8217;s federal capital, Brasília, to join a huge protest against ongoing anti-Indigenous measures in the National Congress. And it was not only due to the 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) that separate both cities. In [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was not easy for Munduruku Indigenous leaders to leave their reserve in Jacareacanga, in northern Pará state, and get to Brazil&#8217;s federal capital, Brasília, to join a huge protest against ongoing anti-Indigenous measures in the National Congress. And it was not only due to the 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) that separate both cities. In their first attempt to undertake the journey, on June 10, their bus was reportedly attacked by illegal miners who slashed the vehicle&#8217;s tires and threatened the driver. &#8220;The garimpeiros [illegal miners] knew we were coming to claim for their expulsion from our reserve, so they barred our entourage and threatened us,&#8221; Ediene Kirixi Munduruku, a female Munduruku leader, told Mongabay in a phone interview. They finally managed to join more than 800 other Indigenous people from all over the country in Brasília five days later, after the Federal Public Ministry demanded a police escort to protect the convoy. Once in the capital, however, the group faced yet more violence, this time from government security forces. The confrontation happened on June 22 near the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil’s lower house of Congress. That’s where a bill that would remove several Indigenous rights, called PL 490, was under deliberation in one of the commissions. The legislative session was suspended due to the confrontation, but was resumed on June 23, when the commission approved the bill. It will now go to a voted before a plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies and, if it passes, to the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/under-assault-at-home-indigenous-leaders-get-a-violent-welcome-in-brasilia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-244044</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Brazil’s most Indigenous city, prejudice and diversity go hand in hand</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/in-brazils-most-indigenous-city-prejudice-and-diversity-go-hand-in-hand/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jun 2021 19:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ana Amelia Hamdan]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous people in Brazilian cities and Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cities, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law, Law Enforcement, Protests, Rainforests, Regulations, Religions, Saving Rainforests, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Traditional People, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[In São Gabriel da Cachoeira, a municipality in northern Amazonas state, the traditions and culture of 32 ethnic groups are the hallmarks of a daily life rich in diversity. But even here, traditional peoples face discrimination.]]>
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							<![CDATA[SÃO GABRIEL DA CACHOEIRA, Brazil — Using the selfie camera on her phone as a mirror, Penha Góes Figueiredo Yanomami applies red paint on her face. It’s a tradition inherited from her people, the Indigenous Yanomami of the Amazon; the paint is called urucum in the Tupi language, and comes from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana). It’s usually used on festive days in her village, but this time, Penha Yanomami, 44, is painting her face while sitting in a hammock at the Yanomami support house in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, a municipality in the northwest of Brazil’s Amazonas state. Lying on the banks of the Rio Negro, this town of 46,000 inhabitants is known as Brazil’s most Indigenous municipality. Life in an urban setting hasn’t distanced Penha Yanomami from her people&#8217;s traditions, and the urucum on her skin reaffirms the ancestral habits. Born in the village of Maturacá, in the Yanomami Indigenous Reserve about 140 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Penha Yanomami works today as a health agent for the Indigenous health board that covers the Upper Rio Negro region. She has lived in São Gabriel da Cachoeira for a year and a half now, since it’s the closest urban center to the community she serves, and in her spare time she visits the support house reserved for the Yanomami. Penha Góes Figueiredo Yanomami applies red paint, called urucum, on her face. Life in an urban setting hasn’t distanced Penha from her people&#8217;s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/in-brazils-most-indigenous-city-prejudice-and-diversity-go-hand-in-hand/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/with-indigenous-rights-at-stake-in-brasilia-a-territory-is-attacked-in-paraty/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jun 2021 22:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ana Ionova]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Mining, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[As lawmakers tussle over the future of Indigenous land rights in Brazil’s capital, Indigenous people in a municipality in Rio de Janeiro state are fighting off attacks and threats by settlers who reject their ancestral land rights over a territory being processed for official recognition. Indigenous people in the Tekohá Dje’y territory in Paraty, a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As lawmakers tussle over the future of Indigenous land rights in Brazil’s capital, Indigenous people in a municipality in Rio de Janeiro state are fighting off attacks and threats by settlers who reject their ancestral land rights over a territory being processed for official recognition. Indigenous people in the Tekohá Dje’y territory in Paraty, a municipality a four-hour drive from Rio’s capital, received death threats and heard gunshots in their village last week, according to a statement and interview with the group. The attacks came as the community — made up of 40 Indigenous people from the Guarani Mbyá and Nhandeva ethnicities — blocked off the entrance to the reserve in a peaceful protest over the alleged theft of an identification plaque installed to mark the territory, according to Indigenous leaders. During the confrontation, Neusa Kunhã Takua Porã, deputy hief of the Indigenous village, said there were attempts to run her nephew over with a car while she was threatened with arrest. According to Neusa Porã, military police were on the scene but did not stop the attacks. “At night, the attackers come around our homes in the village, they fire shots,” Neusa Porã told Mongabay in a phone interview. “We&#8217;ve been assaulted, verbally and physically. It’s extremely dangerous for us.” The Tekohá Dje’y territory was officially recognized in 2017 but is still in the process of being fully demarcated. Indigenous residents say they face constant attacks by land grabbers, real estate speculators and farmers who do not recognize their&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/with-indigenous-rights-at-stake-in-brasilia-a-territory-is-attacked-in-paraty/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-243877</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indigenous in Brasília: The fight for rights in Brazil’s power base</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/indigenous-in-brasilia-the-fight-for-rights-in-brazils-power-base/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 May 2021 18:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Leticia Casado]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation and Indigenous people in Brazilian cities]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conflict, Culture, Environment, Ethnocide, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Protests, Regulations, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Traditional People, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Twenty-four years ago, an Indigenous leader was set on fire and killed in Brazil’s capital as a “joke.” Today, little seems to have changed, say Indigenous people living in Brasília. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[BRASÍLIA — In April 1997, Brazil’s capital was the site of the brutal murder of an Indigenous leader. Galdino Jesus dos Santos, 44, was in Brasília for demonstrations demanding the demarcation of the territory of his Pataxó-Hã-Hã-Hãe people, in northeastern Bahia state. On the night of April 20, having been locked out of his boarding house after a late meeting, he slept at a bus stop. Five young men from well-off families saw him there alone. They doused him in gasoline and set him on fire. Galdino died hours later in hospital with burns to 95% of his body. It was a &#8220;joke,&#8221; his assailants would later tell police. A federal judge agreed, clearing four of them of murder charges and sentencing the fifth, 17 at the time, to three years in juvenile detention on the lesser charge of bodily harm. Two of the assailants were the sons of judges themselves. Twenty-four years later, Indigenous people living in Brasília still report prejudice and violence against them. Born in an Indigenous village in Amazonas state, Īrémirí Tukano says he experienced countless episodes of violence and discrimination since moving to Brasília 13 years ago. But one in particular hurt him deeply, he says. It was in 2012, and he was working as an intern at the Ministry of Culture. &#8220;I was delivering a document and a public servant asked me if I was Indigenous. I said yes. And he said: &#8216;What are you doing here? You should go back to the bush.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/indigenous-in-brasilia-the-fight-for-rights-in-brazils-power-base/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil court orders illegal miners booted from Yanomami Indigenous Reserve</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/brazil-court-orders-illegal-miners-booted-from-yanomami-indigenous-reserve/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 May 2021 16:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Mining, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[After a week of violent clashes with illegal gold miners in Roraima state, the Yanomami people’s calls for federal help have remained unanswered. The government will incur daily fines of 1 million reais ($189,000) if the delay exceeds June 5.]]>
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							<![CDATA[A court in Brazil has ordered the federal government to remove all illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reserve in the Amazon, following at least five days of attacks and intimidation by miners on a local community. However, the government has still not complied with the May 17 ruling. The Federal Police told Mongabay that a team of 10 agents will arrive at the village May 21 to collect data for further investigation, and may stay for several days. William Silva, the head of communications at the Army’s Jungle Infantry Brigade in Roraima, told Mongabay that an army aircraft is being prepared, but could not provide further details. The court also imposed a daily fine of 1 million reais ($189,000) if Brazilian authorities do not present and execute a plan to protect the Indigenous communities and shut down the hundreds of illegal mining operations in the Yanomami Indigenous Reserve within 20 days. “The population of non-Indigenous miners has almost surpassed that of the Indigenous peoples,” Judge Felipe Flores Viana, of the federal court in Roraima state, where the reserve is located, said in his decision. “It is increasingly difficult to dispel the configuration of the crime of genocide, as only 26,780 Yanomami are alive among 8 billion human beings and are tending toward extinction.” Fewer than 27,000 Yanomami live in some 250 villages in the Portugal-sized reserve, officially demarcated by the Brazilian government in 1992. The territory has been invaded by an estimated 20,000 wildcat miners in the last two&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/brazil-court-orders-illegal-miners-booted-from-yanomami-indigenous-reserve/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Amazônia must live on’: Photographer Sebastião Salgado returns home with his new book</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/amazonia-must-live-on-photographer-sebastiao-salgado-returns-home-with-his-new-book/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 May 2021 06:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Peter Speetjens]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Logging, Pasture, Photos, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado traveled the Amazon for six years to capture nature and the people of the world’s largest rainforest, now depicted in his new book, Amazônia.  ]]>
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							<![CDATA[&nbsp; Cover of Amazônia. The book is published by Taschen in May and listed at $150 (Hardcover, 35.8 x 26 cm, 4.19 kg, 528 pages). &nbsp; Having photographed people and landscapes in more than 100 countries, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has returned to the country of his birth for his latest book, Amazônia, which is at once an ode to the beauty of the world’s largest rainforest and a cry for its preservation. For six years, Salgado, now 77, traveled the Amazon to portray its trees, rivers, mountains, forests and people in his trademark black-and-white style in an attempt to capture the heart and soul of a region that for many people, both in and outside Brazil, remains the great unknown. “For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on Earth,” Salgado writes in the foreword. “Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world’s largest single natural laboratory.” Over more than 500 pages, Amazônia offers a wide mix of images, from aerial photography to intimate portraits, which, thanks to Salgado’s eye for light, drama and detail, turn into still lifes of a timeless quality. Zo’é men in the Zo’é Indigenous Territory, in the state of Pará. Image by Sebastião Salgado. So we see the Maiá River meandering through the land like a vein of silver, towering cloud formations like castles in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/amazonia-must-live-on-photographer-sebastiao-salgado-returns-home-with-his-new-book/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>After gold miners shoot Yanomani people, Brazil cuts environmental regulation further</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/after-gold-miners-shoot-yanomani-people-brazil-cuts-environmental-regulation-further/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 May 2021 22:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Mining, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[While Yanomami people were under attack by illegal gold miners with automatic weapons for the third time this week in northern Roraima state, Brazil’s Lower House approved a bill that exempts environmental impact assessments and licensing for development projects, further endangering the country’s ecosystems and traditional communities. 
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							<![CDATA[While Yanomami people were under attack by illegal gold miners with automatic weapons for the third time this week in northern Roraima state, Brazil’s Lower House approved a bill that exempts environmental impact assessments and licensing for development projects, further endangering the country’s ecosystems and traditional communities. With 300 votes in favor and 122 against, Brazil’s Lower House passed the draft of a bill that withdraws environmental impact assessments and licensing for development projects, ranging from construction of roads to agriculture in the country. Bill PL 3.729/2004 would allow highways to be paved in the Amazon rainforest, for example, without any kind of environmental risk assessment and mitigation analysis, but rather just requiring a “self-licensing” declaration instead. The measure, which was submitted to the Senate for its appraisal, is backed by President Jair Bolsonaro and the powerful conservative agribusiness lobby — the so-called ‘ruralistas’ — who say it is a way to slash environmental licensing red tape and facilitate infrastructure projects. Congressmen, experts and activists opposing it are convinced the new legal framework will inevitably fast-track approval of high-risk projects, leading to deforestation and the escalation of violence against traditional communities. “The bill is a harsh attack on the environment and the image of our country abroad. A shameful setback,” said federal deputy Alessandro Molon on his Twitter account after the voting session, calling it “a disaster.” One of the many illegal gold mining sites in the Yanomami reserve. Image courtesy of Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency (Funai) And they have&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/after-gold-miners-shoot-yanomani-people-brazil-cuts-environmental-regulation-further/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous in Salvador: A struggle for identity in Brazil&#8217;s first capital</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/indigenous-in-salvador-a-struggle-for-identity-in-brazil-first-capital/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 May 2021 15:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alexandre Lyrio]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation and Indigenous people in Brazilian cities]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law, Law Enforcement, LGBTQIA+, Mongabay investigation, Protests, Rainforests, Regulations, Religions, Research, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Traditional People, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the land where their ancestors once lived, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilians band together in the face of hostility to preserve their cultures and traditions in the capital of Bahia state]]>
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							<![CDATA[SALVADOR, Brazil — Leaning on the balcony railing at her rickety house, perched above the stairs and alleys of a poor community in Salvador, capital of Brazil’s Bahia state, Vanessa Braz da Conceição looks up at the night sky. For this 35-year-old pharmacy student, it’s her way of connecting with nature amid the city’s concrete jungle. “I spend hours here, enjoying my relationship with them,” she says of the sun, the moon and the stars. Vanessa is a member of the Pataxó Indigenous people from the Coroa Vermelha region in the far south of the state, and stargazing keeps her connected to her origins. From the window of the simple home where she lives alone, the mass of concrete houses couldn’t represent a more striking contrast to her native village, which is close to the city of ​​Porto Seguro, a 10-hour drive south along the Atlantic coast from Salvador. Porto Seguro is also where the first European colonizers set foot in what is today Brazil, back in 1500; Salvador is where they established their first capital city. “Every Indigenous person has a strong connection with nature,” Vanessa says. She adds there’s also beauty in the urban scene, like the buildings in the background of the massive valley of common houses that make up the community where she lives, in the heart of Salvador’s Federação district. It’s a place with a rugged geography, full of slopes and steps, like much of the metropolis. “I prefer nature, but the city is also&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/indigenous-in-salvador-a-struggle-for-identity-in-brazil-first-capital/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Karipuna people sue Brazil government for alleged complicity in land grabs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/karipuna-people-sue-brazil-government-for-alleged-complicity-in-land-grabs/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 May 2021 16:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle, Conservation, Controversial, Corruption, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Logging, Pasture, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[An unprecedented lawsuit by an Indigenous group that was once nearly wiped out seeks $8.2 million in damages for continued invasions and destruction of their territory]]>
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							<![CDATA[Leaders of the Karipuna Indigenous people are suing the Brazilian government for its allegedly complicity in failing to stop illegal logging, invasions and land grabbing in their territory. The unprecedented lawsuit was filed May 4 and names the federal government and the state government of Rondônia as respondents. The Karipuna are seeking 44 million reais ($8.2 million) in damages, as well as the right to permanent protection and the cancellation of all outsider land claims on their reserve, which was demarcated 1998. “We decided to dig deeper after so many [unsuccessful] reports to the authorities in the last years. We wanted to know what was really going on,” André Karipuna, one of the group’s chiefs, told Mongabay from his remote village in the heart of Rondônia. “We found that the state government was allowing people to declare plots on the Rural Environmental Registry. This is why we think the invasions aren’t stopping.” Indigenous leader Adriano Karipuna addresses the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in late April, where he accused the Bolsonaro administration of attempting to legalize the invasion of Indigenous lands. On May 5, he and fellow Indigenous leaders filed a lawsuit against the government accusing it of complicity in land grabs of the Karipuna Indigenous Reserve. Image by David Azevedo/Greenpeace. Under Brazilian law, citizens can stake a claim to land under the 2012 registry, better known by its Portuguese acronym, CAR, which was designed to make it easier to pinpoint responsibility for deforestation and other environmental crimes. Environmental&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/karipuna-people-sue-brazil-government-for-alleged-complicity-in-land-grabs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil’s Bolsonaro vowed to work with Indigenous people. Now he’s investigating them</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/brazils-bolsonaro-vowed-to-work-with-indigenous-people-now-hes-investigating-them/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 May 2021 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Corruption, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[At least two top Indigenous leaders in Brazil, Sônia Guajajara and Almir Suruí, were recently summoned for questioning by the federal police over allegations of slander against the government of President Jair Bolsonaro.]]>
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							<![CDATA[A week since the Climate Leaders Summit, where Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to work with Indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon, his government is being accused of acting to intimidate them. At least two prominent Indigenous leaders in the country have recently been summoned for police questioning for criticizing the government, raising concerns from human rights organizations, politicians, celebrities and academics about Bolsonaro’s abuse of power and the undermining of freedom of expression. Sônia Guajajara, one of the top Brazilian Indigenous activists and head of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) — the country’s main Indigenous association — was called on April 26 to appear before the federal police to testify in a probe for allegedly &#8220;slandering&#8221; Bolsonaro’s government. &#8220;The persecution by this government is unacceptable and absurd. They will not silence us,&#8221; Guajajara said on an April 30 Twitter post. Sônia Guajajara, one of the top Brazilian Indigenous activists and head of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) — the country’s main Indigenous association — was called on April 26 to appear before the federal police to testify in a probe for allegedly &#8220;slandering&#8221; Bolsonaro’s government. Image by APIB Guajajara added the case was connected to an investigation into the Maracá web series, released last year by APIB, which strongly criticizes government policies toward Indigenous peoples, particularly Bolsonaro&#8217;s widely assailed handling of the COVID-19 crisis. The complaints were also submitted to Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court, which ruled in favor of the Indigenous groups, determining&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/brazils-bolsonaro-vowed-to-work-with-indigenous-people-now-hes-investigating-them/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/indigenous-in-sao-paulo-erased-by-a-colonial-education-curriculum/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Apr 2021 15:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jennifer Ann Thomas]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation, Indigenous people in Brazilian cities, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Investigation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law, Law Enforcement, Mongabay investigation, Protests, Rainforests, Regulations, Religions, Research, Saving Rainforests, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Traditional People, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Brazil's biggest city, descendants of the original inhabitants live in invisibility and struggle to keep their traditions despite São Paulo’s celebrated cultural diversity]]>
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							<![CDATA[SÃO PAULO — Emerson de Oliveira Souza is among the more than 4 million inhabitants of Tiradentes, a city that makes up part of the conurbation of São Paulo, Brazil’s biggest metropolis. Souza is a school teacher, but he stands out from the vast majority of the 151,000 public school teachers in São Paulo because he’s one of the only Indigenous people to teach in the suburbs. A Guarani Nhandeva native, Souza says the classroom itself (which in the pandemic has gone online) helps perpetuate a pervasive ignorance within Brazil about its own native peoples. He says the country’s educational model is one of the causes of the invisibility and exclusion of Indigenous peoples in cities. At 47 and about to complete his master&#8217;s degree from the University of São Paulo (USP), Souza says the school curriculum is a continuation of European colonization. To reverse this process, he says, the facts should also be taught from an Indigenous perspective. “We don&#8217;t know the history. It is as if we entered the school to continue the work of the Portuguese caravels, but today the caravels are different,” he says. Souza’s path to an academic chair was not an easy one. “I am privileged to have finished my studies. At the university, we are not Indigenous, we are the poor from the periphery. We get in like everybody else, we become scholarship holders and from that point on we will have other opportunities,” he says. The concrete jungle of São Paulo, with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/indigenous-in-sao-paulo-erased-by-a-colonial-education-curriculum/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city</title>
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					<pubDate>12 Apr 2021 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation, Indigenous people in Brazilian cities, and Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law, Law Enforcement, Mongabay investigation, Protests, Rainforests, Regulations, Religions, Research, Saving Rainforests, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Traditional People, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay starts publishing today a series of data-driven multimedia stories on Brazil’s Indigenous people living in urban areas, including the metropolitan centers of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília, showing that Indigenous people are much closer to most Brazilians than they realize]]>
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							<![CDATA[This article is available in Portuguese here: view part two the series here and part three here. RIO DE JANEIRO — During a presentation for Indigenous People’s Week, celebrated in April in Brazil, at his son’s elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, the first thing sociologist José Carlos Matos Pereira did was to show a photo of several individuals and ask the children, “What do you think, are they Indigenous?” The children immediately answered in unison: “No.” He asked why, and they responded, “They are not naked; they do not have a bow and arrow and they are not in the forest; so, they are not Indigenous.” The episode, centering on a picture of Indigenous people from the city of Altamira in the Amazonian state of Pará, is just a snapshot of the reality faced by Indigenous people living in urban areas throughout Brazil. “This marks a perception since a child as one thinks of Indigenous people [as being] outside the city and in conditions of, shall we say, ‘natural,’” Pereira, a researcher at the Social Movements Memory Program, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), told Mongabay. “The Indigenous hunt, fish, live in the forest, have their way of life, their rituals. But he also comes to the city … And when he comes, he brings with him a way of life.” In fact, contrary to popular belief, Indigenous people are scattered all over Brazil and not just in the Amazon Rainforest and remote rural areas. More&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/we-are-made-invisible-brazils-indigenous-on-prejudice-in-the-city/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/2020-fires-endangering-uncontacted-amazon-indigenous-groups/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2020 16:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Ethnocide, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forests, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Logging, Murdered Activists, Overfishing, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Deforestation, Uncontacted Tribes, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon fires are burning this year within the protected lands inhabited by isolated uncontacted Indigenous peoples. The fires, largely illegal and intentionally set by land grabbers, ranchers and farmers, are often utilized as a deforestation tool — clearing land for timber, beef and soy production. The fires can deprive these forest peoples of their homes [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon fires are burning this year within the protected lands inhabited by isolated uncontacted Indigenous peoples. The fires, largely illegal and intentionally set by land grabbers, ranchers and farmers, are often utilized as a deforestation tool — clearing land for timber, beef and soy production. The fires can deprive these forest peoples of their homes and subsistence livelihoods, forcing them off their ancestral lands. Uncontacted Indigenous groups, which may be more accurately described as “Indigenous people in voluntary isolation” still exist in all nine of Amazonia’s countries, but are most concentrated in Brazil, where at least one hundred Indigenous groups are known to live with no regular outside contact. An &#8216;uncontacted&#8217; tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in 2011. These groups may be more accurately described as &#8220;in voluntary isolation.&#8221; Some are known to have historically traded with other Indigenous groups, explaining their possession of metal tools.  © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI. Map showing the general areas of uncontacted tribes in South America. Screenshot from Uncontactedtribes.org. Imagery ©2020 NASA/TerraMetrics. According to Survival International’s (Survival) senior researcher Sarah Shenker, Survival has been receiving reports of fires from contacted Indigenous people in territories neighboring these uncontacted groups. “We get updates regularly from [contacted] Indigenous people by WhatsApp and other means,” Shenker said. “They&#8217;re telling us about the fires, where the fires are, how bad they are, and whether or not they&#8217;ve managed to put them out.” Survival can verify these alerts using apps that draw upon satellite data from Brazil’s National Space Agency (INPE) and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/2020-fires-endangering-uncontacted-amazon-indigenous-groups/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/life-as-an-amazon-activist-i-dont-want-to-be-the-next-dorothy-stang/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jul 2020 16:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Peter Speetjens]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Dams, Endangered Environmentalists, Energy, Environment, Ethnocide, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Infrastructure, Land Grabbing, Land Use Change, Nonviolence, Protests, Public Health, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Juma Xipaya, a young indigenous woman, medical student and fierce activist, fought the Belo Monte dam and exposed corruption; now she lives in daily terror of two thugs in a white pickup. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Pimental dam, part of the Belo Monte hydroelectric project which met with intense international and indigenous resistance. Image courtesy of Palácio do Planalto on Visual hunt / CC BY. In November 2019, a large group of angry Brazilian landowners and farmers, some of them armed, disrupted the “Amazon: Center of the World” international conference in Altamira, Brazil. The moment tilted precariously toward violence when a young indigenous woman stood up, took the microphone and made a passionate plea for all to safeguard the Amazon. “Her name — to remember and protect — is Juma Xipaya,” wrote journalist Eliane Brum of that day. “It was very tense,” recalls Xipaya, a 28-year old medical student as she speaks to Mongabay outside her school, the Federal University of Pará in Altamira. “When I was about to speak, one man came very close and shouted that we all deserve to die. And after the conference there was a big guy outside, screaming that ‘Indians do not exist!’ The police were there, but didn’t do anything.” Event organizers, deciding on the side of safety, arranged a hotel room that night for Xipaya, and she stayed with friends for the next week instead of going home. That’s nothing new. Xipaya is no stranger to danger. As a young activist and cacica (an indigenous spokesperson and leader), she came out fiercely against the $11 billion Belo Monte mega-dam and the massive corruption that financed its construction. She has since received numerous threats and survived one nearly&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/life-as-an-amazon-activist-i-dont-want-to-be-the-next-dorothy-stang/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/brazils-indigenous-hit-especially-hard-by-covid-19-why-so-vulnerable/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Jun 2020 17:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Ethnocide, Governance, Green, Health, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Pandemics, Poverty, Public Health, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[More than 3,660 indigenous people are infected, with many elders dead. Analysts suggest the rising toll may be driven by deep poverty, and the undermining of traditional cultures and overall health by modern intrusions.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Coronavirus continues its deadly spread across Brazil with 1.1 million cases confirmed and 52,725 deaths, as of 24 June. The country has become the second nation, after the U.S., to register more than 50,000 deaths, even as leadership underplays the mounting crisis. As anticipated, indigenous communities are showing particular vulnerability, though the pandemic’s full impact isn’t yet clear in remote Amazonia. The Coordination of Indigenous Organizations in the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), says it has reliable information that the virus has infected 78 indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon and that among 45 of these indigenous peoples, 3,662 individuals have been infected and 249 have died. COIAB doesn’t have trustworthy data for the remaining 33 peoples, it says. COIAB fears too, that due to underreporting, the overall toll is far higher than these figures suggest. Arnold Schwarzenegger and José Carlos Ferreira, a leader of the Arara people. Image courtesy o Globo. Indigenous leaders fall at high rate to pandemic As Mongabay reported on 9 June, a disproportionate number of indigenous leaders are falling victim to the pandemic (with nine Munduruku elders dead by 7 June). More leaders, among far-flung peoples, have died since. These losses include Paulo Paiakan, aged 66, from the Kayapó people in southern Pará state. Paiakan played an important role nationally in getting indigenous rights enshrined in the 1988 Constitution, drawn up in the progressive euphoria that swept Brazil when the country returned to civil rule after 25 years of military dictatorship. He also helped bring international&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/brazils-indigenous-hit-especially-hard-by-covid-19-why-so-vulnerable/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/every-time-an-elder-dies-a-library-is-burnt-amazon-covid-19-toll-grows/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Jun 2020 12:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Ethnocide, Governance, Green, Health, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Pandemics, Public Health, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest peoples in the Brazilian Amazon rely on their elders as key decision makers and culture keepers; COVID-19 is already killing indigenous elders at a high rate. All fear worse lies ahead.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Munduruku indigenous elder Acelino Dace died of COVID-19 at age 77 on 3 June. Image by Bruna Rocha / El Pais. Alessandra Korap’s voice breaks when she lists five Munduruku indigenous elders living along the Tapajós River, a tributary of the Amazon. Between 9 May and 2 June, Angélico Yori (aged 76), Raimundo Dace (70), Jerônimo Manhuary (86), Vicente Saw Munduruku (71), and Amâncio Ikon Munduruku (59) died — all victims of COVID-19. Since then another four have passed, including Acelino Dace (77). The loss in a matter of days of nine elders — leaders and keepers of the Munduruku culture — is a huge blow for a people only numbering around 14,000. Amâncio Ikon Munduruku was a teacher and respected leader. He played a vital role in the Munduruku’s momentous decision — in the face of decades of delay by Brazil’s government — to mark out the boundaries of their own territory beside the Tapajós River. This show of indigenous strength was crucial in the government’s 2016 decision to abandon plans to build the São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric mega-dam, which would have flooded part of the now fully measured Munduruku territory. While grieving the loss of dearly loved elders, the Munduruku are now also coping with the irreparable loss to their culture. “Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt,” Bruna Rocha, a lecturer in archaeology at the Federal University of Western Pará, tells Mongabay. She is quoting Amadou Hampaté Bâ, a renowned intellectual from Mali in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/every-time-an-elder-dies-a-library-is-burnt-amazon-covid-19-toll-grows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil judge blocks appointment of missionary to indigenous agency</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/brazil-judge-blocks-appointment-of-missionary-to-indigenous-agency/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 May 2020 11:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sam Cowie]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation and Religion]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Christianity, Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Pandemics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Religions, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ricardo Lopes Dias, an anthropologist and Christian Evangelical pastor, appointed to head Brazil’s isolated indigenous tribes department, has been removed due to a “conflict of interest”]]>
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							<![CDATA[This isolated uncontacted indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon is clearly hostile to the helicopter hovering overhead. Photo credit: TravelingMan on VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND. Indigenous leaders and advocates in Brazil are celebrating a judge’s decision to block the controversial appointment of an Evangelical missionary to oversee protection of isolated tribes in the country’s Amazon states. In February 2020, in a move that drew outcry from domestic and international observers, Ricardo Lopes Dias, an anthropologist and Evangelical pastor, was picked to head the isolated and recently contacted tribes department at Brazil’s indigenous agency FUNAI, giving him access to detailed information on more than 100 registered isolated groups. Evangelical Christians and religious lawmakers form a significant political support base for President Jair Bolsonaro who has repeatedly called for indigenous reserves to be reduced and opened up for agribusiness and mining. The appointment was“nothing more than a plan to please Evangelical fundamentalists who make up the government’s base,” said Beto Marubo, president of the Javari Valley Indigenous Peoples Union, an organization that had called for, and helped organize for, Dias’ departure. The Javari Valley Indigenous Reserve, Amazonas state. Indigenous advocates fear that Evangelical missionaries will continue trying to contact and convert isolated groups to Christianity. Image courtesy of FUNAI. Last Thursday, appellate judge Antonio Souza Prudente overturned the nomination of Dias at the request of Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office that warned of possible “genocide” and “ethnocide” — the destruction of a people’s culture — if missionary groups had access to sensitive data&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/brazil-judge-blocks-appointment-of-missionary-to-indigenous-agency/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As their land claim stalls, Brazil’s Munduruku face pressure from soybean farms</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/as-their-land-claim-stalls-brazils-munduruku-face-pressure-from-soybean-farms/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 May 2020 07:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Caio de Freitas Paes]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Flooding, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Religions, Rivers, Saving Rainforests, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some 600 indigenous people have seen their crops die due to the expansion of agribusiness in the state of Pará, Brazil. The streams used by the Munduruku have also been damaged, if not dried up. 
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							<![CDATA[SANTARÉM, Brazil — The landscape near the indigenous Munduruku villages of Santarém, in Brazil’s Pará state, has changed much over the past 20 years. What was once an immense plain in the heart of the Amazon, the humid home to dense forests full of delicacies like açaí and pupunha palms, has been transformed into a green desert. The forest has been successively logged, thanks to the arrival of soybean farming. In 2017, the municipality’s harvest was the largest in a decade, consolidating the takeover of what is called the Santarém Plain. The expansion of agribusiness has had grave consequences for the indigenous people living there. They say their villages are constantly poisoned by pesticides, used on crops without any controls. “We can smell [the pesticides], it ruins our lunch,” Luciene Sousa, who lives in the village of Açaizal, told the Indigenous Missionary Council, a Catholic Church-affiliated organization, in November 2019. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is monitoring the situation, the spraying occurs less than 10 meters (33 feet) from the indigenous homes and farms. The agency says that “necessary safety measures have not been adopted [by the farmers] in the [pesticide] spraying areas.” It also reports the silting of streams in the area, a current complaint of the indigenous people. The history of the Munduruku people is marked by delays in demarcating their reservation, land grabbing, and violent repression by farmers. Land cleared by use for soybean farming in Munduruku territory. Image by Arthur Massuda/CIMI. Clouds of pesticides,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/as-their-land-claim-stalls-brazils-munduruku-face-pressure-from-soybean-farms/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Evicted indigenous people in Manaus struggle to stay safe amid COVID-19 crisis</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/evicted-indigenous-people-in-manaus-struggle-to-stay-safe-amid-covid-19-crisis/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Apr 2020 14:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ignacio Amigo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, COVID-19, Culture, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some 400 indigenous people displaced from an informal settlement in Manaus have struggled to make a living amid scarce jobs and limited income sources during the COVID-19 crisis. The capital of Amazonas state, Manaus accounts for Brazil’s fourth-highest number of deaths due to COVID-19; authorities warn that the state’s health system is close to its limit.]]>
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							<![CDATA[For three years, Anne Kokama made a living on a small piece of land where she planted cassava and other vegetables in Monte Horebe, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon. A few banana trees and some poultry she raised also helped her provide food every day for her family. “Having a plot of land, indigenous people can live anywhere,” she says. She also made some money working as a beautician for a few regular customers in the neighborhood. But this scenario changed completely in the past two months, when all 2,000 Monte Horebe residents, including 400 indigenous people from 30 different ethnicities, according to local newspaper A Critica, were displaced by the Amazonas state government in connection with drug trafficking allegations in the area, despite previous promises to regularize their occupation. “We don’t have a job, we almost have nothing to eat in our homes,” says Anne, who is a single mother and now lives in a rented apartment in the north of the city with two of her three children. She says she lived all her life in Manaus’s urban area, but moved to Monte Horebe to escape from an abusive relationship. Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT) via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). Monte Horebe was created in 2015 after squatters cleared and occupied a large patch of rainforest some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from downtown Manaus, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/evicted-indigenous-people-in-manaus-struggle-to-stay-safe-amid-covid-19-crisis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-229620</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/fight-against-amazon-destruction-at-stake-after-enforcement-chief-fired/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/fight-against-amazon-destruction-at-stake-after-enforcement-chief-fired/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Apr 2020 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sam Cowie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Corruption, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Logging, Mining, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA has stepped up efforts to fight environmental crimes during the COVID-19 crisis. But the fate of these operations is now uncertain, following the firing of IBAMA’s enforcement director.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has stepped up efforts to fight environmental crimes during the COVID-19 crisis amid concerns that loggers, land grabbers and illegal miners could infect indigenous populations. But the continuity of these operations is now uncertain, following the firing of IBAMA’s enforcement director, experts say. On April 19, celebrated as Brazil’s national indigenous day, the country’s flagship Sunday night news program, Fantástico, showed video of IBAMA enforcement missions destroying illegal mining equipment on indigenous reserves in Pará state, in the Amazon region. The program also detailed investigations of land-grabbing schemes on two indigenous reserves in Pará. It was the second week in a row that Fantástico broadcast images of IBAMA agents destroying illegal mining equipment in Pará, which insiders say led to the sacking of enforcement director Olivaldi Azevedo last week. “[He was fired] because he couldn’t stop the enforcement against it,” Elizabeth Uema, a former IBAMA employee and executive secretary of the National Association of Environmental Specialist Careers (ASCEMA), told Mongabay, adding that the dismissal was directly related to the success of the enforcement missions. IBAMA environmental agency agents on a raid of illegal logging and gold mining activities in the Amazon’s Jamanxim National Forest, where land thieves have occupied public lands. Image courtesy of IBAMA. President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly spoken out against enforcement teams destroying illegal mining equipment, and his ministers have met with representatives of the artisanal mining sector. Azevedo’s sacking was widely celebrated on dedicated Facebook pages and Whatsapp groups for illegal miners&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/fight-against-amazon-destruction-at-stake-after-enforcement-chief-fired/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/in-brazil-covid-19-outbreak-paves-way-for-invasion-of-indigenous-lands/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Apr 2020 16:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sam Cowie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation and Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, COVID-19, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Logging, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Logging, Mining, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, timber trade, Traditional People, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Invasions of indigenous reserves continue to escalate in the Brazilian Amazon amid the rapid spread of COVID-19 throughout the country, exposing how indigenous people are vulnerable to increased violence and infection amid a reduction in environmental oversight.]]>
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							<![CDATA[With outsider encroachment into indigenous reserves continuing to escalate in the Brazilian Amazon and the COVID-19 outbreak spreading rapidly throughout the country, indigenous people are increasingly vulnerable to both violence and infection. The threats are exacerbated by a reduction in environmental oversight by authorities due to social distancing restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic. Indigenous leaders and advocates told Mongabay they fear the situation will get worsen in the coming months as loggers, land grabbers and illegal miners take advantage of the coronavirus chaos to accelerate their attacks on indigenous territories, emboldened by President Jair Bolsonaro’s rhetoric and reports of a drop in enforcement activities. “These criminals won’t respect social distancing. Much the opposite: they will take advantage to be able to work more peacefully,” Antonio Oviedo, a monitoring coordinator at the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA), an NGO that defends indigenous rights, told Mongabay. Environmental enforcement authorities in Pará state near Belo Monte dam find stash of illegal wood. Image by Sam Cowie In Rondônia state, the epicenter of last year’s Amazon fires, members of the Karipuna indigenous people have submitted a complaint to the local Federal Prosecutor’s Office (MPF), reporting non-indigenous people clearing forest inside their reserve, less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the village where the group lives. The document was also signed by Brazil’s Indigenous Missionary Council, which is affiliated with the Catholic Church, and Greenpeace. “We are scared that one of these invaders will bring the virus inside our territory,” Adriano Karipuna, one of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/in-brazil-covid-19-outbreak-paves-way-for-invasion-of-indigenous-lands/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous Papuans initiate own lockdowns in face of COVID-19</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/indigenous-papuans-initiate-own-lockdowns-in-face-of-covid-19/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Apr 2020 11:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Southeast Asian infrastructure]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Papua, Southeast Asia, and West Papua]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Controversial, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Ethnocide, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Pesticides, Social Justice, Traditional People, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Papua region have imposed a sweeping lockdown to minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus. The region, which comprises the provinces of West Papua and Papua, is the least developed in Indonesia, with scant public health facilities, poor road connectivity, and the highest rates of maternal and infant [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Local authorities and indigenous communities in Indonesia’s Papua region have imposed a sweeping lockdown to minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus. The region, which comprises the provinces of West Papua and Papua, is the least developed in Indonesia, with scant public health facilities, poor road connectivity, and the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in the country. Faced with the challenge of containing a COVID-19 outbreak in these circumstances, the provincial governments have temporarily restricted air and sea traffic into the region, with the exception of the freight traffic. In the Papuan hinterland, indigenous communities have blocked road access into their villages for outsiders. There are fears that a COVID-19 outbreak here, particularly among the more than 300 indigenous tribes, could have a disastrous impact. The first case of infection among indigenous people has already occurred in the Brazilian Amazon. Members of an indigenous Papuan community close a road leading into their village. Image by Serilus Mariawasi for Mongabay. In Papua province, where the travel restriction came into force on March 26, Governor Lukas Enembe said a full closure could be implemented for three indigenous territories in the province: Lapago, Meepago and Animha. He said these communities were particularly “vulnerable” to infection. In West Papua, authorities followed with their own travel restriction on March 30. There were 28 confirmed COVID-19 infections across the two provinces as of April 6, with three deaths. The total for Indonesia was 2,491 cases and 209 deaths. Activists have welcomed the measures to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/indigenous-papuans-initiate-own-lockdowns-in-face-of-covid-19/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Calls for justice after latest murder of indigenous Guajajara leader in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/calls-for-justice-after-latest-murder-of-indigenous-guajajara-leader-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Apr 2020 10:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sam Cowie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Logging, Murdered Activists, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Zezico Rodrigues Guajarara, a teacher from the Arariboia indigenous reserve in Maranhão state, was found shot dead on March 31. He is the fifth Guajarara leader to be killed since November in the lawless frontier region dominated by powerful landowners and logging mafias. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous leaders and activists in Brazil are demanding justice after the latest murder of a Guajajara indigenous leader in Maranhão state on the eastern edge of the Amazon. Zezico Rodrigues Guajarara, a teacher from the Arariboia indigenous reserve, was found shot dead at lunchtime on March 31, his body riddled with shotgun wounds, on a dirt road near the village of Zutiwa where he lived with 1,000 Guajajara members, local media reported. He is the fifth Guajajara leader to be killed since November in the lawless frontier region that is dominated by powerful landowners and logging mafias. “What&#8217;s happening is very sad. It could have happened to me too,” indigenous leader Olímpio Iwyramu Guajajara told Mongabay. “I particularly feel very vulnerable in our territory.” The murder comes as many of Brazil&#8217;s indigenous communities across the country close access to villages to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The first case of COVID-19 among indigenous people was confirmed this week, raising concerns about the spread of the pandemic and its effects on native people. Olímpio Iwyramu Guajajara, the leader of the &#8220;Guardians of the Forest,&#8221; poses for a photo in front of the Arariboia sign that is all engraved by bullet marks, in Maranhão state, on Jan 30, 2019. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay Zezico was an outspoken supporter of “Guardians of the Forest,” a group of about 120 Guajajara formed in 2013 and led by Olímpio to combat logging gangs. In November last year, prominent member Paulo Paulino Guajajara was murdered. Like&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/calls-for-justice-after-latest-murder-of-indigenous-guajajara-leader-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>First COVID-19 case among indigenous people confirmed in Brazilian Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/first-covid-19-case-among-indigenous-people-confirmed-in-brazilian-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Apr 2020 16:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue BranfordThais Borges]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Ethnocide, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Pesticides, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[A 20-year-old Kokama indigenous woman in northern Amazonas state tested positive for COVID-19, the first case among indigenous people in Brazil. Experts fear the spread of the pandemic and its effects for native people, calling for urgent action from the government.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s Health Ministry confirmed on April 1 the first case of COVID-19 among indigenous people in the Amazon, raising concerns about the spread of the pandemic and its effects on native people. A 20-year-old Kokama indigenous woman in northern Amazonas state tested positive for the virus, according to SESAI, the federal government’s body in charge of health services for indigenous people in the country. The indigenous woman is a health agent and lives in the village of São José in the district of Santo Antônio do Içá, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the border with Colombia, according to news reports. She reportedly traveled to the upper Solimões River region on a routine health trip, and returned with a fever and pain in her head, throat and chest. On March 31 the Kokama woman posted this message on social media: “On March 18 I was with a colleague who later developed COVID-19 and three days later I developed a dry cough and lost my sense of taste and smell.” She is one of 27 people who are being monitored after being in contact with Dr. Matheus Feitosa, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, according to news reports. For many indigenous peoples, it takes more than 24 hours in a motorized canoe to reach the nearest hospital. The Federal Prosecutors Office issued a request to authorities make emergency transportation available for indigenous peoples during the coronavirus crisis. Image by Mauricio Torres for Mongabay. In a statement published by news portal G1,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/first-covid-19-case-among-indigenous-people-confirmed-in-brazilian-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/as-covid-19-rages-evangelical-pastor-may-contact-remote-amazon-tribes/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Mar 2020 16:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sam Cowie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Christianity, Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Pandemics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Religions, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Christian fundamentalist Andrew Tonkin is allegedly planning to contact and convert isolated Brazilian Amazon indigenous people, according to Marubo and Mayoruna indigenous leaders.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Andrew Tonkin of U.S. Baptist missionary organization Frontier International. Image found on facebook. As coronavirus cases spiral upward into the thousands in urban Brazil, indigenous leaders from one of the Amazon’s most remote frontiers have denounced what they say are the latest plans by a notorious U.S. missionary to contact and convert the region’s isolated tribal groups to Christianity — even though remote indigenous peoples are known to have little resistance against infectious disease. Complaints by Marubo and Mayoruna indigenous leaders were first published in O Globo last week, reporting that Andrew Tonkin, from North Carolina, USA, and a leader of the Baptist missionary group Frontier International, is planning a trip into Brazil’s vast Javari Valley Indigenous Reserve in Amazonas state near the border with Peru. “We heard that he was having meetings, preparing to try to go in again, that he was buying supplies,” Lucas Marubo told Mongabay; he is head of the Marubo Villages Organization of Rio Ituí (OAMI), and a member of the Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley Union (Univaja). “They are armed, have drones and GPS… a bunch of equipment to make contact… this is our fear,” he said. The Javari Valley is larger than the nation of Austria and protects the world’s highest number of isolated tribes. Sixteen of the 26 Javari Valley indigenous groups are peoples who have chosen to remain isolated. Yet, this is the second occasion in recent times that an evangelical group has been accused of planning contact and conversion&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/as-covid-19-rages-evangelical-pastor-may-contact-remote-amazon-tribes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-228422</doi>				</item>
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					<title>First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/first-possible-covid-19-indigenous-cases-detected-near-key-amazon-reserve/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Mar 2020 11:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue BranfordThais Borges]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Christianity, Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Pandemics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Religions, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[A supposed COVID-19 test for a possibly infected Marubo indigenous man in Atalaia do Norte — gateway to the vast Javari Valley Indigenous Territory — was never analyzed; so results remain unknown.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The city of Atalaia do Norte in Amazonas state, Brazil, where a Marubo indigenous man and members of his family showed possible signs of coronavirus infection. Image courtesy of Amazonas em Tempo. A Marubo indigenous man in Atalaia do Norte, Brazil, showed possible signs of coronavirus infection after coming in contact with a group of North Americans in Atalaia do Norte, the capital of a municipal district located on the border between Brazil, Peru and Colombia. The man was working as a tourist guide, and, according to Amazônia Real, visited a hospital feeling ill on Friday, 20 March. The man was told to isolate himself in a house he shares with 14 other indigenous people. Two of his daughters, aged 9 and 12, had a fever, cough and aches, commonly seen COVID-19 symptoms. The local health system lacked capacity for testing, so samples were supposedly being sent to Manaus, 1,138 kilometers (707 miles) away. However, Atalaia do Norte has no road contact with the rest of Brazil. It takes up to three days to travel to Manaus by boat, and planes (which can fly to Manaus in three hours) are currently grounded as part of the strategy to halt the pandemic’s spread. When questioned further about testing, Atalaia do Norte officials claimed that the samples had been sent instead to a laboratory in Tabatinga (Lafron) near the Colombian border, and that the results came back negative for coronavirus. However, a journalist from Amazônia Real checked with the laboratory, only to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/first-possible-covid-19-indigenous-cases-detected-near-key-amazon-reserve/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/bringing-christ-and-coronavirus-evangelicals-to-contact-amazon-indigenous/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Mar 2020 17:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Christianity, Conflict, Conservation, Controversial, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Culture, Diseases, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Pandemics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Religions, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ethnos360 missionaries have purchased a helicopter as part of a plan to contact and convert isolated Amazon indigenous groups, putting them at grave risk of deadly infectious disease.]]>
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							<![CDATA[This uncontacted indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon is clearly hostile to the helicopter hovering overhead. Photo credit: TravelingMan on VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND. Ethnos360, an evangelical Christian missionary group, is embarking on a controversial new project, just as the coronavirus begins spreading widely in Brazil. The organization, formerly known internationally as the New Tribes Mission, and based in Sanford, Florida, USA, plans to use a newly purchased aircraft to contact and convert isolated Amazon indigenous groups — even though such contact is banned explicitly by FUNAI, Brazil’s indigenous agency, and implicitly under the nation’s 1988 Constitution. The fundamentalist Christian group’s venture could also spread dangerous infectious diseases, like COVID-19, to isolated tribes utterly lacking resistance and immunity. At the end of January, Edward Luz, president of New Tribes Mission of Brazil, announced the acquisition of the “Ethnos360 Aviation R66 helicopter,” able to operate in the remote rainforests of Western Brazil, and he told a small group of Christian evangelicals assembled in Rio de Janeiro, that: “God will do anything to see to it that mankind hears His Word. If a helicopter becomes necessary, He provides it.” The “mankind” to whom Luz referred includes isolated Amazon indigenous groups. Brazil has 115 confirmed indications of such groups — more than any other country in the world. All but two are in the Amazon biome. Many are concentrated in the west of Brazil near the frontier with Peru, which is the area targeted by Ethnos360Aviation. Sometime after the publication of this article&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/bringing-christ-and-coronavirus-evangelicals-to-contact-amazon-indigenous/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/ngos-charge-brazils-bolsonaro-with-indigenous-genocide-at-un/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2020 11:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forest Destruction, Forests, Gold Mining, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Law Enforcement, Mining, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[At a UN event, Brazil was accused of Amazon deforestation policies leading toward “ethnocide” against indigenous peoples, and “genocide” against uncontacted indigenous groups.]]>
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							<![CDATA[An isolated indigenous group in Acre state, Brazil. Image by Gleilson Miranda / Governo do Acre under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. “The Moxihatetea [uncontacted indigenous group] is vigilant and they want to keep away from the Whites. They don’t know who the gold panners (garimpeiros) are and they don’t want them to approach them. They flee deep into the forest to get away from them,” said Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa during his address at the opening of the 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 2 March. Wearing a traditional headdress and speaking in the Yanomami language, Kopenawa expressed deep concern for the future of the Moxihatetea, an isolated indigenous group living within Yanomami Park, an indigenous reserve located in the very north of Brazil, near the frontier with Venezuela, and covering 9,664,975 hectares (37,317 square miles). “The gold panners began to steal their food — their cassava, their bananas, their sugar cane. … The Moxihatetea attacked them with bows and arrows, but the gold panners, more violent, reacted firing at them with their shotguns,” Kopenawa told an international audience. “The Moxihatetea fled higher up the river, but there are gold panners there too, by the Catrimani River. The Indians are surrounded. I don’t know them personally. I’ve only seen their huts from the air. But I’m very worried. Soon they will be exterminated. There’s no doubt the gold panners will kill them with their shotguns and their illnesses, their malaria, their&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/ngos-charge-brazils-bolsonaro-with-indigenous-genocide-at-un/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/a-bloody-january-for-brazils-indigenous-kaiowa-spotlights-persecution/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Mar 2020 15:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Caio de Freitas Paes]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Cerrado, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conservation, Controversial, Corruption, Crime, Culture, Development, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Politics, Protected Areas, Religions, Social Justice, Soy, Traditional Knowledge, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Attacks on indigenous Kaiowá communities in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul at the start of the year have highlighted a long-running campaign of persecution and growing violence against the group. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[The level of violence affecting the indigenous population in Mato Grosso do Sul state is the highest in the country, with a homicide rate three times the national average. Image by Christian Braga/Farpa/Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. The start of 2020 has been marked by a series of attacks against indigenous Kaiowá communities in Brazil’s border region with Paraguay, part of a long-running and increasingly violent campaign for control of their land. In the early morning hours of Jan. 2, a group of as-yet-unidentified invaders set fire to a community house of worship in the village of Laranjeira Nhanderu, home to around 80 indigenous people, in the municipality of Rio Brilhante. The arsonists fled into the woods, leaving the panicked residents searching for water to extinguish the fire. By the time they managed to put it out, part of the structure was compromised. Rio Brilhante is an area where the land is under dispute, coveted by agribusiness interests. Here, the houses of worship are the strongest symbol of a people under constant threat from industry in central-west Brazil. “The Kaiowá make sure to build houses of worship to provide them with more security,” says theologian and historian Graciela Chamorro. “From their point of view, this kind of structure guarantees a locale where &#8216;the word is germinated,’ which makes them imagine that the non-indigenous respect this place.” A former professor of indigenous history at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), Chamorro has studied the spiritual relations and religious practices of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/a-bloody-january-for-brazils-indigenous-kaiowa-spotlights-persecution/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Making a thriller out of Belo Monte hydro dam: Q&#038;A with filmmaker Sabrina McCormick</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/making-a-thriller-out-of-belo-monte-hydro-dam-qa-with-sabrina-mccormick/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Feb 2020 12:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Débora Pinto]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Controversial, Corruption, Crime, Dams, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Ethnocide, Forests, Green, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Infrastructure, Land Use Change, Pasture, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Rivers, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Soy, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Transparency, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[The construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon is the narrative engine that drives Sequestrada, the first full-length film by U.S. cinematographer and sociologist Sabrina McCormick.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam is the narrative impulse for Sequestrada (2019), the first full-length film by U.S. cinematographer and sociologist Sabrina McCormick, together with South Korea’s Soopum Sohn. The film, released last December on streaming platforms iTunes, Vudu, Vimeo, Amazon and Google Play, tells the story of a young indigenous woman, Kamudjara (played by indigenous actress Kamudjara Xipaia), in the midst of disputes and expectations about the profound social and environmental changes the development will bring. The dam, built on the Xingu River, displaced up to 50,000 people, cost nearly $10 billion, caused untold socio-environmental damage — and today generates only a fraction of the electricity that its developers had promised. An associate professor at the Environmental and Occupational Health Department at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, McCormick was an adviser to Congress and the Department of State, serving on climate committees during the Obama administration. She says she believes film plays a fundamental role in disseminating information and fostering reflection over environmental issues, which she has been studying for more than 20 years. In this interview with Mongabay, she talks about the creative process, her experience filming in the Amazon and perceptions about the social and cultural aspects of the people she met, as well as the locals’ sense of belonging related to the forest. She also stresses the importance of blocking the advance of power generation models based on projects like Belo Monte. A shot from the film &#8216;Sequestrada&#8217;. Image courtesy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/making-a-thriller-out-of-belo-monte-hydro-dam-qa-with-sabrina-mccormick/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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