With 15 years of experience in defending isolated and recently contacted peoples, the geographer and indigenous agency worker – known as indigenistas in Brazil – tells us how he noticed the emergence of a sophisticated criminal structure after the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro at the place where Dom and Bruno were murdered.
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Analytical and contextualized information about the Amazon, with stories, articles, interviews, and a daily compilation of news and studies on deforestation, regeneration, and conservation in the region.
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Land tenure regularization has declined in the Amazon
Since 2019 the number of definitive land titles issued outside rural settlements has fallen in the Legal Amazon.
Posted inGood Initiatives / Good Initiatives
Project harkens back to the historic Alliance of the Forest Peoples in the state of Acre
The partnership promotes the integrated management of nine indigenous lands and three extractive reserves to ensure sustainability and preserve the forest.
Posted inOpinion / Opinion
New resources for science in the Amazon
An avalanche of new investments has been announced in the last few days. Will they be able to leverage the much needed sustainable development?
Posted inOpinion / Opinion
The challenge of sectoral shared resources
We discovered this concept when interviewing food entrepreneurs in the Amazon. It consists of specific knowledge that leverages a sector. Learn why these resources are so important.
Posted inStories / Stories
“The Javari Valley shows us how the words of a president can lead to an increase in crime”, says the indigenista Carlos Travassos
The murders of the indigenista Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips attracted the world’s gazes to the region of the Javari Valley, in the west of Amazonas. The second largest indigenous land in Brazil is home to the largest number of isolated populations in the world and has two National Indian Foundation (Funai) […]
Posted inOpinion / Opinion
The Brazilian Amazon produces renewable energy, but consumes diesel
While most consumers in Brazil are interconnected and fueled by renewable energy, many in the Amazon are isolated and rely on fossil fuels. We all foot that bill.
Posted inOpinion / Opinion
New rules for collecting environmental fines
It is necessary to increase not only the number of fines issued but also the probability of collecting them.
Posted inOpinion / Opinion
To build the path of sustainability in the Amazon, Brazil has to overcome illegal activities
No sustainable development strategy can be developed in the Amazon without respecting our country’s Constitution and laws.
Posted inOpinion / Opinion
Invisible forest
Although forest regrowth in the Brazilian Amazon covers a vast area, it is invisible to existing monitoring systems. Without monitoring, regrowth remains dangerously vulnerable.