The Amazon and the lives of Indigenous peoples in Brazil are at great risk
What is happening?
Who will pay the price?
What is happening?
Politicians in Brazil are voting to remove laws that protect the Amazon and many other ecologically sensitive areas. They want to cancel Indigenous rights in order to do it. Yes, it is a smart coordinated attack and the proverbial "shit-show"!
What is behind it?
Who will pay the price?
What is happening?
The plan of the government is to open the Amazon and other protected areas to mining, logging, and farming, for our consumption here, in the global north. And, yes, we are complicit in systemic harm..
Who will pay the price?
Who will pay the price?
Who will pay the price?
Since most ecologically protected areas are held by Indigenous peoples, the government plans to take away Indigenous land titles and to cancel Indigenous rights to be able to open these areas to business. Land grabbers will get away with theft and murder.