Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, par COOPER Gregory, WILLCOCK Simon
The Amazon has existed as a dense and humid rainforest teeming with life for at least 55 million years. But in a new paper, scientists claim that over 75% of the ecosystem has been losing resilience since the early 2000s due to climate change. This process appears to be most prominent in areas (...)
, by SALISBURY David S.
Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. Indigenous territory in many areas has blocked them.
The Ashéninka woman with the painted face radiated a calm, patient confidence as she stood on the sandy banks of the Amonia River and faced the (...)
, by DE SOUZA SANTOS Luiz Fernando
In the context of a reactionary political-economic agenda pursued by the Bolsonaro government, the environmental debate has been the target of strategic attack by the latter. Given the interests of agrarian, mining, and industrial capital (which requires energy, raw materials, etc.), the (...)
, by COLLYNS Dan, GIUFFRIDA Angela
Indigenous tribes see the Catholic church as a key ally in the ecological fight – and an unprecedented synod is focused on how to stop the destruction
A hundred years ago the Harakmbut people were nearly wiped out.
Inhabitants of a vast jungle region where Peru intersects with Brazil and (...)
, by WILLIS Daniel
We have no chance of avoiding environmental catastrophe whilst colonialist and market-first attitudes to climate persist
A multitude of images of burning rainforest have circulated across social media over the last week with the hashtag #PrayfortheAmazon. A familiar refrain in these tweets (...)
“The Amazon is a territory of life, food, water, and cultures, not destruction, death, and exploitation”
Over the past few days, peoples and governments from around the world have been witnessing the consequences of the recent and serious crimes committed against the Amazon rain forest. The (...)
, by AGUIAR Thiago, DUTRA Israel
Dark Night
Great Amazonian writer Milton Hatoum, in his latest novel, addressed the contradictions of authoritarian Brazil from the military dictatorship. The title sounded premonitory “The Night of Waiting - the Darkest Place”. On the afternoon of Monday 19 August, the largest city in the (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
“I don’t want flowers at my funeral, because I know they will be taken from the forest.” Chico Mendes
Although the destruction of the Amazon rainforest was already an alarming issue for decades, with the acceleration of this process due to the negligence of the government of the extreme (...)
, by EATON George
Illegal logging and land seizures are driving this ominous yet overlooked scientific trend.
It wasn’t until heavily armed men arrived from across the river that Cláudio José da Silva realized who was bankrolling the latest episode of illegal logging. His bare chest traced with blue-black (...)
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