Monitoring of groups on the messaging app WhatsApp shows that disinformation and lies are a strategy to weaken the Indigenous fight.
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Forest fires reached all indigenous lands with isolated peoples in the Amazon
An exclusive survey shows that, between July and September, the period that marks the dry season, fires in lands with the presence of isolated peoples accounted for more than 25% of fires in indigenous areas. The most serious cases occurred on the border with the Cerrado, in Mato Grosso, Pará, and Rondônia.
Meat production in the Amazon should undergo thorough inspections
Agreements to regulate husbandry in Pará have advanced and serve as a model for adapting the production chains of other Amazonian states. Pará is the leader of the initiative.
Hemmed in by agribusiness, Xavante territory is hit by high Covid-related mortality rates
With pressure on their native land and traditional foods, agrochemicals polluting their rivers, and a high rate of chronic disease have left the Xavante people of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna vulnerable to the pandemic.
The deforestation of the largest continuous area of forest in the Amazon
In the municipality of Altamira, Pará, almost 6,500 hectares of public forests were cut down in 2020. One of the people responsible deforested 60% of this area and did not stop even after being fined by Ibama.
Overcast atmosphere in Acre
As well as the capital Rio Branco, Xapuri and other towns in the interior suffer from pollution above safe limits for human health
Pollution is one of the footprints in the chain of Amazon destruction
The most vulnerable municipalities are affected by various types of crime
Social and environmental crises come together in Mato Grosso in a year of record burning in the Pantanal
In the rural area, the challenge for residents affected by the smoke is to get medical care
The victims of the geography of fire
The smoke from the fires and Covid sweeps from southern Amazonas to Acre
Invisible enemies: smoke from burnings worsens Covid-19 in the Amazon
Smoke from burnings worsens Covid-19 in the Amazon