Funai’s new president, who took office on February 3, told InfoAmazonia in an interview that the [agency’s] budget for demarcating and protecting Indigenous Territories is approximately R$ 90,000, which means she will be looking for alternatives for getting the agency back up and working.
Tag: Indigenous Land
Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure
Amazônia Minada project finds unusual rise in demand for manganese in 2020, when it became the second most requested on indigenous lands – just after gold. Some of the richest manganese deposits in the world are in southeast Pará, overlapping with the territories of the Kayapó, the most affected by recent records in mining requests. Illegal mining has increased and Indigenous people denounce mining on their territories.
Konibú death and the crime of the genocide of Funai’s former president
While he was president of Funai, Romero Juca delivered the land of Akuntsu Indians to their tormentors, says sertanista
Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle
Xipaya Indians and beiradeiros (river people), are finding a life in common in the village of Tukaya on the remote reaches of the Iriri River.
47% of Marãiwatsédé Indigenous Territory is burning, in Brazil
Approximately 47% of indigenous land has turned ashes. Fighting against fire depend on police protection for firefighters and effective supervision of a road.
Progresses fund for environmental remediation of oil blocks in Peru
Fund will be used for environmental remediation of the basins of the rivers Pastaza, Corrientes, Tigre and Marañón, in indigenous territories affected by nearly 45 years of oil activity.
Government endorses indigenous land to license Belo Monte dam
Formalize the Arara da Volta Grande do Xingu indigenous land is, since 2011, one of the conditions for the hydroelectric plant can operate.
The cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests
For example, Peru has leased out 60 percent of its share of Amazon rainforest as oil and gas concessions. This huge swathe of open-for-development land overlaps 70 percent of all indigenous communities in the nation.
Época: Conflict between government and indigenous people in the construction of 40 dams
To build the complex, the government will face 12 000 indigenous secularly known for cutting the heads of his enemies.
Amazonia Blog: Invadors are removed from Marãiwatsédé Indigenous Land
Operation by Federal Police, Federal Highway Police, National Indian Foundation and federal prosecutors removed the 70 people who illegally occupied indigenous land in the northwestern region of Mato Grosso.