Olá. Esperamos que você goste do que vai encontrar por aqui. Afinal, o ano de 2022 foi bem especial pra gente: completamos 30 anos de atuação no Brasil e temos muito orgulho dessas três décadas de ativismo ambiental.
Forest near the Manicoré River, in the southern Amazonas state, in the Amazon, Brazil. People from the communities near the Manicoré River are fighting for their land rights to be acknowledged and their forest protected.
Indigenous leaderships and activists protested in Brasília against the Bill 191, that aims to legalize illegal mining in indigenous lands, by marching to ministries buildings full of mud and fake blood, representing the death toll, violence and suffering caused by illegal mining. In front of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, gold bars with the word “crime” on them were placed, alongside a giant banner created by the artist Ibraim Nascimento with the aid of Indigenous People from the camp.
The Free Land Camp is the current home for over 6 thousand Indigenous People from 175 different ethnicities. This is the first camp held in person in two years, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Held since 2004, the camp demands that Indigenous Lands be demarcated, in addition to the defence of life against the destruction agenda promoted by the Bolsonaro government.
On February 15th, Petrópolis, located in the mountains north of Rio de Janeiro, faced its biggest storm since 1932, according to the National Center for Monitoring Natural Disasters (Cemaden) and the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet). The intense rainfall caused landslides and took the life of over a hundred people, displacing thousands. Petrópolis is another victim of governmental neglect when facing Climate Crisis, which intensifies extreme events like this.
Brazilian states must decrete Climate Emergency and set adaptation plans in motion to avoid an even more hostile future, specially to the people most impacted by extreme events.
Diagramação e versão on-line: Pato Sardá / Estúdio Abanico
Colaboração: Andrea Simplício, Anna Silva, Jean Prado, Juliana Duarte, Laura Gracindo, Miguel Haru, Rickson Figueira, Vanessa Leal, Victor Debone, Vivian Fasca
