This enabled deforestation to soar to its highest level since 2006, as developers and miners who took land from Indigenous people faced few consequences.Between 2019 and 2022, the number of fines handed out for illegal activities in the Amazon declined by 38 per cent compared with the previous four years, according an analysis of Brazilian government data by the Climate Observatory, a network of environmental nonprofit groups.One of the strongest signs yet of Lulas intentions to reverse these trends was his decision to return Marina Silva to lead the countrys environmental ministry.
BRASÍLIA, Brazil “We, civil servants, are reopening Funai to Indigenous peoples,” anthropologist Janete Carvalho announced in a recent act at the headquarters of Brazil’s federal agency for Indigenous affairs. Under former president Jair Bolsonaro, she said, Funai officials were “really forced to not fulfill our mission” over the past four years. “We, civil servants, are reopening […]