Canadian mining company Belo Sun tries to establish a gold mine in an area that had been allocated for land reform. The company received land from INCRA under the Bolsonaro administration, but the Public Defender’s Office and the Federal Court of Accounts challenge the operation
A ruling by Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court will determine the future of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples and, by extension, the world’s forests, biodiversity, and our ability to mitigate the climate crisis. Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s recent election as president of Brazil and the subsequent creation of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples instilled hope around the […]
(Image: Cícero Pedrosa Neto / Amazônia Real / IPS) An attempt to empower forest-rich countries in the tropics as well as indigenous and local peoples was