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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles supposedly thought he was very clever when he announced that he intends to demand US$1 billion at the Earth Day summit on April 22. In exchange, Brazil would deforest 40% less Amazon forest than it currently does. By this he means: if . . .
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Bolsonaro Policies Fuel Deforestation in Indigenous Lands
(São Paulo, April 12, 2021) – Brazilian federal authorities should immediately remove miners who have unlawfully entered the Munduruku Indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest, Human Rights Watch said today.
Munduruku Indigenous people in the Tapajós basin – an epicenter of illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest – in southwestern Pará state have reported increasing encroachments upon their lands by armed “wildcat” miners known as “garimpeiros” since March 14, 2021. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office has warned of a potential for violence between local residents and the miners and urged the deployment of the federal police and other authorities to remove the trespassers. But the government has yet to act. The tension has escalated in recent weeks after a group of miners brought equipment to the area.
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