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“Consortia of deception” enable destruction in a conservation unit where deforestation is high
By Maurício Hashizume |
10/05/21
The Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area (EPA) is a key territory in the Xingu Socio-Environmental Diversity Corridor located between São Félix do Xingu and Altamira. About 40% of its area has already been converted to other uses, mainly livestock. Actions by “consortia” formed to deceive governance drive devastation and worsen conflicts
The Triunfo
do Xingu Environmental Protection Area (EPA), in southern Pará state, appears
at the top of several lists of conservation units (CUs) with the highest rates
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We see how our forests are turning into large mud pools. We see how the sources of our rivers are silting up and how their courses are diverting. We see how the tree shadows begin to disappear, how the harvested fruits are diminishing, and how the crystalline water of the Tapajós River, of the igarapés – the streams – and the springs becomes murkier by the day. Finally, we see how the smoke from many fires darkens our sunset.
All of this is happening in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, where I am from. I was born and raised here, along the upper course of the Tapajós River, in the Jacareacanga municipality in Brazil’s northern state of Pará. COVID-19 has hit our communities hard, and without any government emergency plan for the Indigenous villages, too many of our great leaders have died. They were the living libraries of our culture, and now they are gone. We must act.
The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point. That should concern everyone, because what happens in the Amazon has planetary implications.
Spanning eight South American countries and French Guiana, the Amazon contains more than 60 percent of the world’s tropical forests, 20 percent of its fresh water and about 10 percent of biodiversity.
As a result of land speculation and insatiable global demand for meat, soy, gold, and other commodities, roughly 20 percent of the world’s largest tropical forest has already been razed. A further 5 percent rise in deforestation levels could trigger catastrophic dieback, essentially dooming the 2015 Paris
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We see how our forests are turning into large mud pools. We see how the sources of our rivers are silting up and how their courses are diverting. We see how the tree shadows begin to disappear, how the harvested fruits are diminishing, and how the crystalline water of the Tapajós River, of the
igarapés – the streams – and the springs becomes murkier by the day. Finally, we see how the smoke from many fires darkens our sunset.
All of this is happening in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, where I am from. I was born and raised here, along the upper course of the Tapajós River, in the Jacareacanga municipality in Brazil’s northern state of Pará. COVID-19 has hit our communities hard, and without any government emergency plan for the Indigenous villages, too many of our great leaders have died. They were the living libraries of our culture, and now they are gone. We must act.
Pandemic covers up setbacks in Brazilian environmental laws
The issuing of environmental fines for illegal deforestation in Brazil fell by 72 per cent in 2019-2020 despite an increase in deforestation rates. Copyright: Amazônia Real, underCreative Commons 2.0
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