Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.
Six months ago, more than 100 Indigenous people from five different ethnic groups entered the Itaquaí River, close to the city of Atalaia do Norte, in the Javari Valley, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. The Indigenous men and women were searching for the Indigenist Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips, who, hours […]
The agenda must also include reviewing budget cuts that undermined areas such as protection of uncontacted indigenous peoples; leaders underscore the importance of always making decisions together with native peoples
In an interview with e360, Beto Marubo, a leader of Brazil’s Indigenous Amazon people, discusses the recent murders of an activist and a journalist and excoriates President Jair Bolsonaro for opening Indigenous territories to a host of environmentally destructive activities.
An official tasked with presiding over FUNAI, asked the federal police to investigate APIB, Brazil's main coalition of Indigenous organizations, after it criticized the government. He also requested an investigation of an Indigenous leader and that the intelligence agency “monitor” the activities of the Indigenous people the leader belongs to.
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The administration of President Jair Bolsonaro has undermined the government agency tasked with protecting those rights, issued regulations that are harmful to Indigenous people, and halted the recognition of their traditional lands. The government has also weakened the federal environmental protection agencies, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA, its Portuguese acronym) and the Institute for the Conservation of Biodiversity (ICMBio), leaving Indigenous territories even more vulnerable to encroachment.
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On the 15th of June, anthropologist Beatriz Matos got the dreaded news: The mortal remains of her husband, Indigenist Bruno Pereira, and of the British journalist Dom Phillips had been found in the Javari Valley, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, ten days after they disappeared.