by Vera Ceccarello and Tatiana Massaro “You do not know me and you’ve never seen me. You live in a distant land.” (Davi Kopenawa, Yanomamishaman) During the final months of 2017, the Amazon has once again taken center stage of debates in the media and in civil society. The trigger was a decree from the interim… Read More Renca: Attacks From the Brazilian Government Put Reserve At Risk
Last June, Congress approved a legislative bill to reduce 600 thousand hectares of protected areas in the Amazon and other natural preserved areas in Brazil, which is equivalent to four times the area of the city of Sao Paulo.… Read More How the Political Crisis is Threatening Brazil’s Sustainable Goals
by Isabela Messias Brazil is a blessed country. We have no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no harsh winter. We have the largest tropical forest in the world, the Brazilian Amazon, which amounts for around 5 million square kilometers, and hosts an unparalleled biodiversity[i]. Moreover, Brazil also has 12% of the world’s freshwater, more than the European… Read More Counting our blessings – and destroying them
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