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Bert Ernste

Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

The Guardian

Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology. (...)

Such are the contrasts in this underreported part of the Amazon rainforest where magnificent natural beauty has become a backdrop to increasing violence and impunity. It is the setting for a battle over access to resources that has intensified following the election of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2018.

Law enforcement officials say the Javari Valley, an area the size of Portugal and home to the world’s largest concentration of uncontacted Indigenous tribes, is now Brazil’s second largest drug trafficking route, where the interwoven illicit industries of fishing, logging and mining have proliferated over the past decade. (...)

With sweeping government cuts in the region – there has been no federal environmental agency [Ibama] base here since 2018 and just three, poorly resourced Indigenous protection agency [Funai] outposts – seizures have plummeted under the Bolsonaro administration, according to a report by Publica, a Brazilian investigative newsroom. According to internal Funai documents seen by the Guardian, the Funai outpost closest to where Pereira and Phillips were killed has come under fire seven times in the past two years. (...)

“Dom Phillips was not on an ‘adventure’. He was a war correspondent documenting a war.”

Saraiva argued that the Brazilian government has more than enough resources to end the crime surge here, citing his own experience combating illegal gold mining in the Yanomami Indigenous territory by using the army to target illegal infrastructure such as boats and equipment.

“But they [the Bolsonaro administration] are not doing it for lack of political will.” (...)

Traffickers have also begun recruiting younger Indigenous men and boys into the drugs operations themselves, said Tamakuri. Drawn in by payments of a few hundred dollars for months of work, promises of clothing and mobile phones, the recruits then face execution if they try to escape. (...)

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Photo of man carrying a big fish

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Bert Ernste

Killing and outrage: little has changed in the Amazon after years of violence

The Guardian

(...) Before the world was outraged by the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira, it was aghast at the killings of Chico Mendes and Dorothy Stang.

Mendes was a rubber tapper and unionist murdered by ranchers in 1988 in the southern Amazon; 73-year-old Stang was a US nun assassinated in 2005 for standing up to illegal loggers on the other side of the rainforest. (...)

But for those hoping the recent murder of Phillips and Pereira will mark a turning point for the Amazon – some combination, say, of greater environmental protections, more oversight or broader rights for Brazil’s Indigenous communities – the killings of Mendes and Stang do not offer very comforting lessons. (...)

“We don’t believe that anything changes because of these cases,” said [Ronilson Costa, national coordinator of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), a Catholic church organisation that monitors land conflicts]. “There is not less violence or fewer deaths and the numbers prove that.”

“The level of impunity is very high,” he added. “Areas such as Amazonia are always in conflict, there is something every week, whether it is a threat, an attack, a prison, and murder as well. I think the expansion and invasion of capital has generated more violence.”

According to CPT statistics, Stang was one of 39 people killed over land disputes in 2005. In the years since, more than 600 people have perished, an average of 38 each year. (...)

Only around 10 % of the cases recorded by the CPT come to trial and even then it often takes years of delays, appeals and retrials. (...)

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Brazilian ecologist Chico Mendes and Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old American nun, were both shot dead. Composite: AFP/Getty images/Reuters.

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Bert Ernste

Laagbouw tussen de hoogbouw

Foto van oud pand tussen hoogbouw

São Paulo (SP) Brazilië 2021

Ooit was de Avenida Paulista een laan met grote villa’s van de koffiebaronnen. Nu staan er voornamelijk torenflats met hier daar nog een van de vroegere casarões (grote huizen).

Van Wikipedia (Portugees) deze foto van de Avenida Paulista in 1902 van Guilherme Gaensly:

Foto van de Avenida Paulista in 1902 door Guilherme Gaensly. Bron Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenida_Paulista

#architecture #architectuur #brasil #brazil #brazilie #foto #fotografie #photo #photography #sao-paulo

Originally posted at: https://blog.ernste.net/2022/05/18/laagbouw-tussen-de-hoogbouw/

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Bert Ernste

‘Record after record’: Brazil’s Amazon deforestation hits April high, nearly double previous peak

The Guardian

Climate analysts are astounded by such a high reading during the rainy season, and is the third monthly record this year.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year – the previous April record – preliminary government data has shown, alarming environmental campaigners. (...)

Destruction of the Brazilian Amazon in the first four months of the year also hit a record for the period of 1,954 square km (754 square miles), an increase of 69% compared to the same period of 2021, clearing an area more than double the size of New York City.

Deforestation in the Amazon has soared since rightwing president Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019 and weakened environmental protection. Bolsonaro argues that more farming and mining in the Amazon will reduce poverty in the region. (...)

Preservation of the Amazon is vital to stopping catastrophic climate change because of the vast amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide it absorbs. (...)

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> See also: ‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge (The Guarian)

Aerial photo of stocpile of illegal logs

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Bert Ernste

Lissabonse tram in São Paulo

Foto van muurschildering van tram in Lissabon

São Paulo (SP) Brazilië 2020Foto van Lissabonse tram (van Wkipedia)

Op de muur van de Manteigaria Lisboa is deze muurschildering van een van de typische trams van Lissabon te vinden. Een manteigaria is letterlijk een boterwinkel, hier is het een restaurant / café. De laatste keer dat ik er langs kwam leek het gesloten te zijn.

(De Foto van de tram in Lissabon komt van Wikipedia.)<br clear="all"></br>

#brasil #brazil #brazilie #foto #fotografie #lisboa #lisbon #muurschildering #photo #photography #sao-paulo #streetcar #tram #wallpainting

Originally posted at: https://blog.ernste.net/2022/03/11/lissabonse-tram-in-sao-paulo/

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Bert Ernste

Leaked EU anti-deforestation law omits fragile grasslands and wetlands

The Guardian

Campaigners say draft regulation contains many loopholes, including exclusion of Cerrado and Pantanal.

The fragile Cerrado grasslands and the Pantanal wetlands, both under threat from soy and beef exploitation, have been excluded from a European Union draft anti-deforestation law, campaigners have said, and there are many other concerning loopholes. (...)

The long-awaited draft regulation, expected to be published in December, will be limited to controlling EU imports of beef, palm oil, soy, wood, cocoa and coffee, according to a report seen by the Guardian. (...)

Campaigners said the EU risks getting it wrong. They criticised the exclusion from the proposals of rubber, leather, maize and other kinds of meat, linking pigs and chickens to “embedded deforestation” through the use of soy as animal feed. (...)

The Together4Forests campaign called for the regulation to ensure protection for all kinds of ecosystems, not only forests. (...)

Other ecosystems will be excluded, even though the EU document concedes that stricter rules to protect the Amazon rainforest “have already been shown to accelerate conversion of Cerrado savannah and Pantanal wetlands for agricultural production”. It also notes that the Cerrado is “a critical region for storing carbon”, a source of water, vegetation and abundant plant life, but concludes that including such ecosystems would make it more difficult to monitor forests. (...)

The document also reveals that the law “will not specifically target the financial sector”, a blow to campaigners who argued that European banks play a role in fuelling deforestation through their lending. (...)

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An endangered giant otter in a lagoon in western Pantanal – which is one of the world’s largest freshwater wetlands but is not covered by the draft law. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy.

Tags: #environment #eu #european_union #brazil #brasil #brazilie #bolivia #paraguay #cerrado #pantanal #wetlands #savannah #peatlands #cattle_farming #soy #beef #soy_plantation #palm_oil #palm_oil_plantation #deforestation #rubber #maize #wood #cocoa #coffee #plantation #coffee_plantation #maize_plantation #agriculture #Together4Forests

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Bert Ernste

Recordaantal van 227 milieuactivisten vermoord in 2020; Colombia en Mexico koplopers

De Volkskrant

De agressie tegen milieuactivisten en mensenrechtenactivisten is in 2020 sterk toegenomen. Wereldwijd werden het afgelopen jaar 227 milieuactivisten vermoord terwijl ze probeerden bossen, rivieren en andere ecosystemen te beschermen. Volgens de Britse mensenrechtenorganisatie Global Witness is dat een record.

Het werkelijke aantal ligt waarschijnlijk nog hoger als gevolg van niet-gemelde of verkeerd weergegeven gevallen, vooral in Afrika. In 2019 werden wereldwijd zeker 212 milieuactivisten vermoord. Sinds 2013 is het aantal verdubbeld. (...)

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Foto van beschilderen van vliegtuig
Milieuactivisten van Greenpeace beschilderen een toestel van Air France met groene verf. (archiefbeeld)Beeld AP.

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Recordaantal van 227 milieuactivisten vermoord in 2020; Colombia en Mexico koplopers

De agressie tegen milieuactivisten en mensenrechtenactivisten is in 2020 sterk toegenomen. Wereldwijd werden het afgelopen jaar 227 milieuactiviste...