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Help wind power while saving rainforests

There's evidence to suggest that wind turbine manufacturers are using illegally harvested balsa wood in their products.
Wind power can be a legitimate piece of a sustainable energy mix, but not at the expense of rainforests.

Please consider signing this petition to support supply-chain transparency by wind turbine manufacturers.

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Don’t plunder the rainforest for wind energy!

There is no doubt that we need to move to renewable energy as soon as possible – and above all, to dramatically reduce our energy and resource consumption. Wind turbines are a key part of that transition, but their rotors often contain large...

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Farhad 🆓🇵🇸 ☮️Now

Over 12.000 fires were registered in the Amazon only in the first 4 days of September, almost as much as the number of fires for the entire month last year.

#Brazil
Just six weeks before the crucial 2022 Brazilian presidential election, a historic day of #Amazon burning was detected by satellite monitoring. On 22 August, 3,358 fires were detected in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the Brazilian space agency, INPE. This was the highest number of fires recorded for any 24-hour period since 2007.

That alarming day of fire was no anomaly, but simply another day in a tragic trend of destruction in the Amazon #rainforest since Jair #Bolsonaro became president of Brazil in 2019. Just in the month of August 2022, there were 33,116 illegal fire hotspots registered in the Amazon, the highest level in 12 years.

On this #DayOfTheAmazon, learn about the threats to the forest and what you can do to protect it:
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/55533/amazon-rainforest-fires-2022-brazil-causes-climate/

Amazon rainforest fires 2022: Facts, causes, and climate impacts - Greenpeace International

The Amazon rainforest is shrinking. The fires in the Amazon are growing. And the impacts of this destruction are a risk to the entire planet.

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berternste@pod.orkz.net
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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Tags: #brazil #brasil #brazilie #amazon #killings #dom_philips #bruno_pereira #chico_mendes #dorothy_stang #indigenous_people #mining #illegal_mining #logging #illegal_logging #cattle_farming #deforestation #rainforest #bolsonaro #jair_bolsonaro #marina_silva #impunity

berternste@pod.orkz.net
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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anonymiss

People in #Brazil's #Amazon #rainforest again reel from #floods

source: https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/People-in-Brazil-s-Amazon-rainforest-again-reel-17193594.php

Edileuza Pereira da Silva carries a plate with fish for cooking outside her home, flooded by the rise of the #Negro #river in #Iranduba, Amazonas state, Brazil, Monday, May 23, 2022. The Amazon region is being hit hard by flooding with 35 municipalities that are facing one of their worst floods in years and the water level is expected to rise over the coming months.

#climate #weather #flood #environment #problem #news #crisis

People in Brazil's Amazon rainforest again reel from floods

IRANDUBA, Brazil (AP) — For the second straight year, inhabitants of Brazil's Amazon...

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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)

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DavïÐ Låzårµ§

Please help save the Tongass National Forest
#Tongass #NationalForest #Forest #Rainforest #Alaska #RoadlessRule #NRDC #RandyMoore #Chief #USForestService #Letter

"Before leaving office, Trump stripped protections from 9 million acres of Alaska's pristine Tongass National Forest in a blatant giveaway to logging companies and other corporate interests.

More than a year later, the Tongass — the heart of the largest intact temperate rainforest in the entire world — is still unprotected.

It's up to the Biden administration now to follow through on its promise to undo Trump's damage and restore protections for these wildlands. As they begin the mandatory rule-making process, administration officials need to hear from as many people like you and me as possible — people who care deeply about the Tongass, all cherished wildlands, and our climate.

The administration is seeking public input on this plan — but only until January 24.

The Trump administration gutted protections for the Tongass by rolling back something called the Roadless Rule, which protected these wildlands from industrial logging by prohibiting companies from harvesting timber and building roads through the forest.

Even as many other public lands have been invaded by industrial development over the years, the Roadless Rule has kept the Tongass virtually pristine.

The benefits are impossible to overstate. The Roadless Rule has:

🔹 Helped preserve the traditional and cultural practices of the region's Indigenous communities who have relied on these lands for millennia
🔹 Protected millions of acres of irreplaceable old growth trees that store more carbon per acre than almost any other forest on the planet, making it an absolutely critical tool as we fight the climate crisis
🔹 Preserved the habitats of wildlife species like the Alexander Archipelago wolf, brown and black bears, salmon, and bald eagles
🔹 Powered the local economy, which relies heavily on fishing and tourism

For these reasons and more, NRDC has been fighting for decades against corporate interests to defend the Tongass. So, when the Trump administration rolled back protections, we joined with Indigenous communities and rushed to court to stop them.

But the fight isn't over. We must ensure that the Biden administration feels the pressure from activists like you and follows through on its promise to save the Tongass by reinstating the Roadless Rule.

Thank you for standing with us again and again and for fighting for the Tongass.

Sincerely,

Garett Rose
Senior Policy Advocate, Nature, NRDC"

You can help by submitting a public comment before the January 24 comment deadline. Help NRDC reach our goal of sending 20,000 letters in defense of the Tongass.

Call on the Biden administration to restore protections for America’s largest wild forest

Help save Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from industrial logging and clearcutting that would have devastating effects on Indigenous communities and our climate.