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Quilombo leader Mãe Bernadete shot dead six years after son was killed

She was the leader of the quilombo Pitanga dos Palmares, a priestess of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, and the former Secretary for Racial Equality of Simões Filho, in Bahia state. Her community in Bahia is home to 289 families across 854 hectares.

The Kalunga digitally map traditional lands to save Cerrado way of life

The Kalunga digitally map traditional lands to save Cerrado way of life The Kalunga represents a grouping of 39 traditional quilombola communities the descendants of runaway slaves living on a territory covering 262,000 hectares (647,000 acres) in Goiás state in central Brazil, within the Cerrado savanna biome. This territory has been under heavy assault by illegal invaders, including small-scale wildcat gold miners, and large-scale mining operations, as well as land grabbers who have destroyed native vegetation to grow soy and other agribusiness crops. To defend their lands, the Kalunga received a grant from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), supported by Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, EU, the Global Environment Facility, Japan and the World Bank. With their funding, the Kalunga georeferenced the territory, pinpointing homes, crops, soils, 879 springs, and vital natural resources.

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