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“Consortia of deception” enable destruction in a conservation unit where deforestation is high
By Maurício Hashizume |
10/05/21
The Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area (EPA) is a key territory in the Xingu Socio-Environmental Diversity Corridor located between São Félix do Xingu and Altamira. About 40% of its area has already been converted to other uses, mainly livestock. Actions by “consortia” formed to deceive governance drive devastation and worsen conflicts
The Triunfo
do Xingu Environmental Protection Area (EPA), in southern Pará state, appears
at the top of several lists of conservation units (CUs) with the highest rates
Amazon tribe wins unprecedented compensation for deforestation on their land
An unprecedented court settlement guaranteed reparations to the Ashaninka people of the state of Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon, whose lands were deforested in the 1980s to supply the European furniture industry. December 27, 2020 / 08:34 AM IST
File image: Ashaninka people holding a meeting to discuss their planned occupation of the former government base called the Envira Front of Ethno-environmental Protection in Kokasul along the Envira river in Brazil s northwestern Acre state March 16, 2014. (Image: Reuters/Lunae Parracho) An unprecedented court settlement guaranteed reparations to the Ashaninka people of the state of Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon, whose lands were deforested in the 1980s to supply the European furniture industry. The logging company penalized was owned by the family of the current governor of Acre, Gladson Cameli.