Chicken sold in Britain’s supermarkets and fast food outlets is being fattened on soya linked to deforestation and fires across a vital region of tropical woodland in Brazil, says Greenpeace.
As a reaction to several crime reports from the Karipuna People, police operations have been carried out, resulting in arrests and the confiscation of materials used for logging.
Since President Bolsonaro took office, his administration has undermined Brazil’s environment agencies and sought to weaken restrictions on protected areas and Indigenous territories.
Two Yanomami men are reported to have been killed by gold miners in northern Brazil, as a massive gold rush brings death, disease and pollution to South America’s largest relatively isolated tribe.
President Bolsonaro is overseeing the destruction of a people and the rainforests they managed and looked after for millennia, says Survival International