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Jair Bolsonaro

November 21, 2020

Government complicity fuels coronavirus among Brazil's indigenous people

The ongoing invasion and destruction of Yanomami land by illegal goldminers means coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the territory.
September 1, 2020

Fires in Brazilian Amazon affecting the health of thousands

Since President Bolsonaro took office, his administration has undermined Brazil’s environment agencies and sought to weaken restrictions on protected areas and Indigenous territories.
August 29, 2020

Defra’s proposed new law to curb deforestation 'seriously flawed'

The UK government and industry need to support a just transition to food systems that work with nature, including the restoration of natural ecosystems, says Greenpeace UK.
July 17, 2020

Bolsonaro using pandemic to build power lines through Amazon rainforest

The planned lines will benefit gold, bauxite and other mining companies whose activity is leading to further destruction of the rainforest.
June 20, 2020

Recently contacted tribe is 'the most infected' in Brazil

President Bolsonaro is overseeing the destruction of a people and the rainforests they managed and looked after for millennia, says Survival International
June 4, 2020

Brazilian Yanomami launch global campaign as goldminers and COVID-19 endanger entire tribe

Survival International says that the Yanomami's survival as a people depends on the miners being removed.
May 23, 2020

Removal of top missionary official in Brazil 'is major blow for Bolsonaro'

Ricardo Lopes Dias, an evangelical missionary, was appointed head of the Uncontacted Indians’ Unit of the Indigenous Affairs Agency in February.
April 5, 2020

Protection of indigenous territories 'a matter of life and death'

The protection of indigenous lands around the globe is critical to prevent thousands of tribal people dying from coronavirus, says Survival International.
February 2, 2020

Proposed appointment an act of aggression against Brazil's indigenous people, says Survival

The appointment of an evangelical missionary to head the uncontacted tribes department of Brazil's Indigenous Affairs Agency is a declaration that tribes will be forcibly contacted, says Survival International.
December 2, 2019

Brazilian tribe denounces illegal mining

Leaders and representatives of the Munduruku tribe have denounced goldminers operating illegally in their territory in the Brazilian Amazon.