Thread by @SmokeSignalBR

📡Entries to the timeline [05/18 - 05/22]

➡️Brazil environment minister targeted in wood-smuggling probe; 🇧🇷 🇺🇸
➡️The rapidly deteriorating situation in Yanomami Indigenous Territory;⏳
➡️Amazon Deforestation hits record high in April;🌎

#HumanitarianCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Data from @Imazon shows that deforestation in the Brazil portion of the Amazon Forest reached a record high of the last decade this past April: 220 mi² of native land - the size of the city of Chicago - was lost in one month.

#ClimateEmergency

Brazilian Federal Police unveiled Akuanduba Operation, with raids to offices and residence of environment minister Ricardo Salles and his cabinet, now investigated for facilitating illegal lumber exports - following alerts raised by the US Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS 🌱

The situation of the Yanomami is critical and worsening fast. In addition to the attacks by armed gold-diggers, the population suffers with the absence of health teams, as malnutrition and diseases such as malaria and Covid-19 spread.
#HumanitarianCrisis #Brazil

Out timeline is updated every Monday with entries reflecting the previous week in the dismantling of socio-environmental protections in Brazil 📈

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