🇧🇷📡This week, Brazil broke two more –rather alarming– records:
Historic increases in deforestation, and historic increases in land conflicts. Come with us to untangle the unfortunate record breaking track keeping environmental protectors awake at night🧵
The Pastoral Land Commission @cptnacional published its 2020 report. Violence in rural areas reached an all time high: 1576 occurrences of conflicts over land, since 1985, when the reporting began. Also a 25% increase to 2019 and 57.6% to 2018. #ConflictsInTheFieldBrasil2020
On Friday, we've learned that deforestation in the Amazon surpassed 1K km2 in a month for the first time since @inpe_mct Deter-B started monitoring, in 2016. Also an increase of 41% to the same period in the previous year.
This would be worrying in itself, but in April @imazon also registered record deforestation: 778 square kilometers of forest were cleared, an increase of 45% compared to 2019...
🌎🚨According to data from @inpe_mct , record deforestation increases in Brazil not only happened in May and April, but also in March 2021, both in the Amazon and in the Cerrado Biomes.
And to make things worse, @inpe_mct just informed that the number of #fires in the Amazon in the month of May was the highest since 2007. And the fire season has just begun, with the southern forest at critical fire risk.
Unfortunately, Brazil ALSO had record fires registered in the Pantanal biome in 2020, and in the Amazon in 2019, when the fateful "Day of Fire" took place, as reported by @Reuters
You'd think this is enough, but Brazil also broke records in the use of pesticides, according to a reporting by @guardian in 2019, and again in 2020, as @agenciapublica and @reporterb published earlier this year...
We can spend a long time listing the records broken by Brazil's government when it comes to deforestation, violence and dismantling public infrastructure.
Our intention is not generating fear, but what happens in the tropical forests impacts all of us🌱🌏
🚨 Alert: Bill to be discussed in Brazilian Congress this week is grave threat to existence of indigenous reservations, as assault on Amazon protections continues. What is at stake?
The proposal changes the Statute of the Indian (1973) and updates PEC 215, allowing the suppression of indigenous rights guaranteed in the Constitution, among them, the permanent possession of their lands and the exclusive right over their natural resources. (2/5)
The project places demarcations under the so-called “time frame” rule, whereby only indigenous peoples who were in possession of their land on the promulgation of the Constitution (1988), or were in a legal dispute then, would have land rights direct with invaders. (3/5)
➡️Brazil environment minister targeted in wood-smuggling probe; 🇧🇷 🇺🇸
➡️The rapidly deteriorating situation in Yanomami Indigenous Territory;⏳
➡️Amazon Deforestation hits record high in April;🌎
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.
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 🌱