No Plan B To Save Amazon

Brazil’s noted indigenous voices, Sônia Guajajara, speaks on the Amazon fires and plight of the indigenous people since the outset of Bolsonaro’s reign

- Sonia Guajajara

Indigenous people have been warning for decades about the violations we have suffered everywhere in Brazil.

Predatory action by agribusiness loggers, miners and ranchers, who have a powerful lobby in the National Congress with over 200 deputies under their influence in addition to large-scale projects such as hydroelectric dams are threats that have been deepening terribly under the anti-indigenous Jair Bolsonaro government, which normalises, incites and empowers violence against the environment and against us, indigenous people and our territories.

The correlation between deforestation and fire is intrinsic. The ten municipalities in the Amazon region that are most affected by the fire represent 37 percent of the total and 43 percent of deforestation detected in July.