Posts tagged "brazil"
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November 11
Survival has developing news from Brazil, where masked gunmen have executed an Indian religious leader in front of his community. His last words were to his son Valmir: ‘Don’t leave this place. Take care of this land with courage. This is our land. Nobody will drag you from it. Look after my granddaughters and all the children well. I leave this land in your hands.’ Read more here.

Survival has developing news from Brazil, where masked gunmen have executed an Indian religious leader in front of his community.

His last words were to his son Valmir: ‘Don’t leave this place. Take care of this land with courage. This is our land. Nobody will drag you from it. Look after my granddaughters and all the children well. I leave this land in your hands.’

Read more here.

14
November 11
Yanomami children in Demeni, Brazil.

Yanomami children in Demeni, Brazil.

10
November 11
Yanomami pound leaves for Tembó, Demini, Brazil. Today, the World Bank published a study that confirmed indigenous peoples are key to preserving the world’s forests. Read about it here.

Yanomami pound leaves for Tembó, Demini, Brazil.

Today, the World Bank published a study that confirmed indigenous peoples are key to preserving the world’s forests. Read about it here.

1
November 11
‘I am the environment.
I was born in the forest,
and I grew up there. I know it well.
Without land and nature, we can’t live, the world can’t work.
You talk of the planet, yet you don’t
think it has a heart and breathes,
but it does.
You talk politics and study on paper.
But we study in the forest and look
carefully. You don’t know our wisdom.
It’s very different.
We understand that all living things have a noreshi - another living being which is born at the exact same time
as yourself.
Your noreshi may be a bird, or a boar, or a deer, or a fish, or an anteater, a
butterfly or any other kind of living plant or animal.
It rests when you rest, it feeds
when you feed, it sings when you sing.
It dies when you die.’
- Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami, Brazil
25
October 11

The Awá are one of only two nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes left in Brazil but their forest is dwindling as settlers and cattle ranchers invade.

23
September 11
The Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela know their rainforest intimately, using approximately 500 plants on a daily basis.  They make slings for babies from silk-grass twine, arrow shafts from the stem of pampas grass and extract salt from the ashes of the great Taurari tree.

The Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela know their rainforest intimately, using approximately 500 plants on a daily basis.  They make slings for babies from silk-grass twine, arrow shafts from the stem of pampas grass and extract salt from the ashes of the great Taurari tree.

16
September 11
Takwarentxia, from Brazil’s Awá tribe, with the pet monkey that accompanies him everywhere. The Awá are one of the last two nomadic tribes in the Amazon, but face annihilation if nothing is done to stop the loggers and ranchers illegally invading their forests. 

Takwarentxia, from Brazil’s Awá tribe, with the pet monkey that accompanies him everywhere. The Awá are one of the last two nomadic tribes in the Amazon, but face annihilation if nothing is done to stop the loggers and ranchers illegally invading their forests.