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Amazon Tribe in Brazil Patrols Territory, Braces for Fight

"Land grabbers, miners, loggers have taken their lands and they've reacted by trying to protect it," said Brazilian lawmaker Edmilson Rodrigo.

Amazon Deforestation Is Driven by Criminal Networks, Report Finds

Criminals threaten and attack government officials, forest defenders and indigenous people, Human Rights Watch finds

"As long as you have this level of violence, lawlessness and impunity for the crimes committed by these criminal groups it will be impossible for Brazil to rein in deforestation. These criminal networks will attack anyone who stands in their way."

Amazon Watch Statement on Brazil-U.S. Amazon Plan

"It is absolutely preposterous to assert that private-sector 'development' in the Amazon is the way to protect the rainforest. To the contrary, private-sector 'development' is the cause of Amazon destruction. Further industrial expansion in the rainforest will undoubtedly drive further deforestation, pushing the Amazon closer to the ecological tipping point that scientists warn will totally destroy it."

Amazon Fires Inspire Global Day of Action to Hold Politicians and Corporations Accountable

Oakland, CA – Following dozens of demonstrations across six continents advocating for the protection and preservation of the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples, Amazon Watch today released a video with highlights from the Global Day of Action for the Amazon and launched a challenge to the global community to continue supporting the Amazon and indigenous peoples there.

Activists Follow the Money Fueling the Amazon Fires

Protesters around the world are singling out the bad actors profiting off deforestation

While the world watches in horror as fires rage on in the Amazon, activists are shining a light on the big businesses destroying what's popularly known as the "lungs of the Earth." On September 5th, people around the globe stood in solidarity with the rainforest's indigenous communities by partaking in the Global Day of Action for the Amazon, staging protests and singling out the bad actors profiting off deforestation.

The Amazon Rainforest Was Once a Human Success Story. It Could Be Again

For millennia, Indigenous practices have enhanced the biodiversity, fertility, and carbon-sucking powers of the most biodiverse region on land

Many Indigenous people, and groups that support them, hope that the international focus on the Amazon fires will spur renewed efforts to protect demarcated Indigenous territories. Preserving the Amazon also depends on much stronger enforcement of environmental laws and the implementation of Indigenous land and forestry management on wider scales.

"Chaos, Chaos, Chaos": a Journey Through Bolsonaro's Amazon Inferno

A 2,000-km road and river odyssey in Brazil reveals consensus from all sides: Bolsonaro has ushered in a new age of wrecking

"If we go on like this, things will get worse and worse," predicted a senior official from Brazil's environmental agency, Ibama, diplomatically blaming the spike in Amazon deforestation during Bolsonaro's first eight months in power on the "political situation" in Brazil.

Amazon Watch Statement on the "Amazon Pact" Issued Today by South American Leaders

"Responses to the Amazon fires will never be effective in protecting the rainforest unless they confront the key driver of Amazon deforestation: profit-seeking at the expense of the rights of forest peoples and environmental protection."