CO2: 423.28 ppmIn a rejection of early moves by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who took office in January, Brazil’s Congress has stripped powers from the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, both led by women environmentalists.
One year after the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, some people in the remote Javari Valley region of the Brazilian Amazon have seen their lives change, but not for the better. Police have identified the murderers and they are in jail, but community members say one of those arrested is innocent. The poverty is intense, many people are illiterate, something one of the murdered men was working hard to change. The communities were supposed to benefit from a government land reform effort aimed at better livelihoods for people whose income disappeared with the collapse of the rubber industry. Instead people in the region say they've been forgotten.
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One year after British reporter Dom Phillips was murdered in Brazil while working on a book about saving the Amazon rain forest, a group of journalists aims to complete the project, his family and former colleagues said on Thursday.
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed in a region where 23 Indigenous groups live – and we all face the same danger