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Amazon under environmental attack?

President Bolsonaro and the Amazon


Ancient Amazon (Source: The New York Times)
USPA NEWS - The Munduruku a indigenous people of Brazil fight back.Right wing politics is a playing role in the destruction of the worlds most significant rain forest
The Amazon the world's largest rain forest and its indigenous community has been targeted by right wing politics.Maria Leusa Kaba and others of the Munduruku,a indigenous community in the Amazon region,have been driving Loggers,Miners,and Excavators away.President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil sanctions the abolishment of protected indigenous lands and the repealing of some environmental laws pertaining to the rain forest. Brazil's Constitution of 1988 have safe guards to protect indigenous territories.Bolsonaro thinks this policy is obsolete. In regards to the indigenous communities the president declared the government need to "reintegrate them into society ".Thomas Love Joy environmental science and policy professor at George Mason University claims the indigenous people like the Munduruku will "become vulnerable if the forest vanishes".But it also should be noted that before Bolsonaro became president Miners,Loggers,and Farmers have been clearing the Amazon The New York Times article points out.According to the organization Global Forest Watch the Amazon has lost some where in the area of 91,890 sq.miles of forest cover.

more information: https://https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/world/americas/brazil-indigenous-mining-bolsonaro.html

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