In this very important and decisive election year for Brazil and the Amazon, we embrace the challenge of talking more about the thriving and just Amazon that we must build, strengthening the hope that still resides in us.
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And despite all this, it is up to us to keep fighting even harder for this scenario to change, and for it to change soon.įor two years we have been hoping to carry out an expedition to showcase the Amazon We Need, which was postponed because of the pandemic. Still, there are those moments of utter helplessness, like when colleagues and supporters are murdered. We have been partially victorious in this battle so far, as we have managed to prevent many of these proposals from being approved. There have been many online mobilizations, for example on Twitter against land grabbing bills (PL2633 and PL510), which aims to legalize the invasion of public lands. In response, we have dedicated ourselves to blocking this agenda of destruction however and wherever we can. On a day-to-day basis, we have witnessed the dismantling of Brazilian environmental management with decrees and decisions here and there by the Bolsonaro government. It faded because our recent work at Greenpeace Brazil has so often shown the sad part of the Amazon, like when we carried out an expedition in states of Amazonas and Rondônia in September last year to document the impacts of fires on people’s lives and the environment, or when I was in the Pantanal in 2020, when more than a quarter of the biome was burned in a span of only a few months. I recently returned from a 21-day trip lived intensely in the Amazon rainforest that, even at this distressing moment in Brazil, managed to bring back a gleam in my eyes that had faded. Vegetation on the bank of the Manicoré River, in the southern Amazonas state, in the Amazon, Brazil.
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Returning to the Amazon and witnessing its splendor renews our strength to fight against the destruction and violence that consume us and the forest. This article originally appeared on Greenpeace Brazil’s website.