“Ancestors are saying something”: Fires turn sky Into Aboriginal flag, stunning Australians
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While Australia enters in 2020 in the middle of its worst fire crisis, an omen of hope appears in the sky. The country where conservatives won elections by promising to support the carbon economy is now on its knees under the blows of a fire crisis triggered by climate change. While in the red-tinted sky of the fires, Rose Fletcher, a resident of southern Australia, captured a new year's image of the sky resembling the Aboriginal flag. In the middle of the catastrophe, an omen for a world in harmony with nature.Indigenous boy, 15, murdered on Brazil's Amazon
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A 15-year-old indigenous boy has been murdered in Brazil on the edge of a heavily deforested indigenous reserve in the state of Maranhão, on the fringes of the Amazon. The murder, the fourth from the Guajajara tribe in recent weeks, came as a wave of racist abuse against indigenous people swept social media in the state.The Indigenous Missionary Council(CIMI), a non-profit group reported that Erisvan Soares Guajajara’s body was found with knife wounds on Friday in Amarante do Maranhão. The group said he had travelled to the town, on the edge of the Araribóia indigenous reserve, with his father. The G1 news site reported that a non-indigenous man called Roberto Silva, 31, was also killed with Erisvan and that both died in the early hours of Friday at a party in an area called Vila Industrial.Amazon indigenous leaders killed in Brazil drive-by shooting
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One month ago Pualino Guajajara, leader of the “Forest Guardians” was killed, together with a relative, by gunmen Brazil’s Maranhão state. Yesterday two indigenous leaders of his tribe have been shot dead and two others wounded. The attack on the members of the Guajajara tribe, which is known for the forest guardians who protect their territory against illegal deforestation, occurred on the margins of a federal highway near El-Betel village in the country’s north-east on Saturday.
Conflict plantations 2: the social impacts of Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL)
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New research conducted by a coalition of Indonesian organisations and the Environmental Paper Network has found that the second-largest Indonesian paper company Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) is involved in hundreds of conflicts with communities across the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Conflict Plantations: Chapter 2 delivers research results showing that in just five provinces of Indonesia, at least 101 villages or communities are in active conflict with affiliates of APRIL, or its suppliers, while more than 500 villages may have been impacted by their forestry operations.
Thousands of Romanians protest against illegal logging
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Thousands of Romanians marched in the capital Bucharest and other cities on Sunday in protest against widespread illegal logging, which is believed to be behind the deaths of two forest workers in the past two months. In downtown Bucharest, an estimated 4,000 people marched toward the water and forest ministry, according to local TV stations, banging drums and chanting “Our forest is not your commodity,” and “Thieves.”