Stand.earth statement on Amazon fires
August 23, 2019
The Amazon rainforest has been burning for 3 weeks, and is only now getting the kind of global attention that this emergency needs.
The Amazon rainforest has been burning for 3 weeks, and is only now getting the kind of global attention that this emergency needs.
Indigenous peoples throughout the region have been sounding the alarm for decades as they have been working to defend their rights and territories from an onslaught of extractive industries — ranging from soy, cattle, palm oil, and crude oil to other commodities that connect directly to those of us in developed nations.
Brazilian president Jair Bolsanaro’s fascist rhetoric and shameful policies are expanding destruction of the Amazon, and Indigenous peoples’ ways of life and rights are being trampled. The tens of thousands of fires across the region are emblematic of the urgency of the situation and the need to chart a different course.
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