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Uncontacted tribe’s land invaded and destroyed for beef production

– Land clearances for cattle ranching have now reached an area where the uncontacted Piripkura are known to live.

– Roads, fencing and even an airstrip have been constructed, and hundreds of cattle brought in.

– The rate of deforestation in the territory has “exploded” – by more than 27,000% in the last two years.

OPI has also released a report on the invasion of the Piripkura lands. Their research has revealed that the Piripkura’s is now the most deforested uncontacted indigenous territory in Brazil. More than 12,000 hectares has already been destroyed.

Source: Uncontacted tribe’s land invaded and destroyed for beef production

‘No middle ground’: Chile voters face tough choice as run-off looms – BBC News

Mr Castillo belongs to a farming family and has been a Christian Democrat since he was 15.

He says that he would never vote for Mr Kast because of the candidate’s sympathetic stance on Augusto Pinochet, the general who ousted Chile’s elected president in a coup in 1973.

“I could not support with my vote – by action or omission – someone who supported Pinochet,” Mr Castillo explains.

“This has never happened before, that we had a candidate from the extreme right and a candidate who – at least in the first round – was very left-wing, probably drawn in by the Communist party.”

He insists that moderate political positions are needed now more than ever before but given the limited choice in the second round, Mr Castillo says that he is “going to choose the lesser evil”.

“Boric wasn’t and isn’t my candidate. His government plans don’t fully convince me. I don’t even think that he is the best person to lead the country but in these circumstances, I am going to choose Boric.”

Source: ‘No middle ground’: Chile voters face tough choice as run-off looms – BBC News

Lê Vĩnh Tài | NIGHT & THE CONTINUING FALLING VERSES – ĐÊM VÀ NHỮNG KHÚC RỜI (4) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Lê Vĩnh Tài, an acclaimed Vietnamese poet, born 1966 in Buon Ma Thuot, Daklak, Vietnam. The retired doctor is still a resident of the Western Highlands, an acclaimed businessman in Buon Ma Thuot. Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Lê Vĩnh Tài | NIGHT & THE CONTINUING FALLING VERSES – ĐÊM VÀ NHỮNG KHÚC RỜI (4) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

A green paradox: Deforesting the Amazon for wind energy in the Global North | openDemocracy

Balsa fever

The increased demand led to the deforestation of virgin balsa in the Amazon basin, in what came to be known as ‘balsa fever’. Balseros began to illegally deforest virgin balsa from the islands and banks of the Amazonian rivers in an effort to overcome the shortage of cultivated wood. This has had a terrible impact on the Indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, in a similarly brutal way to that caused by mining and oil extraction in recent decades, and the rubber boom at the start of the 20th century.

In 2019, the extension of a road in the Pastaza province bordering Peru through Indigenous Shuar and Achuar territory to link the community of Copataza to the western city of Puyo, caused controversy among the Achuar people.

For the most part, locals perceived the road, which was built without waiting for full Indigenous consensus, more as a threat of extractivism and deforestation than as a contribution to the potential development of their community. But it advanced like a syringe through the jungle, reaching its destination in November of that year.

Source: A green paradox: Deforesting the Amazon for wind energy in the Global North | openDemocracy