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#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
At least two loggers have been killed with arrows, one injured, and two are missing after a clash with the “uncontacted” Mashco Piro people in the Peruvian Amazon. Indigenous activists are criticising the government for not officially recognising and protecting all of the isolated tribe’s land.
#indigenousrights #amazon #mashcopiro #loggers #peru #conservation #humanrights #tribes #deforestation #greed
More than 50 members of an uncontacted #IndigenousTribe have been photographed on a riverbank in the remote #Peruvian #Amazon near an area where #logging companies have been granted concessions by the country's government.
The large group from the #MashcoPiro appeared in recent days near the southeastern village of #MonteSalvado, which belongs to the #Yine people. A smaller group of 17 appeared near a neighboring village.
The Yine, who speak a language related to that of the Mashco Piro, have previously reported that the #UncontactedTribe has been angry about the presence of #loggers on their land, according to the #IndigenousRights group #SurvivalInternational.
“This is irrefutable evidence that many Mashco Piro live in this area, which the government has not only failed to protect, but actually sold off to logging companies,” Alfredo Vargas Pio, president of the local Indigenous rights group #FENAMAD, said in a statement from Survival International.
#Amazon #indigenous #tribe #loggers #displacement
More indigenous people displaced in the Amazon.
One of world’s most isolated tribes emerges from Amazon after loggers move in
07/17/2024
https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/17/worlds-isolated-tribe-emerges-amazon-loggers-move-21243770/
#Peru | ‘The reclusive [#MashcoPiro] tribe has been sighted coming out of the rainforest…in search of food, apparently moving away from the growing presence of #loggers, said the local #Indigenous rights group Fenamad… The Mashco Piro have also been sighted…in Brazil, said Rosa Padilha, at the Brazilian Catholic bishops’ Indigenous Missionary Council... “They flee from loggers on the Peruvian side… They are a people with no peace…they are always on the run…”.’ | Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/16/uncontacted-tribe-peru-loggers?CMP=share_btn_url
the great pacific northwest tacos of the late 1800's, we used to have forests of them
Forestry contractors convicted of 2020 assaults in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest
"TWO forestry contractors have been found guilty of assaulting two men in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest on 25 June 2020 by Coffs Harbour Local Court. Mark Graham and Andre Johnston, who were assaulted on a public road in the State Forest north of Dorrigo, have been seeking justice for more than three years."
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https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/forestry-contractors-convicted-of-2020-assaults-in-wild-cattle-creek-state-forest
#violence #NSWForestry #LoggingIndustry #loggers #NativeForest #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #environmentalists
Extraction and violence go hand in hand
How a fight to save the bush became a battlefield
"In Coffs Harbour Local Court the forestry contractors Michael Luigi Vitali and Rodney James Hearfield were found guilty of assaulting Graham and his companion Andre Johnston that afternoon on the road on the Dorrigo Plateaux three and a half years ago. No conviction was recorded."
"What she (Higginson) still believes to have been collusion between police, loggers and the FCNSW reflected a dangerous culture in which protesters are perceived by the government to be suspect automatically, while those who profit from resource extraction were above suspicion."
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https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/how-a-fight-to-save-the-bush-became-a-battlefield-20240117-p5exxc.html
#FCNSW #violence #loggers #ForestryCorporation #ethics #NativeForests #NSWLogging #CoffsHarbour #GreatKoalaNationalPark #WildCattleCreek #RiotSquad #environmentalists #protests #climate #BiodiversityCrisis
#Activists Who Sacrificed Their Lives To Save The #AmazonRainforest
by Jana Gregorio
July 31 2020
"According to reports, on average, one activist has been killed in #Brazil every week since 2002. Most of the killings happened in remote areas of the Amazon.
"#ChicoMendes was a labor leader and activist who fought against the #deforestation of the #AmazonRainforest. In 1988, Mendes was shot and killed in front of his house by a cattle rancher named Darcy Alves.
"#NazildoDosSantosBrito was an anti-#PalmOil campaigner. In 2018, Brito was shot and killed, but none of his possessions were missing. Rights groups say he was killed due to his activism in the Amazon.
"Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was a defender of Brazil’s Indigenous people. In 2019, he was killed execution-style in front of his family members.
"For decades, the Amazon Rainforest has been the target of #CattleRanchers, #farmers, #loggers, and #miners who seek to take the forest’s land and natural resources. Over the past 50 years, about 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed."
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-people-who-died-to-save-the-amazon.html
Let's have some #fun with a #poll. Choose the best option below to prevent #deforestation :
1: "#Panda Diplomacy"
Invite pandas to become tree ambassadors .
2: "Cookies for Conservation"
Implement a cookie tax, proceeds go towards #reforestation.
3: "Gamify the #Forest"
Turn forest #conservation into a #videogame.
4: "RoboForester"
Create forest-protecting #drones that scare away illegal #loggers.
Cast your #vote below!
OUR CHILDREN'S RIVER
My name is Nixon, and I'm an A'i Cofán filmmaker, artist, and member of the #Sinangoe #IndigenousGuard.
You might be wondering what that means: an Indigenous guard. To understand it better, allow me to take you on a journey into my ancestral territory in the Upper #Amazon, a land of dense #forests and towering trees, crossed by surging #rivers. A land preyed on by #loggers and #miners.
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#DirectAirCapture: Lula da Silva has officially recognized two #Indigenous territories in an attempt to #protect the #land from illegal #loggers, #miners and cattle #ranchers.
#StopDeforestation #PreserveIndigenousBiodiversity #LandBack
The massacre of Tasmania’s forests could be stopped at any time. Where are Australia’s leaders?
".. I returned to the fernery and found it destroyed, razed to the ground. Splintered branches, fern fronds and its myriad of littler ferns were now smashed into the mud. The greater fern buttress was upturned and the top of it pulverised into the bulldozer tracks. Trees to the north were tagged with blue ribbons, perhaps indicating that a cameo area there will be spared. But the magnificent heart of the fernery has been eradicated for ever."
"The loggers have come under public surveillance. When they firebomb the area those trees are likely to burn too."
"At any time the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, or Tasmanian premier, Jeremy Rockliff, could stop this needless massacre of nature."
Bob Brown is a former senator and leader of the Australian Greens and is patron of the Bob Brown Foundation.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/30/the-massacre-of-tasmanias-forests-could-be-stopped-at-any-time-where-are-australias-leaders
#forest #logging #loggers #deforestation #Australia #governance #FossilFuel #combustion #machinery #destruction #fire #firebomb #climate #biodiversity
Look, a little dead thing on the forest floor #squirrel ? The #loggers chose prime nesting season to remove the redwoods and leave a holy mess behind #sonomacounty #occidental
#Logging legislation trending. Passed #LALeg designates Wednesday, April 26, 2023 as Louisiana #Loggers Day at the state capitol.
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1622889