Brazil: Territories on Fire

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The Articulação Agro é Fogo, which brings together social movements, organisations and pastoralists who have been working for decades to defend the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal and the rights of their peoples and communities, has released an open letter. It denounces the worsening systematic and orchestrated occurrence of arson as a result of what we should already call climate chaos in the Amazon and other biomes. Rivers and dry land have contributed to the spread of forest fires and one of the main causes is agribusiness and its non-stop advance. The letter also denounces the fact that 70% of the funds from the federal government's main programme to fight fires have not been committed.

See the letter in English here, in Portuguese here, and in Spanish here.