Val Munduruku: How I took the fight to save the Amazon to the world stage
We see how our forests are turning into large mud pools. We see how the sources of our rivers are silting up and how their courses are diverting. We see how the tree shadows begin to disappear, how the harvested fruits are diminishing, and how the crystalline water of the Tapajós River, of the igarapés – the streams – and the springs becomes murkier by the day. Finally, we see how the smoke from many fires darkens our sunset.
All of this is happening in the Munduruku Indigenous
Territory, where I am from. I was born and raised here, along the upper course
of the Tapajós River, in the Jacareacanga municipality in Brazil’s northern
state of Pará. COVID-19 has hit our communities hard, and without any
government emergency plan for the Indigenous villages, too many of our great
leaders have died. They were the living libraries of our culture, and now they
are gone. We must act.
Yet despite the difficulties faced by coronavirus in recent months, illegal mining has not stopped. On the contrary, we have seen an alarming increase in deforestation and pollution....
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