Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInBOWLING GREEN Ohio (WTVG) - A Wood County grand jury indicted four women who police say they were involved in a fight in downtown Bowling Green in September The four woman are each facing one count of Felonious Assault and one count of Aggravated Riot Bowling Green police responded to the 100 block of E they saw multiple people fighting in front of Insomnia Cookies BGPD said officers began to separate the group of women when one of them told officers the other four women had just assaulted her and her friend The victim told police the four women attacked them because they allegedly said her friend was a rapist Officers then noticed the victim had a bump forming above her eyebrow and was taken to a nearby hospital to get checked out The alleged attackers were identified as Ziegler video footage of the area showed the victim standing on the sidewalk outside of Sterling’s Amish Deli when her friend approached her Atalaia and Teayra Carver can be seen exiting the deli and exchanging words with the victim before Mijah Carver and Ziegler joined them BGPD says the women then allegedly began pushing and punching the victim The victim’s friend tried to intervene but Ziegler allegedly put him in a headlock and knocked him on the ground before Atalaia allegedly began to repeatedly kick him footage shows Teayra Carver and Mijah Carver continuing to attack the victim until police officers arrived to break up the fight Latest Local News | First Alert Weather | Crime | National | 13abc Originals Scores of Indigenous families have left their territory in the Javari Valley for the impoverished city of Atalaia do Norte some in pursuit of a better education and drawn by a federal benefit that can ensnare them in the city Tumi Tuku works in a bakery in Atalaia do Norte Tumi lives far from the village of his father seeking to carve out a living in the impoverished city of Atalaia do Norte FILE - The Itaquai River snakes through the Javari Valley Indigenous territory FILE - Indigenous people march to protest against the killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips who’ve known the outside world for less than 50 years now have about half of their 600-strong population now live in the city poses in front of his office in Atalaia do Norte Binin Matis said he fears profound consequences for his people including the loss of language and involvement in illegal drugs Raul Dunum Mayoruna talk with The Associated Press in Atalaia do Norte an area approximately the size of Portugal About half of the 6,200 Indigenous people in the Javari Valley now live in urban centers according to estimates by anthropologist Wadick who coordinated a census in Atalaia do Norte in 2019 poses at her family home in Atalaia do Norte Marubo said Indigenous people who come to Atalaia Do Norte for a better education can wind up being frustrated FILE - A fisherman navigates his boat on the Itaquai river Fisherman Antonio Alves poses for a photo in in Atalaia do Norte some in pursuit of a better education and drawn by a federal benefit that can ensnare them in the city. Indigenous families in the city can also face hostility from non-Indigenous residents who see them as competition for limited resources FILE - A Matis Indigenous man takes part in a protest against the killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips FILE - A motorist moves down a street in Atalaia do Norte Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government’s expedition on the banks of the Itui River in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest he and his father accepted machetes and soap in what was the beginning of the Matis tribe’s contact with the non-Indigenous world the quality of education is not as good as in the city,” said Tumi who hopes to go to college to study medicine or journalism “I want to engage with non-Indigenous people and perhaps one day return to my village to share my understanding of how the city functions with the elders.” according to estimates by anthropologist Almério Alves Wadick one of several Indigenous peoples in the region say almost half their 600 people now live in that city who leads the Matis Indigenous Association and takes the name of his people as his surname Binin Matis said he fears the loss of his people’s language and their exposure to drugs there are few people; it’s the older leaders “No young Matis knows how to make a blowgun When the students go to the village for vacation the main association for Indigenous peoples in the Javari Valley worries that the migration will lead to cuts in health and education programs and the potential revocation of Indigenous territories that might then be opened for mining and drilling Univaja recently established its own surveillance team to guard against illegal fishermen miners and loggers — a duty previously carried out by the villages The initiative is crucial to protect isolated Indigenous who could be imperiled by something as simple as flu carried by invaders Indigenous families also face hostility from non-Indigenous residents who see them as competition for limited resources and they fish on our side,” said fisherman Antonio Alves The Indigenous migration is being driven in part by a federal program created 20 years ago in Lula’s first term The Bolsa Familia program was launched to provide cash to families if they immunize their children and keep them in school Tens of thousands of Indigenous families started frequenting cities to withdraw the benefit from state bank branches Indigenous people unaccustomed to handling money sometimes pay more than they should for long boat trips or have their debit cards illegally retained by unscrupulous merchants as collateral for installment or credit purchases the Bolsa Familia payout isn’t enough to get them back home “They conclude that it’s better to stay in the city receiving this amount and putting it towards studying since there isn’t even a complete primary education in the village,” said Wadick Indigenous leaders say village schools are in shambles from poor maintenance and lack of oversight by governments Many Indigenous teachers have been spending long periods in the city But the money isn’t enough to cover life in the city plus small additions for pregnant women and for children depending on age Indigenous people often compete against each other for poorly paying jobs like collecting garbage or sweeping streets we could sustain ourselves with $125,” said Tumi who recently left the bakery to work for Univaja The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples is seeking to rework parts of the program so Indigenous peoples don’t have to travel as often to collect payment Proposals include extending the withdrawal period for the money and flexible payment dates Another major ministry goal is to improve education in Indigenous territories to reduce the incentive to leave That’s a daunting task with high costs for huge said her ideal is culturally adapted village schools where students have access to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge without needing to be in the city But she was shocked by what she found when she recently visited her native region deep in the Javari Valley to film a documentary about her life “I always have in my mind lots of children and young people this time the visit was very sad,” she said “I found an abandoned village with only four elderly women.” Haiti and Honduras cited for advances  2020 (PAHO) -- Six municipalities were awarded “Malaria Champions of the Americas” prizes for 2020 for their work in applying effective safe malaria interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in four countries.   The awards were presented at a Malaria Day in the Americas event today by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Videos illustrating each of the projects were shown at the forum titled “Zero malaria starts with me: Fight COVID-19 The winning projects include two from Brazil in the localities of Les Anglais and Les Irois “We are in unprecedented times but our support and commitment to the global efforts against malaria elimination is stronger than ever,” said Dr “Urgent action is needed to get the global response to malaria back on track – and ownership of the challenge lies in the hands of countries most affected by malaria,” he added.  Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes Approximately half of the world's population is at risk of malaria particularly those living in lower-income countries In the Americas 132 million people live in areas at risk of malaria.  The theme for Malaria Day in the Americas 2020 is “Zero malaria starts with me” and it highlights the importance of sustained malaria efforts while protecting health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Despite the progress of some countries in the Region toward eliminating the disease and the sustained trend in reduction of malaria from 2005 to 2014 in recent years the Region of the Americas experienced an increase in the total number of cases and deaths.  malaria cases increased by 69% and deaths rose by 111% mainly from surges in transmission and outbreaks of malaria in areas with complex socio-political and economic challenges It is unclear what effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on malaria cases.   The winning experiences included Brazil’s Atalaia do Norte where active community participation combined with surveillance and treatment helped combat malaria in a community with a large indigenous population The other Brazil project in Oeiras do Para received the award for cutting the malaria burden from 11,000 cases in 2018 to less than 1,000 cases in 2020 and dropping from the third highest malaria endemic municipality to the 27th.   won the Malaria Champion award for its “effective operational innovations to ensure safe delivery of health services in extremely challenging environments and among vulnerable populations.”  two municipalities with high malaria burdens, Les Anglais Department of Grand’Anse were named Malaria Champions for effective planning and strong partnerships using a community health worker approach to reduce their malaria burdens.  The Honduras municipality of Puerto Lempira won the award for its “effective efforts in protecting achievements towards malaria elimination in a previously high burden municipality All the awarded experiences were recognized for efforts in operating under continuing challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic -.  The awards were presented based on the endorsement of a jury panel chaired by Karen A CEO of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.  Partners involved in Malaria Champions include PAHO the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Communication Programs and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Health.  The journalist and Indigenous expert travelled upstream in Brazil’s far western Amazon region a trip from which they did not return alive • There is a war on nature. Dom Phillips was killed trying to warn you about it • The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira – a timeline There is a war on nature. Dom Phillips was killed trying to warn you about it The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira – a timeline a speckled South American peacock bass whose Indigenous name means “friend of the trees” It was in a hotel room named after the tucunaré that the British journalist spent his last night before venturing into the jungle with the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira on the afternoon of Thursday 2 June But before checking out of the hotel in the river town of Atalaia do Norte After discovering that his hosts ran an eco-tourism company for fishing enthusiasts the veteran correspondent grabbed his Dictaphone pulled up a white plastic chair and began peppering them with questions about the Amazon and their sustainable work Dom Phillips takes notes on a previous trip to a remote part of Brazil Photograph: João Laet/AFP/Getty Images“He sat down right there with a recorder just like this one,” said Rubeney de Castro Alves breaking down in tears as he remembered his brief encounter with Phillips and the smile-filled selfie they took before he left the British journalist told Castro Alves he would return from the rainforest in three days “RETORNO – DOMINGO,” the hotelier wrote on his check-in card next to Phillips’s squiggly handwriting “BACK – SUNDAY.” He underlined the second word for emphasis heading a few hundred metres down the road to the dilapidated river port where he and Pereira would begin their final voyage As their motorboat set forth into the murky brown waters under a cloud-filled sky a friend standing on the dockside used his mobile phone to take two grainy photographs of the pair – perhaps the last existing images of the men who by then had less than three days to live The last known picture of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira on their journey into the Amazon ahead of their disappearance Photograph: No creditFrom Atalaia do Norte the men headed south along the meandering River Itaquaí They stopped at a riverside hamlet to collect some paddles Pereira had commissioned for the Indigenous people whose cause he had championed Phillips told its owners they were heading down a different river the Javari – seemingly a security measure adopted as a result of the threats Pereira had received because of his activism in a lawless border region rife with environmental crime and drug trafficking Phillips told Castro Alves they would visit the Curuçá Indigenous protection base which guards one of the entry points to the Javari Valley territory, an Austria-sized expanse of rainforest that is home to more than 20 Indigenous communities, the majority uncontacted. “Perhaps it was a strategy to throw people off their scent. I think it must have been,” said Castro Alves, a close friend of Pereira. In fact, Pereira and Phillips were travelling up the Itaquaí to the Lago do Jaburu, where Indigenous activists have created a riverside surveillance point to monitor the illegal fishing gangs pillaging fish stocks within the Javari territory. Read moreWith their boat’s 40-horsepower outboard motor it would have taken about two hours to arrive The men spent their first night sleeping in hammocks as the jungle around them erupted in a bewitching symphony of bird and insect song Early the next day Phillips, who was writing a book called How to Save the Amazon, began his interviews with members of the 13-strong surveillance team tasked with keeping environmental criminals out of an Indigenous territory that is home to the greatest concentration of uncontacted peoples on Earth Friday and Saturday,” said one of those Indigenous guards “Dom asked me what was happening in the Javari Valley ‘Why are you patrolling it?’ I said it was because fishermen and invaders were coming into our territory to steal our wildlife – tracajá river turtles and pirarucu fish,” said Matis which means Paradise in the Pano language spoken by his people “In the cities people are cutting the trees down Here we are protecting the forests,” Matis told the reporter proudly Tumi Matis in adidas top during the search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira Photograph: Tom Phillips/The GuardianAndrew Fishman an American journalist who talked often with Phillips about the book while paddleboarding off Rio’s Copacabana beach said his friend had made a succession of trips to the Amazon since the project was conceived three years ago Having undertaken a punishing 17-day expedition with Pereira deep into the Javari Valley for the Guardian in 2018 “He was eager to go back and see how things had changed in the few years since he had been there,” Fishman said 1:22Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira filmed on Amazon expedition in 2018 – video“He seemed really excited about the book and a little bit nervous about its ambitious scope “He wanted to make it a mainstream book so that it alerted everybody to the problems with the deforestation and the destruction of the Amazon,” said the journalist’s sister “He wanted to find people to talk to in the Amazon who could tell their story Those who met Phillips on the final reporting trip of a 15-year career in Brazil say he seemed in his element as he toured the isolated jungle region seeking insights that would help explain the complexities of the battle to save the Amazon The Itaquai River snakes through the Javari Valley Indigenous territory Photograph: Edmar Barros/AP“He seemed cheerful – he said he loved his work,” said Orlando Possuelo another leading member of the new generation of Brazilian Indigenistas and the son of the legendary Indigenous defender and explorer Sydney Possuelo Possuelo offered a word of warning to Phillips during their two-hour meeting in Atalaia do Norte at the headquarters of Univaja – the Indigenous rights group where Pereira worked after being sidelined from Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency during the government of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. In February, one of the men now in custody for the murders of Pereira and Phillips, a fisherman called Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, allegedly fired shots at Pereira and another colleague on the Itaquaí. “I told him: ‘Take care in the region you’re going to. Did you know they’d shot at Bruno?” Possuelo remembered saying. “Really?” Phillips replied, before returning to his hotel to pack. Read morePereira’s friends say he refused to be intimidated by the threats and the increasingly violent atmosphere that has gripped Brazil since the 2018 election of a president who has overseen what activists call a historic assault on Indigenous rights and the environment. “These fishermen aren’t capable of killing me,” Pereira recently told a friend a Brazilian journalist who has written extensively on the Amazon “He thought they were empty threats,” Valente said Phillips and Pereira started heading back down the Itaquaí towards Atalaia do Norte en route to a cold beer and a hot shower They stopped briefly at a riverside village to talk to a local fisherman but left after being told he was not home Minutes after retaking the river they were dead ambushed and dragged into a nearby patch of jungle where they were buried in the ground The search operation belatedly included resources deployed by the Brazilian military Photograph: João Laet/AFP/Getty ImagesTheir belongings were stashed in a nearby patch of flooded forest where Indigenous search teams found items including Phillips’s backpack and a pair of trousers belonging to Pereira who is in Atalaia do Norte to report on the murder of his friend “The truth is that this was a death foretold … it is an irreparable loss.” Orlando Possuelo. Photograph: João Laet/AFP/Getty ImagesAs he sat outside the hotel room Pereira had occupied before journeying into the rainforest, named after the Mayuruna people of the Javari, Valente fell silent and shook his head in disbelief. Night had fallen by the time Phillips and Pereira recommenced their river journey, from almost the same point at which it had been so brutally interrupted. At around 6.40pm on Wednesday they set off down the Itaquaí towards Atalaia do Norte in a three-vessel cortege led by a white ambulance boat and escorted by army troops. Minutes later Orlando Possuelo emerged from the jungle, where a crestfallen Amarildo da Costa Oliveira had led police to the burial site. “I’ve destroyed my life. I’ve destroyed the lives of my family,” the alleged killer was heard muttering. Possuelo headed downriver to the Indigenous search base he has been coordinating since the hunt for Pereira and Phillips started almost two weeks ago. Read more“It feels like mission accomplished,” said Possuelo, surrounded by Indigenous volunteers from the Marubo, Kanamari and Matis peoples, who played such a key role in bringing the men home. “We always say when we go about our work that we will never leave anyone behind - and we stayed here and we fought for our colleague,” Possuelo said As the group dismantled their riverside encampment and prepared to cast off Possuelo said his focus would now shift to another equally crucial mission: securing justice for the families of both murdered men the boat carrying Phillips and Pereira powered homewards through the darkness towards a perfect full moon The man was told to isolate himself in a house he shares with 14 other indigenous people The local health system lacked capacity for testing so samples were supposedly being sent to Manaus Atalaia do Norte has no road contact with the rest of Brazil It takes up to three days to travel to Manaus by boat and planes (which can fly to Manaus in three hours) are currently grounded as part of the strategy to halt the pandemic’s spread Atalaia do Norte officials claimed that the samples had been sent instead to a laboratory in Tabatinga (Lafron) near the Colombian border and that the results came back negative for coronavirus However, a journalist from Amazônia Real checked with the laboratory, only to learn from its director that it had done no testing for coronavirus to date When confronted with this complete contradiction of the city’s official reporting the health department admitted to “the communication mistake.” They said that the COVID-19 suspicion was discarded without testing and that the family had since returned to health Whether the family contracted the virus and suffered a mild case of COVID-19 If the family did contract the highly contagious virus it is possible that while they were sick it could have been conveyed to other family members who showed little or no sign of the disease and eventually may have spread it to others in the remote region The arrival of COVID-19 in Atalaia do Norte could have dramatic and dangerous consequences with 15,000 inhabitants and the third lowest Human Development Index (HDI) in Brazil is the gateway to the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory encompassing 8.5 million hectares (32,818 square miles) The reserve is one of Brazil’s most important indigenous areas The demarcated and government-recognized reserve also contains the world’s largest number of isolated indigenous peoples No fewer than 16 of the 26 Javari Valley groups are peoples who have chosen to remain isolated The official government policy today is not to contact these groups. After earlier attempts to contact isolated groups resulted in the death of at least half their population decided in 1988 to change its previous policy and leave isolated indigenous groups in peace only contacting them in extreme circumstances This policy has been widely seen as successful with isolated groups managing to survive and It is these groups that Ethnos360, an evangelical group formerly known as the New Tribes Mission, in open defiance of FUNAI’s policy, is planning to contact with its newly purchased helicopter to convert them to Christianity as it did with the Zo’é Indians in Pará state in the 1980s Yara Marubo notes that while isolated groups are shielded from outside contact outsiders move freely throughout their territory potentially paving the way for the spread of disease Earlier this month many anthropologists feared FUNAI was going to relax its “no contact” rule making it easier for outsiders to enter areas with isolated Indians only FUNAI’s central body — the General Coordination of Isolated and Recently Contacted Indians (CGIIRC) — could authorize contact Then on 13 March FUNAI abruptly changed its procedures allowing each of the 39 regional coordinators the power to grant contact authorization Although FUNAI presented the change in a positive light, saying it permitted “action essential for the survival of the isolated group[s],” action that might be required if the pandemic expanded into indigenous areas such as the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) expressed concern over “regional directors often political appointees without adequate technical expertise,” being allowed to initiate contact general coordinator of the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) noted that FUNAI under Bolsonaro has “made new appointments of heads of Regional Coordination mainly in territories with isolated Indians They have put military officers there and military officers obey orders.” only giving CGIIRC authority to authorize contact If coronavirus does expand into remote indigenous Amazon villages, it couldn’t happen at a worse time. Brazil’s health service — greatly weakened by the Bolsonaro administration — will very likely find it nearly impossible to cope The indigenous health service is run by the Special Indigenous Health Sanitary Districts (DISEI) linked to the Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health (SESAI) a former FUNAI employee and a consultant on indigenous people this service was operating well until late 2018 largely thanks to Mais Médicos (More Doctors) a health program that brought hundreds of Cuban doctors into remote parts of Brazil the whole service has been badly damaged,” said Vaz The current lack of skilled doctors is compounded by the remoteness of Amazon indigenous communities a long way away from urban centers with coronavirus testing facilities and other vital treatment equipment and medical experts SESAI used to provide transport by boat or air in emergencies. But with the drastic budget cuts under Bolsonaro, it often doesn’t have the money to do so. “We feel very vulnerable,” said Dinamam Tuxá a lawyer and member of the executive council of the Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) “They [SESAI] also aren’t providing medicinal alcohol and we haven’t the money to buy it.” Brazil’s indigenous groups have received a promise from the government that could improve the situation the health ministry will be contracting 5,811 additional doctors to help deal with the pandemic Some will be working in indigenous villages though no one yet knows how many or when they might arrive analysts worry that the social chaos that could ensue in an indigenous pandemic would offer openings for elite ruralists land grabbers and criminal mafias to exploit the situation taking control of ancestral lands claimed by indigenous communities and isolated Indians “Two fronts threaten isolated peoples,” said Vaz “One front is targeting their territory and is led by agribusiness mining companies and engineering companies wants their souls.” He went on: “At this moment of crisis FUNAI should be sending in the army to evict loggers not coming up with a pretext for possible contact.” “But if [the government] wants to exterminate the Indians Banner image caption: These Sapanawa Indians living near the Brazil / Peru border made contact in 2014 Isolated indigenous people like them are now likely at high risk of coronavirus only to learn from the lab’s director that it had done no coronavirus testing the health department admitted to “the communication error.” The three indigenous people who had symptoms similar to COVID-19 have since returned to health though no one knows whether or not they may have been infected with a mild case of COVID-19 potentially spreading it to other family members and beyond FEEDBACK: Use this form to send a message to the author of this post The “fortress conservation” model is under pressure in East Africa as protected areas become battlegrounds over history and global efforts to halt biodiversity loss Mongabay’s Special Issue goes beyond the region’s world-renowned safaris to examine how rural communities and governments are reckoning with conservation’s colonial origins and trying to forge a path forward […] By Associated Press World news Federal Police arrive to reinforce the search and investigation into the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira in Atalaia do Norte Brazil >> Two men who were with a British journalist and an Indigenous official a day before they went missing in the Amazon said Thursday that they had unsuccessfully tried to get authorities to intervene after three fishermen threatened the group by brandishing guns and Indigenous official Bruno Pereira were last seen on Sunday morning in the Javari Valley Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory which sits in an isolated area bordering Peru and Colombia The two men were in the Sao Rafael community and returning by boat to the nearby city of Atalaia do Norte Phillips and Pereira had been threatened by the men brandishing guns the president of a Javari Valley association of Indigenous people Marubo said that Phillips photographed the men at the time including local resident Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira Costa de Oliveira was being held in Atalaia do Norte and is considered the main suspect in the disappearance two men who were with Phillips and Pereira when the fishermen showed up said they went to the nearby federal base that has permanent presence of Brazil’s bureau office for Indigenous affairs “We went there but they did nothing,” said Raimundo Mayoruna “They didn’t go after Pelado at all are part of a local group that watches that area of the river They said they were with Phillips and Pereira at a hut on Saturday when the incident took place Messages seeking comment from FUNAI and the National Guard were not immediately answered The details emerged as search parties on Thursday narrowed their area of focus and top news editors soccer superstars and Hollywood celebrities urged the Brazilian government to intensify efforts to find the men AP journalists traveled by boat Thursday along the stretch of the Itaquai River where the pair disappeared The area is inhabited by some riverside communities and serves as the main gateway to the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land inhabited by about 6,000 Indigenous people spread over a region the size of Portugal Federal Police investigators have concluded that the two disappeared in a stretch between a resident’s house and the mouth of the Quixito River All the search efforts were concentrated on this stretch whose barge arrived in the region on Thursday two recently contacted Matis Indians were looking for traces of the missing pair they explained that they had found nothing Other teams did not report seeing any clues as to the whereabouts of the two a volunteer dropped an anchor in the river explaining that when it touches something different at the bottom of the river he has to search the riverbed with his hands The difficult search comes as Indigenous leaders on the ground family members and peers of Pereira and Phillips have expressed concern that authorities’ search efforts were insufficient and lacked coordination civil society groups and international news organizations have joined their call Actor Mark Ruffalo called on Twitter for an “international response” stressing the worrying number of journalists being “attacked where Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and President Joe Biden met Thursday two trucks parked in the middle of an avenue displayed messages along with large illustrations of Phillips and Pereira WHERE ARE DOM & BRUNO?” read one of the messages lawmakers have also turned to Twitter calling for swift action member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who said on Wednesday that “Brazil must not delay a robust search and accountability process.” Others included Rep chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Led by The Guardian and The Washington Post where Phillips worked as a freelance journalist international news editors and organizations published a joint letter Thursday directed to Bolsonaro asking that he “urgently step up and fully resource the effort.” Signatories included The New Yorker Bolsonaro drew criticism when describing the two men’s work in the Amazon as an “adventure.” just two people in a boat in a completely wild region like that is not a recommended adventure it could be that they have been killed,” he said in an interview with television network SBT “We hope and ask God that they’re found soon including soccer superstar Pelé and actor Camila Pitanga expressed concern over the disappearances has reported from Brazil for more than a decade and has most recently been working on a book about preservation of the Amazon Pereira has long operated in Javari Valley for the Brazilian Indigenous affairs agency He oversaw their regional office and the coordination of isolated Indigenous groups before going on leave to help local Indigenous people defend themselves against illegal fishermen and poachers The Javari Valley has one of the world’s largest population of Indigenous people with no or little contact with the outside world Despite fierce resistance from the local non-Indigenous population the federal government in 2001 created the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory aiming to protect an area about the size of Portugal Non-Indigenous communities just outside the newly established protected land had historically fished within it There have been repeated shootouts between hunters fishermen and official security agents in the area It is also a major route for cocaine produced on the Peruvian side of the border then smuggled into Brazil to supply local cities or to be shipped to Europe Late Wednesday evening, Brazilian authorities announced that they have located what they believe to be the bodies of journalist Dom Phillips (57) and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira (41). As previously reported Phillips and Pereira went missing near the Vale do Javari region on June 5 regional police chief Eduardo Fontes explained that the lead suspect confessed to shooting both men and led investigators to the location of their remains he informed us the location where the bodies were buried and he promised to go with us today to the site so we could confirm where the bodies were buried.” Interpol is now working with Brazilian officials to confirm the victims’ identities Graphic: The Guardian/CNN/Global Forest Watch That site was in an area known as the Lago do Preguiça approximately three kilometres inland from the River Itaquaí and 1.5 hours up river from the town of Atalaia do Norte Phillips and Pereira were due to arrive in Atalaia do Norte the morning of their disappearance An eyewitness for The Guardian reported seeing officials remove two bodies from Lago do Preguiça and transport them by boat to Atalaia do Norte Wednesday night Police chief Eduardo Fontes speaks at the press briefing on June 15 Fontes also indicated that search teams will return to the area on Thursday and that more arrests are likely Phillips and Pereira were ardent proponents of environmental preservation and Indigenous rights in Brazil The two men had traveled to the Javari valley to conduct research for a book on Amazon rainforest conservation The 10-day search was a coordinated effort involving Brazil’s police force the case of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira has shed light on the dangers that advocates for environmental and Indigenous protections face under the country’s far-right president Sign up to receive ExplorersWeb content direct to your inbox once a week The Living Care Association said in a statement that as part of its regular testing plan for users and employees four new positive cases of Covid-19 were detected “These cases were detected among external personnel assigned to the kitchen of the Atalaia Living Care Unit who are not in direct contact with users and employees in direct healthcare provision” the Living Care Association appealed to companies providing outsourcing services in its Units so that they also regularly test their employees The same note points out that under the regular testing plan implemented by Living Care in its Units at the beginning of last December approximately one thousand antigen tests have already been carried out in close collaboration with the Regional Secretariat of Health and Civil Protection through the Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Madeira users and employees of the Lar de Câmara de Lobos “On behalf of the Living Care Association the Regional Secretary for Health and Civil Protection the Regional Secretary of Social Inclusion and Citizenship and the Regional Government of Madeira in the person of the President of the Regional Government of Madeira all the collaboration that has been provided to the units managed by the Living Care Association in this fight for the health of all” From Jornal Madeira Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email and a Yanomami Indigenous man walk in Maloca Papiu village Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira have been reported missing in a remote part of Brazil’s Amazon region a local Indigenous association said Monday Brazil (AP) — The Amazon region’s Javari Valley where a British journalist and an Indigenous affairs official are missing is Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory and sits in an isolated area bordering Peru and Colombia Crime there is rife and government oversight scant adding to fears about the duo’s whereabouts and condition The Javari Valley has been the stage for decades-long tension between Indigenous tribes and descendants of rubber tappers who live in dozens of communities along the region’s riverbanks established a permanent base at the strategic point where the Itui and the Itaquai rivers meet There have been shootouts in recent years between officials and invaders Pereira was previously the head of FUNAI’s bureau there the locals don’t accept that they can’t fish hunt or cut wood there,” Armando Soares Filho a retired FUNAI official who was in charge of monitoring the area’s uncontacted tribes between 2003 and 2005 “Colombians and Peruvians also considered the area as a reserve for them to take whatever they want.” Demand for fish in the region has increased as populations grow in Brazilian city of Tabatinga and Colombia’s Leticia And as fish stocks became scarce in the Amazon River the Javari Valley has become an even more coveted resource Foreign tourists to Leticia are likely to eat fish caught illegally The past decade has seen a surge of coca crops planted in Peru where law enforcement is even scarcer than on the Brazilian side of the border Traffickers process coca to make cocaine in Peru then send it through Brazil’s sparsely populated Javari Valley and Amazon River It is then distributed among major cities of the region and from there to other Brazilian cities or to Europe the Sao Paulo-based First Command of the Capital and Rio de Janeiro-based Red Command fought for control of Amazonas Amazonas is now Brazil’s most violent state per capita after a 54% increase in the number of murders last year the nonprofit Brazilian Forum of Public Security and the University of Sao Paulo Eleven Indigenous groups live in voluntary isolation within the Javari Valley the country’s biggest concentration of them — about 6,000 people in all Brazilian law says contact with isolated tribes is only permitted as a last resort to preserve their lives Many members of these tribes or their ancestors have been traumatized by contact with outsiders Pereira led one of these rare missions to reach an uncontacted Indigenous population there in March 2019 shortly after President Jair Bolsonaro took office and weeks before he went on leave from FUNAI Pereira and another 22 men were sent in to find a group of the Korubo Indigenous community and reunite them with relatives arguing at the time it was necessary to prevent confrontation with another Indigenous group in the region FUNAI and the army are the only government authorities present in the Javari area a FUNAI employee was shot dead in Tabatinga which locals say has contributed to a growing sense of impunity Environmental and Indigenous rights groups have argued that Bolsonaro’s public stance regarding Indigenous territories has helped embolden some to engage in illicit activity without fear of reprisals Bolsonaro took office in January 2019 while pledging to bring development to the Amazon much to the alarm of environmentalists and Indigenous rights groups He quickly changed much of FUNAI’s leadership swapping out career Indigenous affairs officials for military officers He also appointed an Evangelical pastor who had been a missionary in Javari Valley to lead the agency’s isolated tribes sector Bolsonaro has often advocated for tapping Indigenous territories’ resources He has openly rejected demarcating new lands for native peoples and on April 25 promised he wouldn’t do so even if ordered by Brazil’s Supreme Court He says his opponents don’t have the national interest at heart and at times has alleged they are agents for foreign meddlers for what he claims to be misleading coverage of deforestation that has surged on his watch to the the worst in 15 years who say Indigenous people should be protected saying instead they should be integrated and that they desire economic development It remains unclear what became of Phillips and Pereira Pereira is an ally to Indigenous movements but divisive among others in the area as he had often led operations to seize fish turtle eggs and other illegally extracted animal products Pereira has been helping Javari’s local Indigenous association organize an independent surveillance network to locate and expel invaders — be they illegal fishermen Pereira had received a steady stream of threats for his work Phillips joined him on the most recent trip as part of research for a book on Amazon conservation which is the primary access route to the Javari Valley and whose banks are home to dozens of non-Indigenous families with at least several craft passing each day primarily small canoes powered by low-power outboard motors would have become lost or that a mechanical problem would have forced the pair to seek overland passage Locals have speculated that they may have been ambushed confessed to murdering and burying the two men and then sinking their boat in the Itaquai River It was the outcome everyone feared after almost two weeks of an intensive search along the stretch of river where the men disappeared on June 5 Their violent death in the Javari Valley–an area the size of Panama where at least 10 uncontacted indigenous groups live–is much more than a tragic incident “The tragedy clearly shows that the [Brazilian] Amazon is a region awash in lawlessness that is encouraged by [President] Bolsonaro.” The indigenous trackers who mobilized a few hours after the two men were reported missing focus their search on a jungle area furrowed by a meandering river Security forces joined in the search a day after the disappearance was reported The search centers on a 10-square-kilometer area where the river makes several turns and which is relatively close to the town of Atalaia do Norte and leads the police to the ditch where he buried the bodies the police hold a press conference to report that two bodies had been found and provide some initial details about the circumstances of the disappearance the Brazilian government agency responsible for protecting the country’s indigenous peoples were returning to Atalaia do Norte after a trip upriver to Jaburu Lake Phillips went there to interview some local men who manned a guard post to detect illegal invasions of Javari land colleagues of the indigenous trackers who later searched for the missing men an association of ethnic groups that have joined forces to defend indigenous lands in the absence of any government protection Phillips and Pereira are last seen by residents of a village called São Gabriel All this is goingPolice find “organic material that appears to be human” in the river.An indigenous source who knows this remote part of the Javari Valley tells EL PAÍS, “Everything indicates that it was not an accident, that they were ambushed A boat with seven empty gasoline drums doesn’t just disappear like that The men and all the evidence evaporated.”ja members document and submit reports of illegal invasions to the authorities in hopes that they would enforce the law they used a combination of ancestral knowledge and state-of-the-art technology as Pereira and Phillips were returning from their trip begins pursuing them in his boat at high speed The fisherman and well-known poacher opens fire He has four other people on board his boat A confrontation ensues and Pelado’s group overpowers Pereira and Phillips Pereira was used to being threatened and was often armed and the Univaja team had been threatened by Pelado and other poachers The poachers sink the men’s boat engine in the river When Pereira and Phillips fail to return as scheduled start searching but cannot locate the men and find no signs of an accident Pereira is an experienced jungle traveler and knows how to survive in this hostile environment Pereira provided the police and Ministry of Justice officials with detailed information about a criminal network allegedly involved in illegal fishing and poaching information gathered by the indigenous patrol teams was recently used to confiscate illegal catches Monday, June 6. Indigenous people report the disappearance to the authorities The first group of police officers join the search The government announces the allocation of more resources The families and colleagues of the two missing men demand a faster response because time is of the essence They criticize the government’s failure to deploy aircraft The Ministry of Defense issues a statement that it is ready to assist but that it is awaiting orders from superiors Indignation about the slow government response spreads among the families and colleagues of the missing men the attackers move the bodies and bury them three kilometers inland from the river Police report that Pelado confessed to sandbagging and sinking the men’s boat A forensic analyses will confirm the identities of the bodies and the cause of death and soldiers in two boats and a jet ski to aid in the search Relatives again criticize the failure to deploy any aircraft Colleagues of the two men launch an international awareness campaign asking records a video imploring authorities: “Even if the love of my life is dead Please accelerate the search.” Pereira’s partner Any part of the river or jungle that has not been searched could be the place where they are waiting to be rescued.” “Two people on a boat trip in a completely wild area like this– it’s an adventure that’s not at all advisable They could have had an accident or been murdered.” and Pelado is arrested after an eyewitness to the June 5 chase testifies He is initially charged only with illegal possession of restricted-use ammunition but later he is formally named as a suspect in the disappearance of Pereira and Phillips When the Brazilian news media report that Pelado’s two defense lawyers are government officials not uncommon in remote areas of the country Bolsonaro and Biden meet for the first time during the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles (California) The public outcry demanding more government resources to aid in the search reaches the ears of summit delegates Police find “organic material that appears to be human” in the river An indigenous source who knows this remote part of the Javari Valley tells EL PAÍS “Everything indicates that it was not an accident The first solid information in the case comes out Univaja trackers find a backpack tied to a tree in a flooded area near where the missing men were last seen Inside the backpack are Pereira’s health card the second in command at the Embassy of Brazil in London notifies Phillips’ brothers that he has some news Doring communicated with them through “an official Brazilian spokesperson,” according to the Phillips family “He told us that two bodies had been found but had not yet been identified.” Phillips’ wife released this information which was published by many Brazilian and international news outlets The Brazilian police later issued a statement that “The reports that the bodies have been found are not true.” The Brazilian ambassador later apologized to the Phillips family President Bolsonaro comments on the case again “There are indications that something evil was done to them because human entrails were found floating in the river It has been taken to Brasilia for DNA testing.” A second suspect is arrested—Pelado’s brother The federal police chief in Amazonas confirms in a late-night press conference in Manaus that the bodies of Pereira and Phillips have been found He provides additional information about Pelado’s confession “Now we can bring them home and lovingly say our goodbyes,” said Phillips’ wife “And today we will begin seeking justice for them.” ¿Quieres añadir otro usuario a tu suscripción ¿Por qué estás viendo esto? cambia tu suscripción a la modalidad Premium Cada uno accederá con su propia cuenta de email lo que os permitirá personalizar vuestra experiencia en EL PAÍS ¿Tienes una suscripción de empresa? 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E-edition PLUS unlimited articles & videos Personalized news alerts with our mobile app *Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories Amazon Indigenous tribal leaders worry their villages and culture will wither and leave their people mired in poverty amid an exodus from the rainforest to urban areas Indigenous people march to protest against the killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips who've known the outside world for less than 50 years A fisherman navigates his boat on the Itaquai river A Matis Indigenous man takes part in a protest against the killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips The Itaquai River snakes through the Javari Valley Indigenous territory A motorist moves down a street in Atalaia do Norte in front of his office in Atalaia do Norte and Raul Dunum Mayoruna in Atalaia do Norte Fisherman Antonio Alves poses in Atalaia do Norte Thousands of Indigenous are migrating to cities like Atalaia do Norte leaving villages to wither and raising concern that the world’s largest tropical rainforest — crucial to stemming the worst of climate change — will be left without its most effective guardians Thousands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Poaching of endangered species flourishes despite widespread outcry – but sustainable fishing could end the violence engulfing the trade There was the time, along the Japurá River, that an illegal fisherman threatened to butcher him if he didn’t get out of town. “You’d better leave or we’ll harpoon you,” Damasceno remembers being told. Read moreA few years later he narrowly escaped being ambushed and murdered in another remote corner of the rainforest – just as Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were last year breaking down as he describes how the failure of his boat’s engine saved him from running into a group of heavily armed assassins who were lying in wait Damasceno isn’t an Indigenous activist or journalist whose killings exposed the environmental battle raging deep in South America’s rainforests He is a fishing engineer who has dedicated his life to convincing small riverside communities that sustainable fishing programs will benefit them more than the quick short-term profits offered by the illegal fishing mafias that pillage the region’s rivers and Indigenous lands José Maria Batista Damasceno the fisheries engineer in charge of the pirarucu fish management project in the São Rafael community the last stop of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips before they were ambushed and killed in a deserted stretch of the Itaguaí River Photograph: João Laet/The GuardianThose efforts to encourage green living have put Damasceno on the wrong side of environmental criminals “I’ve always relied on God to protect me from evil – and here I am carrying on with my mission,” says the softly spoken sustainable fishing evangelist who recently travelled to the region where Pereira and Phillips were killed hoping to promote sustainable fishing there The world in which Damasceno operates is one of hidden dangers, cut-throat rules and huge illegal profits, where highly organized gangs of poachers with suspected ties to international drug trafficking groups prey on endangered Amazon species such as the pirarucu members of Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right government portrayed the crime as the fruit of a local conflict unconnected to the devastation inflicted on the Amazon by his anti-environmental policies and dismantling of Indigenous protections But the killings exposed a far uglier reality: the rampant and highly lucrative illegal trade in fish and wildlife that plagues Brazil’s isolated and lawless tri-border with Colombia and Peru At the centre of that trade is Atalaia do Norte poverty-stricken river town where Pereira and Phillips began their final journey on 2 June last year as well as 16 groups with little or no contact with the outside world But in recent years Atalaia has also become a key part of a transnational poaching network with suspected links to the drug factions who move vast quantities of Peruvian cocaine through what police now consider Brazil’s second most important drug smuggling route congressional investigators concluded that “heavily armed and wealthy criminal associations” and “highly dangerous criminals” had set up camp in the region bankrolling groups of illegal fishermen who plunder the protected waters and forests of the Indigenous reserve where wildlife is more abundant “We are certain that illegal fishing in the Javari valley region isn’t about river-dwellers trying to make a living but actually much larger organizations, making sizable investments and outrageous profits,” the investigators wrote a Brazilian Indigenous expert and Dom Phillips a British journalist and longtime Guardian contributor, were killed on the Amazon’s Itaquaí River last June while returning from a reporting trip to the remote Javari Valley region and cast a spotlight on the growing threat to the Amazon posed by extractive industries the Guardian has joined 15 other international news organisations in a collaborative investigation into organised crime and resource extraction in the Brazilian Amazon The initiative has been coordinated by Forbidden Stories the Paris-based non-profit whose mission is to continue the work of reporters who are threatened The goal of the project is to honour and pursue the work of Bruno and Dom to foreground the importance of the Amazon and its people and  to suggest possible ways to save the Amazon was a former employee of the Indigenous agency Funai where he led efforts to protect the isolated and uncontacted tribes who live in the Brazilian Amazon After being sidelined from his post soon after the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro came to power Pereira went to work with the Javari Valley Indigenous association Univaja helping create Indigenous patrol teams to stop illegal poachers miners and loggers invading their protected lands was a longtime contributor to the Guardian who hadlived in Brazil for 15 years A former editor of the dance magazine Mixmag he developed a deep interest in environmental issues the beef industry and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest His reporting brought him into contact with Pereira and in 2018 the pair took part in a 17-day expedition deep into the Javari Valley In 2021 he took a year off to start writing a book His return to the Javari was to have been the last reporting trip for the project Sitting on Brazil’s border with Peru and Colombia the Javari ValleyIndigenous Reservation is a Portugal-sized swathe of rainforest andrivers which is home to about 6,000 Indigenous people from the Kanamari as well as 16 isolated groups.It is also a hotspot for poachers fishers and illegal loggers,prompting violent conflicts between the Indigenous inhabitants and theriverside communities which fiercely opposed the reservation’screation in 2001 Its strategic location makes it a key route for smuggling cocaine between Peru Pereira and Phillips travelled up the Itaquaí River from the town of Atalaia do Norte to report on efforts to stop illegal fishing members of the Indigenous patrol team with whom Pereira and Phillips were travelling were threatened by an illegal fisher the pair set out on the return leg before dawn hoping to safely pass a river community that was home to several known poachers.  and after a search by teams of local Indigenous activists Three fishers are being held in high-security prisons awaiting trial for the killings: brothers Amarildo and Oseney da Costa de Oliveira and a third man Federal police have alleged that a fourth man Thank you for your feedback.Bruno Pereira’s attempts to fight that illegal trade by organizing Indigenous patrol teams put him on a collision course with such criminals “It’s because of this that Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed,” a friend and former colleague the Paris-based non-profit coordinating the Bruno and Dom project Earlier this year police named an alleged local illegal fishing boss as the mastermind behind the crime The Javari valley’s most prized asset is the arapaima a giant air-breathing fish which Brazilians call the pirarucu and Peruvians know as paiche One of the world’s largest freshwater fish the arapaima can grow up to three metres (10ft) in length and often weighs about 90kg (200lb) It is considered a delicacy in major Latin American cities such as Lima Years of unregulated overfishing have pummeled arapaima stocks in the waters outside the Javari’s protected Indigenous lands – which outsiders are forbidden from entering without permission and where commercial fishing is banned As a result poachers have increasingly taken to invading the territory to extract huge boat-fulls of the fish as well as a river turtle called the tracajá A boat filled with pirarucu which was seized and picked up by police The prized fish can grow up to 10ft in length Photograph: Cícero Pedrosa Neto/Amazônia Real“They use small boats and travel in small groups,” said Orlando Possuelo an Indigenous expert who is continuing Pereira’s work with the patrol groups battling to thwart such invaders Many of them were born in there [before the territory was officially created in 2001] so it’s not easy to find them.” After being smuggled out of the Indigenous territory in wooden barges packed with ice the fish are sold in a constellation of border towns including Leticia in Colombia an edgy river town near Atalaia named after one of the founders of the Brazilian republic A year-long investigation by Forbidden Stories found that the illegal trade continues to flourish in the tri-border region between Brazil despite government pledges to stamp out environmental crime following last year’s killings None of the three countries there have rigid controls over the origin of the arapaima being sold Brazil has yet to reopen the offices of its environmental agency Peru’s regional production department has no fishing inspectors in Santa Rosa de Yavarí the Peruvian town across the river from Tabatinga And Colombian authorities do not control the quantity of fish being caught by the 40 companies registered to operate in Leticia You’re looking to fucking die,” one man warned a reporter from Peru’s OjoPúblico one of 16 media outlets involved in the Bruno and Dom project when he visited a riverside fishing warehouse in the Colombian border town looking for illegal fish Activists say the almost complete lack of controls means the illegal fishing trade continues to thrive despite the international scandal caused by the killings of Pereira and Phillips “I don’t think anything has changed,” said Possuelo remembering how Indigenous activists received reports of illegal poachers operating within the Javari territory even in the days after the two men vanished on 5 June last year Damasceno said he was determined to continue with his crusade to bring sustainable fishing to some of the most isolated and dangerous corners of the Brazilian Amazon Pirarucu fish on sale in a market in Leticia Photograph: Gary Calton/The GuardianNow 65 the fishing engineer plans to retire after what will be his last – and perhaps most difficult – assignment: implementing such projects in São Rafael the three fishing communities from which the alleged killers of Pereira and Phillips came Doing so involves helping those communities set up three different kinds of lakes that will help local pirarucu stocks recover and stop fishermen invading Indigenous lands: “permanent protection lakes” where fishing is forbidden “maintenance lakes” which local families can fish to feed themselves and “management lakes” where a quota of up to 30% of adult fish can be legally extracted after their numbers have reached certain levels The fishing engineer argued sustainable fishing was the only way to avoid further violence along the Itaquaí River and help deprived local families resist the temptation of supplying fish for organized crime he remembered how the fisherman who once threatened to harpoon him had since embraced sustainable fishing and become a close friend “I always say that sustainable fishing is the way out of this kind of conflict rights and acceptance,” insisted Damasceno who hopes to retire to write a book about the pirarucu once his mission is complete He plans to call it: “The union of people and sustainability in the Amazon.” On a recent trip to the fishing villages near where Pereira and Phillips were killed Damasceno urged locals to embrace the idea of legal Additional reporting by Ana Ionova (The Guardian) Rodrigo Pedroso (OjoPúblico) and Cécile Andrzejewski and Mariana Abreu (Forbidden Stories) This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media InfoAmazonia Brazil: Conflict of uncontacted indigenous group with Matis Matís say are living in uncertainty after the deaths of two indigenous in Korubo attack at the end of 2014 and that Funai is not knowing mediate the case Indígenas Matís protestan en la calles de Atalaia do Norte en actividades no relacionadas con la ocupación (Foto: Divulgación Associación Indígena Matís) Ocupación de indígenas Matís en la sede de Funai (Foto: Divulgacción Associación Indígena Matís) Indígneas Matís frente a la sede de Funai en Atalaia do Norte Indígenas Korubo hicieron contacto en septiembre de 2015 (Foto: CGIIRC/Funai) Servidores de salud atienden a los Korubo (Foto: CGIIRC/Funai) Contacto de Korubo en septiembre de 2015 (Foto: CGIIRC/Funai) Fotos de contacto de Korubo en 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To find out more, please read our Cookies policy A 52-year-old man was reported missing yesterday in the Atalaia area of ​​Caniço The information was confirmed to JM by Commander Guerreiro Cardoso who further advanced that the searches are taking place at this time by sea and land one from the Maritime Police and the other from the Instituto de Socorro a Castaways the Maritime Police and the PSP have also been collaborating ” adding that the alert was given last night who subsequently informed the Maritime Police of the situation From Jornal Madeira Indigenous leaders who say Brazil’s new president is trying to force them from their lands are braced for a new era of ruin Amazon tribes sayThis article is more than 5 years oldIndigenous leaders who say Brazil’s new president is trying to force them from their lands are braced for a new era of ruin Read more“Bolsonaro’s no good,” he said leaving behind a trail of death and environmental destruction “Not since the dictatorship have we lived through such a tough moment,” said Jaime Siqueira, the head of the Indigenous Work Centre (CTI) a Brazilian NGO supporting indigenous communities fighting to defend their lands Ewerton Marubo, a leader from the Javari Valley indigenous territory – an almost Portugal-sized hinterland sheltering Brazil’s largest concentration of uncontacted tribes – said its 6,000 inhabitants were bracing for a new era of ruin [Bolsonaro] is proving himself to be the number-one enemy of the indigenous,” he said Ewerton was one of two dozen regional leaders gathered in Atalaia do Norte – the riverside portal to the Javari reserve – to discuss ways to defend it from the anticipated onslaught Two days later caciques (chieftains) from the eight contacted tribes living in the region were due to hold an emergency summit at a village further west on the border with Peru But as Bolsonaro ratchets up his anti-indigenous rhetoric and continues to dismantle Funai – the already chronically underfunded agency supposed to protect Brazil’s 300-odd tribes – Javari leaders fear a dramatic deterioration “The current government’s dream is to exterminate the indigenous people so they can take our land,” claimed Kevin Mayoruna a leader from Javari’s Matsés tribe who recently staged a protest in his village on the Jaquirana River alleged that by deliberately failing to stop invaders entering the Javari reserve and simultaneously depriving indigenous communities of healthcare and education Bolsonaro’s administration was trying to force them from lands that could then be commercially developed All he thinks about is deforestation,” Mayoruna complained warning of the implications for the global climate if Javari’s forests were lost “The forest isn’t just for us indigenous,” he said Thousands of wildcat miners – apparently emboldened by Bolsonaro’s repeated proclamations that indigenous territories were too big – have reportedly been pouring on to Yanomami lands near Brazil’s border with Venezuela in search of gold Further south in Rondônia state, members of the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe have been battling since January to keep armed land-grabbers off their 1.9m hectare reserve But the stakes are particularly high in the Javari Valley a balloon-shaped sweep of rainforests and rivers thought to house 16 “lost tribes” living in voluntary isolation For such groups – who can lack immunity to simple illnesses such as influenza – contact with outsiders can be fatal an Atalaia-based activist for the Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi) said Javari’s tribes were facing an intensifying assault from loggers as well as oil companies over the border in Peru Crippling budget cuts to Funai meant the agency had just 18 employees to stop intruders entering the 8.5m hectare enclave “It is an area the size of a country that is almost completely unprotected,” Larraín said Siqueira claimed Bolsonaro’s “aggressive and condescending” rhetoric towards Brazil’s indigenous peoples had already given their “historic enemies” the green light to accelerate their illegal advance into territories such as the Javari “It’s not just deforestation that has gone up in the Amazon [under Bolsonaro] During a meeting with foreign journalists last week Bolsonaro defended his desire to develop indigenous reserves warned the international community against meddling in the Amazon and painted himself as a champion of indigenous people who no longer wanted to live “like prehistoric men with no access to technology But as they gathered at the headquarters of their indigenous association Javari activists and elders said they were determined to resist what they called a Bolsonaro-backed assault on their ancestral homes As if we didn’t know how to think,” said Ewerton Marubo who hoped foreign funding might help tribes adopt surveillance techniques to safeguard their land “But we are much more intelligent than he is.” Matis elders gather in the Amazon town of Atalaia do Norte. Photograph: Tom PhillipsLucia Kanamari, one of the Javari’s few female leaders, said: “If the government doesn’t support us, we must find a way of protecting ourselves. He [Bolsonaro] has come to leave us in the darkness, but we won’t allow it.” Ewerton said he felt a particular duty to defend the isolados, the tribes living in seclusion deep in the reserve, who could not speak for themselves. “Just imagine if all this is destroyed, if the government opens this area up. In two years it will all be gone,” he predicted. “The wood will be gone. The fish will be gone. The rivers will all be polluted. All they want is to destroy.” As the sun rose over Atalaia do Norte and indigenous emissaries prepared to cast off for their rainforest conclave, the leaders convened for a final assembly about protecting their homes. Ivan Chunu Matis, a Matis elder wearing a Macaw feather headdress and ear and nose rings fashioned from snail shells, grew agitated as he considered the threat posed by the man he calls “Bolsonario”. “He’s a bad man. It’s as if he understands nothing,” he remonstrated. “He doesn’t want to help the poor or the suffering. He just wants to help the rich so he can get the resources they desire.” Read moreAs she readied herself for the trip Lucia Kanamari said Javari’s people were now fighting for their lives “He’s not a president who has come to fix things He’s a president who has come to destroy,” she said The Guardian travelled to the Amazon with support from the Red Eclesial PanAmazónica and Cidse an international alliance of development agencies that includes the UK’s Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (Cafod) and the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (Sciaf) with the assistance of the Madeiran Volunteer Firefighters who had suffered a fall from a cliff in the Atalaia area without specifying the context of the fall the Santa Cruz firefighters came across a man who had fallen from a height of approximately 8 to 9 meters they requested the assistance of a rescue team The commander of the Firefighters Company of Santa Cruz and the fall was the result of an attempt to photograph on the edge of the abyss The man only had slight abrasions on his lower limbs so he refused to be transported to a health unit A total of 14 elements were involved in the rescue operation PSP and Municipal Civil Protection of Santa Cruz From Diário Notícias Thanks to Ferry van H de B who sent me these photos he took There’s a reason why the fence is there risk takers) flock to the island and the real money spenders will think twice off coming Stupid just like the idiots that go to farol lighthouse for the sunset . so many stand and sit on the edge of the cliff . i am sure there will be a mass accident happen one of these days … and that folks is quite a drop in the ocean … Well with the shortage of water decide have a shower in the sea .Best in the sea than in the levada Well done it a good example to show to some tourists that instead washing and cool of their feet in the levadas this can be the alternative route Brazil's federal police concluded their investigation into the double homicide of indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips near the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land in Atalaia do Norte The investigation confirmed that the murders were prompted by Pereira’s monitoring activities in the region He was committed to environmental preservation and the defense of Indigenous rights INVESTIGATION — During the two-year investigation the federal police indicted nine individuals The final report identifies the mastermind behind the double homicide funded the criminal organization’s activities and coordinated efforts to hide the victims’ bodies The others indicted were involved in carrying out the murders and concealing the remains The investigation also unveiled organized criminal activity behind predatory fishing and hunting in the Atalaia do Norte region The criminal group caused social and environmental impacts and threatened environment protection workers and Indigenous populations was identified in the Federal Police’s final report and is currently imprisoned COMMITMENT — The Federal Police continues to monitor the threats posed to the population of the Vale do Javari region and there are ongoing investigations regarding threats made to local Indigenous persons THE CASE — Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were shot to death on June 5 They had met a few days earlier in Atalaia do Norte at the Brazilian border with Peru and Colombia The experienced Indigenist and the British journalist intended to travel across the region until close to the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land the second-largest area of the Union designated for exclusive Indigenous use and is home to the largest concentration of uncontacted peoples in the world Phillips planned to interview Indigenous and riverside community leaders to write a nonfiction narrative provisionally titled How To Save the Amazon Pereira had initiated a license from the National Indigenous Peoples Foundation (Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas / FUNAI) in February 2020 he worked as a consultant for the Vale do Javari Indigenous Peoples’ Union (União dos Povos Indígenas do Vale do Javari /UNIVAJA) and had meetings scheduled with community leaders of the area around the Indigenous Land They were both last seen on the morning of June 5 when police officers had already detained at least five suspects for engaging in their disappearance Pereira's ally identified the supposed links between illegal activities and the city government Among the suspects nominated in Pereira's list are the officials Janio Souza and Laurimar Alves known as "Caboclo." Both were appointed to positions of trust by mayor Denis Paiva Caboclo is married to one of the sisters of Amarildo da Costa Oliveira arrested for allegedly participating in the murders of Pereira and Phillips on June 5 Exactly one month after the murders of the Brazilian Indigenous expert and the British journalist Abraji reveals details of the investigation conducted by Bruno Pereira weeks before his death Abraji's work is based on the accounts of two of its main associates they appoint the suspicious relationships between drug trafficking and illegal fishing with politics supporting the invasion of the Indigenous land According to the interviewees – whose identities will be kept secret for security reasons – it is an extensive network with branches in the city hall decided to continue the investigation initiated by Bruno Pereira – Abraji identifies both here as Pereira's associates Pereira planned to deliver copies of the report with the suspects' names and positions in the municipal administration to the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office The British journalist was writing a book on Vale do Javari Indigenous Land Pereira realized that the group involved in the invasions for poaching and illegal fishing in the Indigenous land had changed its profile They were no longer riparian fishers in small boats "Pelado had a boat with a powerful engine and capacity to carry up to 2 tons Before moving to the city of Benjamin Constant like most of the riparians," said the source Pelado's financial rise matches the period in which he lived in Benjamin Constant Pelado started organizing illegal expeditions to invade the Indigenous land with funding from Peruvian drug dealer Rubens Villar Coelho as he is known in the region – use the cities Benjamin Constant a peninsula on the Peruvian side of the river Pelado played a leading role in the coastal villages of Sao Gabriel and Sao Rafael Several members of his family live in both villages about 30 kilometers from the entrance of the Indigenous land The strategic position turns the locality into a support point for clandestine expeditions pirarucu fish and tracajá turtles are taken to Benjamin Constant and resold in Leticia Recognized as a delicacy in the Amazon region tracajá's meat is highly valued and its consumption represents high status Even with the legal ban on the capture and sale of these turtles it is common to find these animals being grilled on the wood on barbecue grilles in front of the houses in Atalaia do Norte "We know when you have tracajás and eggs being sold in the city There are some WhatsApp groups with city hall officials as members Pereira knew it and asked me for help in identifying those involved he asked me to provide a list of the names and positions of Caboclo Caboclo is the brother-in-law of Pelado and has a position in the Health Department Janio de Souza works in the Interior Department He moved to Sao Rafael and always announced merchandise in the groups," said one of the associates The interviewee also cited a third name raised by Pereira in the mentioned call: "Clovis is a health agent He is from an inland region and had an increase in assets that no one can explain Pereira knew that Clovis had two masonry houses rented for the town hall Children play in a house in Atalaia do Norte.  The associate was trying to confirm the suspect's identity when he learned that Pereira and Phillips had gone missing. The news of their disappearance arrived in Atalaia do Norte on Sunday morning The two associates knew that their unknown fate foreshadowed the worst scenario but I never thought they could perpretrate such a vicious crime They were quartered and burned," he said For the second associate interviewed by Abraji Pereira's death was commissioned by a powerful group of people of the region "Pereira did his work with excellence and courage This had always been the case since he began coordinating Funai in the region Pereira mapped the garimpo (illegal mining) dredgers on the river with the locations of each one by geo-referencing He wrote a report and handed it to the authorities a major operation took place with the military and the Federal Police A boat like that is sold for no less than R$ 500,000 (US$ 92,000) It can reach 1 million if you add logistics Pereira was dismissed from the coordination of Funai." The second associate pointed out that the explosion of the dredgers was a blow to illegal mining activity "But that had not been the first investigation by Pereira from accounts of the original peoples living in the Javari Valley Pereira had mapped out traders from Atalaia do Norte who had taken the Bolsa Familia and retirement cards" of Indigenous residents Bolsa Familia is a social welfare program that grants money to impoverished people countrywide Grantees use a card to collect their allowance "They spent months in their small villages Many found that they had unpayable debts hired on their names Traders also made loans on behalf of these grantees." and Bruno Pereira went on to investigate the traders to report the case to the authorities "The Federal Police conducted an operation and found hundreds of cards with traders current mayor of Atalaia do Norte) had more than 100 cards We know that no one has been arrested nor sentenced."   families gather at the entrances of the houses The team from the Tim Lopes Program of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) tried to listen to mayor Denis Paiva (from Uniao Brasil party) while in the city covering the work of the Federal Police the trip aimed to gather resources for Atalaia do Norte the Folk Festival of Parintins took place - rumors have it that the mayor traveled to the festival Abraji also sent messages to the office's institutional e-mail but did not get answers the first associate heard by the team reported an episode of violence involving Amarildo de Oliveira and an Indigenous person during an invasion of the Javari Valley Indigenous Land "We know they shot at an Indigenous person who approached an illegal expedition of poachers and fishers on the Indigenous Land The shooter had a 16-caliber shotgun and would have been Pelado." The gun is of the same type used to kill Pereira and Phillips The episode described by him happened in Feb 2019. Soon after, Benjamin Constant's Patrol Station officers found 200 cartridges of a 16-caliber shotgun in Pelado's house. Agência Pública revealed the discovery of ammunition on June 29, 2022. The story shows that Seven months after the discovery of the 200 ammunition in the house maintained by Pelado in Benjamin Constant a former contractor of Funai called Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was killed with two shots in the back He was riding a bike through Amizade Avenue which connects the Brazilian city of Tabatinga to Letícia two weeks after Santos took part in the seizure of a vessel loaded with pirarucu fish The material seized came from the Javari Valley Indigenous Land Maxciel dos Santos no longer worked for Funai "Maxciel [Santos] and Bruno [Pereira] were removed from their functions because their work was damaging the activities of the invaders I do not doubt that many powerful people are involved and senators [in it]," said Pereira's second associate heard by Abraji The interviewee adds that mayor Denis Paiva is the son of a logger was a councilor and mayor of Atalaia do Norte for two terms "He has been exploring for decades the extraction of hardwood in the Javari Valley Galate and the mayor's father – who is deceased – took more than 2,000 logs of hardwood per month Now the trees are sent to sawmills in Peru where the wood is prepared and sent abroad." The two associates believe that the Galate political group – which became known in the region for defending an old policy known as "a good Indian is a dead Indian" – will keep trying to invade the Javari Valley Indigenous Land 90% of the population of Atalaia do Norte do not like Indigenous people: "It is common to hear people here saying that they [Indigenous people] have a lot of land for such a small amount of people And [they ask] what they come to do in the city since people from the city cannot enter their land," he said the disassembly of Funai's supervisory structure has encouraged the activities of the invaders The National Security Force (FNS) sent troops to operate around the Indigenous land but did not approach poachers and illegal fishers They were there for nothing." Currently the FNS does not maintain troops on the triple border between Brazil The image of the building serving as a shelter for the men of the National Force is proof of public authorities' abandonment of the region the site became a meeting point for crack addicts and users of other drugs The abandoned building of the National Security Force the Matis ethnic group was reduced to less than half in the 1970s a disastrous contact policy carried out by the military government caused the death of dozens of Matis numbering no more than 86 individuals in 1983 the ethnic group has recovered its population over the last few decades The search for education took more than half of the Matis to the city of Atalaia do Norte (AM) and also brought one of them to Unicamp where he entered through the Indigenous Entrance Exam Binin Ngapeth Matis seeks to increase his knowledge and contribute to his ethnicity.  The student took the Indigenous Entrance Exam in 2020 and entered the Geography course “I decided to continue my studies to improve my knowledge in my personal and professional life to take to my community and work with my people within the village” My life was always good until I was 12 years old Being close to family was safe.” The adversities began when she went to the city of Atalaia do Norte (AM) in order to continue her training I had a lot of difficulties speaking Portuguese There was a lack of food and sometimes my parents had to send me flour and salted meat I went hungry while I was studying in the city.” Binin passed an internship selection at the National Indian Foundation (Funai) and combined his studies with work he served as a teacher at the municipal school in Tawaya village When he found out about the indigenous entrance exam at Unicamp if I manage to finish my undergraduate degree I will try to do a postgraduate degree or another course I also dream of studying Social Services and Literature I have many years to decide what I want to do.” Binin Matis' reality is similar to that of dozens of young people who go to Atalaia do Norte in search of studies education lasts until the sixth year of elementary school The Amazonian city is located in the extreme west of Brazil and has seen a significant increase in the indigenous population in recent years Most of them routinely travel between cities and villages.  Due to the fragility of public policies for indigenous people many families arrive in the municipality without having a place to live Dozens of people end up living on the pier sleeping in the small boats they arrive at.  a relative of Binin and one of the 300 ethnic people who live in the city He says that the ethnic group gradually organized itself in the construction of houses which today house the city's Mati families solidarity between families allows them to be welcomed into their relatives' homes Before it was like this: it was on the riverbank those who come from the village stay at home So the Matis people are nowadays in the municipality of Atalaia do Norte” who has part of his family in the city and part in the village he spends a period of time in each location he has not been to indigenous land as much as he would like.  Before we could buy things and go back to the village but my preference is to go back to the village It's very difficult for me: family is in the village it is important to be in the city to give his children an education but it is in the village where he wanted to be about the reality of white people and ours That’s my intention: to stay there.”  health agent and now works at the Secretariat of Indigenous Care in Atalaia do Norte there is a lack of professionals to support the population's basic demands there is an understanding that the Matis need to seek training in order to work in the villages to solve the problems.  In education we urgently need more permanent teachers from the State This is so that relatives don’t have to go down to the city because they have to have money to stay here,” she notes Presence in the city enhances political action Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) anthropologist Rodrigo Reis coordinated a demographic census in 2018 on the indigenous presence in Atalaia do Norte carried out together with indigenous organizations the State University of Amazonas and SEMAI it was confirmed that school education is the main factor in indigenous mobility and one of the main demands of ethnic mobilizations should not be seen as a removal from the villages a vision present in anti-indigenous speeches “We should not think that being in the city is a denial of Indigenous Land There is a continuous relationship between cities and villages that are part of different factors such as education and the possibility of employment the presence in the city enhances the work of indigenous leaders with bodies of power” Strengthening the political organization of indigenous people in cities also brings benefits to relatives who remain in the villages “There are networks related to health and food that maintain close ties between those who remain living in the villages and those in the cities being in the city should not be thought of as leaving the village This is an easy speech that is contrary to the indigenous presence anywhere,” he says The census coordinated by the professor highlights several aspects of the sociodemographic profile of indigenous people in Atalaia do Norte, such as housing conditions and access to goods and services and food security. Access the study here.  Delegation learned about research carried out at Unicamp and expressed interest in international cooperation The show class with chef and gastrologist Tibério Gil on the role of nutrition and gastronomy in contemporary women's health opened the program that runs until Friday (8) the occupation of command positions is still unequal between men and women with six places offered each year in the first two periods; the offer increases to nine beneficiaries in the following two years The publications are divided in a didactic manner into the themes General Women's Health Obstetric Health and Adolescent Women's Health a political commitment in favor of the solution is necessary and the Brazil can play an extremely important role in global environmental solutions  the sociologist was president of the National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences in the 2003-2004 biennium   Webmail Wi-Fi networks User Services Charter Information Security Policy  He is one of the three nominees for the LUS Teaching Prize What is it about this approach that appeals to students there's a teaching prize; that's great!'' But then I felt really proud and very happy to know that students appreciate my lectures Over the past few months we have had to  move at very short notice to online teaching and it's hard to gauge how well it's going this nomination comes as quite a relief to me because it seems that students learn a lot from the lectures and they like my teaching.' ‘I teach Portuguese Language and Culture in the Bachelor's programme in International Studies The students have to choose a geographic area to specialise in and a language relevant to that area My students specialise in Latin America or Africa The students who choose Europe as their specialist area are more likely to choose French There seems to be more glamour attached to French!'  but that meant we had a more equal playing field.'  ‘I think it's because I respect my students In the midst of a pandemic we had to reshape a whole series of lectures and I decided straight off to level with my students I wrote them an email explaining that even though I was their teacher for this subject I had no idea how the rest of the semester would turn out There were actually times when students knew more than me but at the same time it meant we had a more equal playing field I also encouraged students to talk about how they were feeling because I'm not a mind reader You could say the lectures were democratised.'   it does take some getting used to because you're surrendering part of your authority don't get me wrong: I certainly don't see myself as some kind of hippie lecturer There's still a clear power differential between teacher and students so I'm the person with the most knowledge. And then there's the fact that they're the ones paying and I'm the one being paid. But it's quite liberating not to have to keep up the façade of the omniscient teacher It's taught me to rely on confidence rather than mistrust We're making the best of it together.'  ‘I soon decided that I wasn't going to set any old-style exams It was already a very stressful time for many students and I didn't want to burden them any further with too much unnecessary work We worked with a portfolio for which they had to do short, weekly assignments I kept track of what they included in their portfolio and warned them beforehand if an assignment was likely to fail so they had the chance to submit an improved version And I made it very clear that a pass was good enough because in the midst of a pandemic it's an enormous achievement just to pass a subject.'  'I warned them beforehand if an assignment was likely to fail so they had the chance to submit an improved version.' ‘I noticed that we gradually started complimenting one another on holding up so well in the corona crisis. But the best compliment came when we played a language game where students had to write a note in Portuguese describing one of their fellow students I read the descriptions aloud and the students had to guess who was being described One of the notes said that the person had an odd sense of humour and an unusual taste in clothes. It took a few minutes before I realised that it was about me I found that a real sign of appreciation.'  Students have to learn to lose because that's the best way to learn A while ago I wrote a Portuguese soap that I want my students to perform as a way for them to learn to be free and passionate in how they use the language I'd like to be able to buy some props for the play: things like fake plants the nominees for 2020 are Arianna Pranger (Medicine) and Aris Politopoulos (Archaeology).  Ugly and going to spoil a beautiful local beach… Will there still be access to the public beach there Can't imagine why they feel another massive hotel is necessary at this location – there are already several Shame to spoil this location that is used so much by locals for free access to the sea etc There are so many massive hotels with under-occupancy on the island seems ridiculous to add to the tally I really hope this area of Canico is not going to be turned in to a concrete jungle similar to what has happened to the lido area around Madeira shopping Yes there will still be access to the beach but it will no longer be private like it is at the moment If you want more information feel free to email me It was a perfect example of Madeira's beautiful natural coast Now the road to the beach has been dug up to make space for this disgusting waste of money and it's a scar on the island's beautiful landscape The horrible design is bad enough but even if it was smaller and attractive it would still ruin the area help stop this hideous project from becoming a reality there is now a fence the east end so no access to the beach but you can still get to the beach from the west side.It will be a great shame to see this area become another huge unwanted hotel Brazilian police said on Monday they had found the boat in which British journalist Dom Phillips and his Brazilian expert guide Bruno Pereira were travelling before they were killed in the Amazon The boat was found Sunday night some 20 meters underwater and 30 meters from the right bank of the Itaquai River packed with six sandbags to keep it submerged went missing on June 5 in a remote part of the rainforest rife with illegal mining a suspect named Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira - known as "Pelado" - took police to a place where he said he had buried bodies near the city of Atalaia do Norte Human remains found at the spot were brought to Brasilia for examination and confirmed to belong to the two missing men A third suspect handed himself over to police and told investigators where to find the boat A boat engine and four drums belonging to Pereira were also found Five more people believed to have been involved in concealing the bodies have been identified police said the men's killers had acted on their own initiative and not as part of a criminal group - a conclusion rejected by the Univaja Indigenous association which had participated in the search.  Univaja claims that "a powerful criminal organisation.. planned the crime down to the smallest detail".  a longtime contributor to The Guardian and other leading international newspapers was working on a book on sustainable development in the Amazon with Pereira as his guide when they went missing an expert at Brazil's indigenous affairs agency FUNAI had received multiple threats from loggers and miners with their eye on isolated Indigenous resources Univaja said it had reported evidence to the authorities that "Pelado" was involved in illegal fishing and had been involved in gun attacks against a FUNAI base Experts say illegal fishing of endangered species in the Javari Valley takes place under the control of drug traffickers who use the sale of fish to launder drug money please register for free or log in to your account.