diritti indigeni

Last week, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, together with the Minister for Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara and the Minister of Justice and Public Security Ricardo Lewandowski, signed the decrees approving two new indigenous lands in the territories of Bahia and Mato Grosso.The two new territories, in which members of the Pataxó and Karajá indigenous groups will live, will extend over approximately 35 thousand hectares.Thus, a total of 10 indigenous lands were approved in about a year and a half, thanks to the work of the two ministries involved and FUNAI (National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples)."There protection of ancestral peoples it is closely linked to the sustainability not only of our country, but of the entire planet" declared Minister Lewandowski during the meeting with the CNPI (National Council for Indigenous Policies), where the decrees were signed.«Supporting the rights of indigenous peoples means supporting the righ...

The Osage tribe of Oklahoma got one historic victory for indigenous rights against the Italian energy giant Enel, accused of exploiting their land without permission in the drive towards the energy transition.After a long legal battle, the court ruled that Enel will almost have to pay $260 million to remove 84 wind turbines from the lands of the Osage Nation.This is one of the first rulings in the United States to require decommissioning of a wind project in operation;a subsequent trial will establish how much the company will have to pay in compensation. «Enel, it will cost you a fortune not to have asked us for a permit.That was all you had to do,” he told the Financial times the president of the Osage Minerals Council, Everett Waller, whose tribe had been massacred in 1900.Martin Scorsese's film also takes up their story, Killers of the Flower Moon, nominated for an Oscar.The film tells how the Osage people initially became rich with the discovery of oil on their land, b...

Achieving the goal of restoring 12 million hectares of native Brazilian vegetation by 2030, as established by the Paris climate agreement, will not be an easy task, especially in the absence of a solid government program that goes in this direction .However it is thanks to the precious work of seed collectors, who discovered that planting them instead of saplings makes the reforestation process more efficient and solid, that the hope of reaching the goal is still alive. A technique that the natives have proven to be the most suitable for help young trees survive drought and make the most of the space available:sowing allows you to plant approximately ten times more trees per hectare compared to the use of seedlings, halving the costs.The efforts of seed collectors are focusing above all on Cerrado area, a territory of savannahs and forests that covers more than 20% of Brazil and a small part of Paraguay and Bolivia and which houses species of flora and fauna that cannot be found elsewh...