The End of the Amazon Rainforest in our Lifetime?
With Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro now Covid-19 positive, we look at how his policies and mismanagement of the Amazon Rainforest during the pandemic could soon see the last of the Indigenous populations in the region. He has allowed illegal logging and mining to increase exponentially resulting in severe deforestation that could see the rainforest all but disappear in the next 50-100 years.
With major trade deals on the table with the EU, we explore what people and other governments can do to prevent the destruction of Earth's greatest, and most vital, rainforest.
This weeks guest are;
Karla Mendes: An award-winning Brazilian journalist working as a Rio de Janeiro-based Contributor Editor for Mongabay. She has been working as a correspondent for international outlets since 2015 and in the last two years she specialised in covering environmental, land and property rights issues.
Rebecca Loudon: An environmental social activist based in the UK.
Links to Indigenous Groups and Associations in need of support:
https://www.facebook.com/apiboficial/
https://www.facebook.com/VozDosPovos
Links to research articles for this episode:
Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?
Overlap of fire, COVID-19 peaks: A ‘catastrophe’ for Brazil’s Amazon
Brazil minister advises using COVID-19 to distract from Amazon deregulation
Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub
In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands
Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired
As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes
Brazilian government taken to court for assault on environment, climate
‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows
Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous
NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN
Music by The Collier
Produced by Sucker Punch Productions and S2S Media.