Notícias Direto do ISA

The indigenous lands of the Kayapó (PA), Munduruku (PA) and Yanomami (RR) are already the most heavily impacted by illegal gold mining

According to the document, market investors are lacking information about the environmental licensing process and, in particular, the so-called Hydrographic Consensus

Technical note reinforces that climate goals would not be met by Brazil if the bill is approved by the Senate

In this meeting of Yanomami and Ye’kwana leaders, indigenous people denounce the government’s neglect of healthcare and indifference toward the wildcat mining invasion that is destroying indigenous land

Over 28,000 hectares were destroyed in the region in a single month; Apyterewa Indigenous Land ranks among the most deforested

Produced by the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) and the Xingu Seed Network, the film shows the connection between indigenous peoples, traditional communities, environmentalists and rural producers for a common goal: planting the forests of the future.

Organizations calls attention to the repeated dissemination of misleading information by Belo Sun Mining Corp (TSXV:BSX), including statements by CEO Peter Tagliamonte, downplaying socio-environmental, legal, and financial risks of the company’s “Volta Grande” project along the Xingu River.

The exhibition “Trees”, shown for the first time in Paris, contains over 200 works by close to 30 international artists, including Kalepi Sanöma, Joseca and Ehuana Yaira Yanomami

Over a thousand riverine dwellers were vaccinated during a health expedition which covered 2,200km of rivers in the state of Pará. Riverine people from the city of Altamira and nearby areas were also vaccinated.

Monitoring of the Xingu + network shows record deforestation in March and April 2021, reflecting the reduction of field operations near BR-163 highway; in a Conservation Unit that had its operation suspended, destruction grew 4,000%

An ISA study shows that the expected approval of a draft law granting amnesty to land grabbers has caused a surge in land invasions and deforestation in the world’s largest tropical rainforest

A new report by the Hutukara Yanomami Association shows aerial images of the unchecked expansion of illegal mining in Yanomami territory, with deep craters, camps adjoining Indigenous villages and even restaurants and bars for illegal miners

The Bill 510/2021 can be voted in the Senate plenary; known as “PL da Grilagem”, it intends to regularize thousands of hectares illegally deforested in the Amazon; at the top of the ranking of the most deforested Indigenous Lands, Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacajá (PA) face boom in invasions

In manifest, 60 villages of the Kayapó people repudiate a bill that intends to legalize mining in their territories; more than 5,700 illegal mining outbreaks were detected between 2018 and 2020 in Indigenous Lands and Conservation Units in the Xingu basin

As national coordinator of Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Sônia is the target of political persecution in another chapter of the escalating authoritarianism of the Bolsonaro administration. Read editorial from ISA

Monitoring of the Xingu + Network shows that, between 2018 and 2020, 513,500 hectares were deforested in the Xingu basin, equivalent to six times the city of New York (USA). One of the epicenters was a forest strip that maintains the humidity of the biome

Read ISA editorial on possible agreement between the governments of Brazil and the USA to preserve the world's largest rainforest

A new survey reveals the proliferation of new bases of invaders in closer proximity to the indigenous communities, including groups of isolated indigenous groups, and the opening of new routes into the territory

Decision can influence the implementation of the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consultation of indigenous and tribal peoples in Brazil about projects that impact their livelihoods before they are implemented

1,700 hectares were deforested between September and December; Court decision to carry out disintrusion of the area expires in May, but the government has not yet received a budget from Funai

2020 data on invasions and deforestation has alarmed indigenists, who are calling on the State to strengthen protection of indigenous lands

The Apyterewa, Cachoeira Seca, Ituna Itatá and Trincheira Bacajá ILs, in Pará State, lead the ranking of the most deforested in the Amazon; invasions increased after the cancellation of Ibama's operations in May

The movie released today (24) tells the Riverine Council’s trajectory. In spite of the obligation imposed by the licensing agency, the company Norte Energia has been refusing to comply with the determination even five years after the Operation License.

Yanomami and Ye'kwana organizations and a network of researchers launch an unprecedented report that details the progress of the pandemic in the indigenous territory, suggesting that one in three Yanomami may have already been infected by the new coronavirus

The #MinersOutCovidOut campaign launches the film "The Shaman’s Message” to warn the world that indigenous peoples alone cannot prevent the destruction of forests, the emergence of new pandemics and the climate collapse that threaten all of us

A new film from the campaign "Miners Out, Covid Out!" shows that mysterious diseases, evil spirits, scythes, guns and chainsaws are part and parcel of the mining invasion endured by the Yanomami people. Sign the petition and put an end to the terror.

Do your children spend hours on their mobile phones? Now, didactic content can aid the virtual teaching experience of children and adolescents during the pandemic

Despite the Army's presence in the region, illegal activities in Protected Areas exploded. With the cancellation of Ibama's operations, deforestation at the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacajá ILs increased 878% and 12,980% between May and August, respectively

Spokesperson for the #MinersOutCovidOut campaign denounces the Bolsonaro government’s neglect of indigenous peoples in the Amazon during the pandemic

Devastation grew by 827% in the Trincheira-Bacajá Indigenous Land (PA), according to an ISA survey. After six months of the pandemic, the government still has no plan to contain Covid-19 among indigenous people

Yanomami and Ye’kwana leaders launch a new film for the #MinersOutCovidOut campaign and respond to President Bolsonaro’s infamous phrase about the victims of the pandemic

A young Yanomami woman recounts the advance of Covid-19 in her village due to the presence of miners. It has already taken her sister. The Hutukara Yanomami Association formalized a complaint to the authorities demanding action.

Illegal invasions and the intensification of conflicts put at risk the integrity of indigenous people, besides potentializing the spread of the new Coronavirus in Trincheira Bacajá Indigenous Land (Pará State)

Beds, respirators and medicines are insufficient to serve all the population of the largest municipality in Brazil, which includes indigenous and riverine people. There have been two deaths already and 180 confirmed cases of Covid-19

Feliciano Lana, the man who translated Rio Negro's landscapes into art, in the density and strength of the senses they have for their indigenous people, has died

The material prepared in Portuguese and in four indigenous languages will support health professionals in raising awareness against the new coronavirus

Coronavirus – and Bolsonaro government – threaten post-2020 international conservation agenda. Read the second text in the series Biodiversity – The countdown. Nine months from the 15th Conference to the Convention on Biodiversity (COP 15)

Data presented on Tuesday at a hearing in Geneva indicate that deforestation and invasions have skyrocketed in the last year in Amazon territories inhabited by these groups, the most vulnerable to disease and forest loss.

Bolsonaro government's anti-environmentalism jeopardizes international convention with hard mission to stop the destruction of species and ecosystems. Read more about it

Editorial: under the pretext of regulating the Constitution, Bolsonaro sent a bill to Congress that seeks to enable the indiscriminate exploration of natural resources on Indigenous Lands

The appointment of a missionary to coordinate Funai’s area for isolated indigenous peoples is one of the gravest developments in Bolsonaro’s ethnocidal policy.

ISA’s special series analyzes “ Bolsonaro effect” on the increasing destruction of the largest rainforest on the planet. The second report explains the 61% increase in deforestation in Xingu’s Indigenous Lands.

Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) launches a publication to commemorate 25 years of work in the defense of Brazil's cultural and biological diversity and of search for a new country model

In different parts of Brazil, indigenous people hired by PrevFogo work to prevent and fight forest fires

Monitoring bulletins published by ISA indicate over 1,240 km of illegal branch roads and 4,863 deforestation alerts in one year in the territory where forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara was brutally murdered

In two months, 14,7 thousand forest hectares were destroyed in Indigenous Lands and Conservation Units in the Xingu Corridor, 172% more than the same period last year

A newly released ISA book presents an overview of the main threats to indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation, who are at risk of extermination if forest clearing continues.

Brazil's president dismantled and demoralized environmental supervision and gave numerous statements of encouragement to the predatory occupation of the Amazon, says note signed by more than 100 civil society organizations

Land grabbing, livestock, mining and law changes caused the deforestation of 39 thousand hectares in the Xingu river basin between May and June

Launched on Tuesday (23/7), the book presents an overview of the main threats to indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Brazilian Amazonia.

Between March and April, approximately 11.000 hectares were deforested without authorization in the Mato Grosso portion of the Xingu basin. Farming, slowness in the environmental regulation and the feeling of impunity are the main causes

ISA is celebrating its 25 year anniversary with the launch of the #PeoplesOfTheForest campaign to boost support for the indigenous, Quilombola, riparian and extractivist communities in Brazil who are resisting attacks on their rights and the destruction of their lands.

In this article, the executive secretary of ISA, André Villas-Bôas, evaluates and critiques the measures taken by the Bolsonaro administration up until now regarding the socioenvironmental agenda. Article originally published in the digital version of Folha de S.Paulo, on 10/4/2019.

On the day the indigenous people are out on the streets for their 1st official protest against the new administration, ISA publishes its last report on the ministerial reform. The rural caucus has opened the path for keeping its promise in putting an end to [indigenous] land demarcations

The rural caucus is now in charge of land titling. This second report on ministerial restructuring prepared by ISA shows where the policies for quilombolas have gone

A close look at the ministerial restructuring by the ISA team reveals a smothering of influence and autonomy of the environmental agenda in Brazil. See how the main areas and policies will be

In a unanimous decision, the Regional Federal Court of the 1st Region suspended the Installation License for the Canadian mining company operations in Volta Grande do Xingu (PA). The appellate judges ordered a prior consultation be carried out, respecting the consultation protocol presented by the indigenous peoples