Sue Branford
Sue Branford is a free-lance journalist who has reported extensively on Brazil.
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News Thursday, March 14, 2019 Brazil to Open Indigenous Reserves to Mining Without Indigenous Consent New Minister of Mines and Energy Admiral Bento Albuquerque announced on 4 March that he plans to permit mining on indigenous lands in Brazil, including within the Amazon. He also said that he intends to allow mining right up to Brazil’s borders, abolishing the current ban along a 150-kilometer (93-... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 15, 2017 Temer Signs Law That Could See Millions of Acres Lost in the Amazon BRASILIA, Brazil: On 11 July, President Michel Temer signed into law important new legislation (MP 759) that paves the way for land thieves, who have illegally occupied and cleared vast areas of public land in the Amazon, to legalize their land holdings. The changes introduced by the legislation... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 18, 2017 Brazil on Verge of Legitimizing Amazon Land Theft on a Grand Scale The Amazon is the sort of wild place where you often go looking for one thing, but find another. So it was when Mongabay travelled in May on a mission to observe illegal logging operations within federal conservation units beside the BR-163, the Amazon highway linking the city of Santarém on the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 09, 2016 Behind the Rio Games Lies a Calamity on an Olympic Scale As the Olympics gets underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilians and foreigners alike will almost certainly have a great time. Despite the delays, the protests and the Zica virus (now apparently under control), there is a lot going for these Olympics: no other people in the world are as good as the... Read more |