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The Brazilian government has launched its biggest ever operation to remove thousands of cows owned by illegal land grabbers from indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest.

Three helicopters, a dozen vehicles and a heavily armed corps of police and environment rangers are carrying out the cattle drive, which criminal gangs attempted to block by setting fires on the route, destroying bridges and intimidating drivers.

Operation Eraha Tapiro (“Ox Removal” in the language of the Assurini Indigenous people) aims to restore state control over the Ituna-Itatá Indigenous Territory, which suffered some of the worst deforestation and invasions in the Amazon during the previous presidency of the nationalist Jair Bolsonaro.

Since a change of power at the start of this year, the leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has promised to curb environmental crime, halt the expansion of the agricultural frontier and aim for zero deforestation by 2030. The environment minister, Marina Silva, has launched a series of operations to drive illegal miners and ranchers out of indigenous territory and other public lands that are under the protection of the state.

The operation commander, Givanildo Lima, who is an agent for the government’s main environmental protection agency, Ibama, said this was a politically symbolic operation on the frontline of environmental crime in the Amazonian state of Pará.

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[–] deus 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It feels almost surreal to have an environment minister that actually cares about the environment... though truth be told, the previous government lowered the bar so much that doing absolutely nothing would still have been a clear improvement.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

If doing nothing is already an improvement, this must be a whole other level. It's forreal super cool to hear this, but there I'm wondering how sustainable this type of action is with opposing right wing politicians. I mean, it feels kind a no brainer that this is the right thing to do, but the previous administration apparently got away with some other views?

Hope this works out well!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank God Lula is the President there again. The whole world needs to be sending the Amazon bordering countries money to save carbon holders like that.

[–] DarthBueller 1 points 9 months ago

They are paid money. Bolsonaro was a fuck and he was rabidly supported by the Brazilian evangelicals, a movement started by American missionaries that now is a sizeable minority that is 100% committed to emulating American evangelicals including supporting assholes like Bolsonaro, fucking with the heathen indigenous, and pretending that mowing down the rainforest is a fucking moral imperative. And they’re only growing in political strength.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Three helicopters, a dozen vehicles and a heavily armed corps of police and environment rangers are carrying out the cattle drive, which criminal gangs attempted to block by setting fires on the route, destroying bridges and intimidating drivers.

Since a change of power at the start of this year, the leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has promised to curb environmental crime, halt the expansion of the agricultural frontier and aim for zero deforestation by 2030.

The environment minister, Marina Silva, has launched a series of operations to drive illegal miners and ranchers out of indigenous territory and other public lands that are under the protection of the state.

A government study in 2011 took a step to formally demarcate the Ituna-Itatá Indigenous Territory, an area of 142,000 hectares, approximately the size of Greater London, that was the home of an isolated community, the Igarapé Ipiaçava.

As soon as the Ibama operation started last week, word rapidly spread on grileiro WhatsApp groups in the village of Vila Mocotó, part of Coronel José Porfírio municipality.

As the operation’s convoy of cars and trucks drove past, residents of Vila Mocotó gathered in doorways to stare at the federal agents who threatened their livelihoods.


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[–] DarthBueller 1 points 9 months ago

One of many reasons that nobody should be eating beef. Don’t eat beef. At least in the US, beef is excepted from country of origin laws. As an American, 99% of the time, you have no way of knowing if you’re eating the rainforest.