News Brazil Roraima: Yanomami Amazon reserve invaded by 20,000 miners; Bolsonaro fails to act
An estimated 20,000 illegal goldminers (garimpeiros) have entered Yanomami Park, one of Brazil’s biggest indigenous reserves, located in Roraima and Amazonas states, near the border with Venezuela. ...
News Brazil Roraima: 'Piecing together a puzzle': Undergraduate students travel to Brazil to document and preserve Indigenous languages
Indigenous Peoples speak more than 4,000 of the world’s estimated 6,700 languages, but language scholars predict at least half – likely more – of those languages will go extinct by the year 2100.
News Brazil Roraima: For Venezuelans fleeing chaos at home, Brazil offers temporary refuge — and uncertainty
Over the past five years, Venezuela’s combination of political instability, economic crisis and humanitarian disaster has driven record numbers of people out of the country to seek refuge elsewhere. The exodus is reshaping the entire continent of South America in unexpected ways. Amna Nawaz reports from the border between Venezuela and Brazil, where she met families making the desperate journey.
News Brazil Roraima: Brazil Just Missed an Incredible Green Opportunity
But try telling that to Brazil’s customs authority ... They include the 300,000 or so residents of Boa Vista, capital of the northernmost state of Roraima, which gets most of its energy from a ...
News Brazil Roraima: IOM Provides Support to Venezuelans in Brazil
The relocation strategy has been implemented to support migrants and asylum seekers arriving in the Northern Brazilian state of Roraima, offering better opportunities for integration. The strategy ...
News Brazil Roraima: More than 200,000 hectares of Amazon forest have been destroyed in just nine months
Meanwhile, the builders of a new power transmission line to the northern Brazilian state of Roraima have pledged to deploy 200 inspectors to reduce the environmental impact on an indigenous ...
News Brazil Roraima: Northern Brazil power line to avoid impact on tribe -document
The builders of a new power transmission line to the northern Brazilian state of Roraima have pledged to deploy 200 inspectors to reduce the environmental impact on an indigenous reservation where ...
