The ‘carbon pirates’ preying on Amazon’s Indigenous communities
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Selling credits should fund forest protection, but unscrupulous firms are making deals where land stewards lose out, say local leadersRevealed: ‘over 90% of rainforest offsets...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/21/amazon-indigenous-communities-carbon-offsetting-pirates-aoe

Brazil’s minister for Indigenous people vows to tackle Yanomami crisis
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New president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces he and Sônia Guajajara will make emergency visit to RoraimaBrazil’s first-ever minister for Indigenous peoples, Sônia G...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/20/brazil-indigenous-minister-sonia-guajajara-yanomami-crisis-illegal-miners