Millions of acres of Indigenous territory across Brazil are burning, releasing enormous amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and threatening the lands and lives of over a million Indigenous people in the region.
In response, Land is Life is working with Amazon Frontlines on an urgent campaign to encourage our networks to send support directly to our grassroots Indigenous partner the Indigenous Confederation of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) who are organizing a frontlines response to the fires to protect their lands and territories from further destruction. All funds raised will directly support COIAB’s Indigenous-led “fire brigades” currently fighting the fires and to their organizational capacity in order to protect the Amazon long into the future.
The fires now raging across the Amazon are not natural. They are part of a political crisis in which the governments of the region, most notably that of Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, has enabled the destruction of formerly protected areas, including hundreds of Indigenous lands.
HELP COIAB BATTLE THE HISTORIC AMAZON FIRES TODAY
We also want to make an international call for the lives of the Indigenous Peoples living in Isolation that inhabit the Brazilian Amazon. We do not have information about these groups current situations in the midst of the flames, but they live in the jungles that have been affected. The devastation is so aggressive that we have deep doubts about its ability to survive this historic crisis. A call to the Brazilian government to stop this genocide and act efficiently and respectfully to guarantee the survival of Indigenous peoples is urgently needed.
