‘It’s our problem’: Brazilian drama brings Amazon rainforest battle to screen.

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Aruanas aims to make the environment an ‘everyday topic’ at a time when politics is dominated by the interests of agribusiness.

Aruanas follows three female activists who search to find out the truth behind a mining company that is illegally exploring for gold on protected land. Photograph: Fabio Rocha/TVGlobo
▼ Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, an environmental activist meets with a journalist who warns that a mining company is responsible for a looming environmental disaster. “People are already getting sick,” he warns, before promising to bring her documentary proof the next day.
But in the jungle, someone is watching. Driving to their next meeting, the activist hears a phone ringing in the back of her car. She opens the trunk – and finds the journalist’s dead body.
The gruesome discovery is the opening act of the latest blockbuster series from Brazil’s telenovela powerhouse TV Globo: Aruanas. The series focuses on environmental journalists and activists in the country’s vast, forested interior, where 57 environmental defenders were killed in 2017.
Brazil’s telenovelas have a history of shaping public opinion on current affairs – and this series tackles one of the country’s most pressing issues: the high-stakes battle over the world’s largest rainforest at a time when politics is dominated by the interests of agribusiness.
The largest caucus in Brazil’s congress – theruralistabloc – represents agribusiness interests, and in January their longtime ally, Jair Bolsonaro, became president.
Since then, Bolsonaro has launched an unprecedented  attack on environmental  protections, eliminating the post of secretary on climate change and stripping the environment ministry of authority.
Bolsonaro argues that the environmental protections in the Amazon hinder economic development and has promised that “not one more centimeter” of land would be allocated to indigenous tribes.
Such rhetoric has emboldened loggers, ranchers and big business interests eager to make money in the Amazon. Deforestation rose 88%in June compared to the same time last year, 169 new pesticideshave been approved for use this year and the minister of mines and energy said the government was planning to allow mining in  indigenous reserves.
But the vast majority of Brazil’s people live in cities, and  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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You have the search for gold we have the builders who want to grab tribal land which they want to sell as  prime property to the rich and famous including politicians. The builder politician lobby in India  are trying to evict  the tribals the original owners of the land of the forests. To do this apparently they release dangerous wild animals close to their homes hoping harm will come to the people who wont vacate and hoping that people will get scared and vacate. They feed the animals by dropping food from hovering helicopters . Its shocking. It happened in America when the lands were stolen from the native Indian owners of the black mountains...it happens in the Amazon...China looted African natural wealth under the guise of development and it happens in India.We need to wake up and remember the fragile earth photo taken by astronauts of Apollo 8 mission...its all we have.