Solutions www.nytimes.com Paulinho Paiakan, Indigenous defender of rainforest, dies at 67 Mr. Paiakan became celebrated internationally for his campaigns in Brazil, even appearing once with Sting. He died of Covid-19.
Causes www.nationalgeographic.com First coronavirus deaths reported in Indigenous communities in the Amazon “COVID-19 has fertile terrain to spread rapidly among the populations that live in Amazonia,” says president of prominent Brazilian rights group.
Solutions theintercept.com Ranchers emboldened by Bolsonaro are destroying a pioneering project to save the Amazon The American Catholic nun Dorothy Stang died defending a sustainable development model for the Amazon. Can her legacy survive in Bolsonaro’s Brazil?
