By Piero Locatelli. Photos by Márcio Isensee e Sá and Piero Locatelli |
05/09/16
A calf is branded on the face with a hot iron in Mato Grosso, bulls are electroshocked to make them get on a truck in Goiás, an animal is beaten while walking across the stockyard, and a newborn is dragged by the neck in Mato Grosso do Sul. Scenes like these were...
Text by: Tatiana Farah; translated by Benjamin Blocksom. Photos by: Lilo Clareto |
02/06/16
Arlindo de Oliveira worked 30 years as a bricklayer in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil. Now, he’s found a new job in the Amazon. He buys up land in the path of proposed hydroelectric dams in order to get relocation compensation from the companies building them....
Text by: Tatiana Farah; translated by: Benjamin Blocksom. Photos: Lilo |
26/04/16
At least eight mammals not yet cataloged by science were discovered during the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Brazil’s Sao Luiz do Tapajós hydropower plant, proposed for the western part of the state of Pará. Ironically, even as these Amazonian species are...
Text by: Tatiana Farah; translated by: Benjamin Blocksom. Photos by: Lilo Clareto |
12/04/16
Fish kills, mercury contamination, the extinction of known aquatic species (along with others still not known to science), plus the physical and economic ruin of indigenous and traditional river communities. These are among the reasons not to build a series of...
Text by: Tatiana Farah; translated by: Benjamin Blocksom. Photos by: Lilo Clareto |
21/12/15
As night falls on the Areia Homestead Project, forty kilometers from the town of Trairão, in the western portion of Pará state, the silence is cut short by the roar of approaching motorcycles. Armed men wearing hoods to conceal their identities ride up and circle...
