J de BrabanderOpen letter to the Cargill-MacMillan family. About Sawré Muybu Indigenous territory in the Amazon forest in the state of Pará, Brazil.
"Cargill, Cease Your Destruction!"
In every region where Cargill operates, you are destroying the environment and driving out or threatening the communities who live there.
by Beka Saw Munduruku for Common Dreams
Oct 12, 2023
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/cargill-amazon-destruction
Quotes
"We have lived here in the heart of the Amazon for over 4,000 years. But now our world hangs by a thread."
"There is illegal mining, there is illegal logging. There is the theft of our land and our trees and the damming of rivers."
"There is the murder of those who defend the land and the brutal intimidation of our leaders."
"Last year the forests and savannas of the Cerrado were destroyed at a rate of 8,000 acres a day."
