CILT / BRASÍLIA - BRAZIL / 2D / Teacher: Cristina Lourenço - "Case study"

Oct 1, 2017 by Ingrid Aimê Freire Rodrigues

The case I chose was a recent decree by President Temer, which releases an area of more than 4 millions of hectares for the exploration of ores such as manganese, gold, iron and copper. The decree was made without any debate with specialists, indigenous people who live on the premises, or with the country's own population, which is already something of a lot of irresponsibility. But to worsen, it also has not departed from any assessment of the conditions of the forest and the people who live there.

The area called RENCA, has more than 46,000 km² (a little larger than the territory of Denmark) and contains two indigenous reserves (Wayampi and Rio Paru d'este) with more than 3,000 inhabitants, in addition to areas of environmental preservation.

This case has generated great worldwide repercussion, and members of the international media commented about:

TheGuardians: "Brazil abolishes huge Amazon reserve in ' biggest attack ' in 50 years [...]"

The New York Times: "The Brazilian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature says Wednsday's decree will create conflicts between indigenous people and conservation working in the area [..]"

The consequences for this decision can be several, even with the exploitation of a small area. In addition to the pollution that can be made within the forest; the deforestation of the areas that will be mined; and the fauna, the flora and the indigenous people who inhabit the region can be threatened; a type of excavation will occur to reach the underground, with the danger of raining and the sediments formed move to the rivers and end up causing the silting up of the water. As a domino effect, a problem carries another worse.

As worse, I can cite as an example the fact that they are playing with the Amazon, the lung of the world, and the last rainforest that is protected.

We can even consider that some of the consequences are already happening. Clandestine mining in these areas is a major problem nowadays. More than 1,000 miners explore the resources of the place due to government failure supervision. That means that illegally, people are already degrading nature only for money.

Attitudes must be taken on all of this, deforestation leads Brazil to unfulfilling commitments made with the world in the fight of global warming.

This was my research and I used a report of a program called "Spectacular Sunday", published on August 27, 2017.

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