Tag: indigenous lands

• Wednesday, March 15th 2023 - 09:58 UTC

  Lula insists on demarcating indigenous lands in Amazon rainforest

  

  President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Tuesday pledged to expand the indigenous territories in northeast Brazil in a move to expel organized crime groups extracting natural resources from those areas.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Catholic Church claims invasions of indigenous lands in Brazil has jumped under the Bolsonaro administration

  

  The number of invasions of indigenous lands in Brazil has jumped in the first nine months of President Jair Bolsonaro's administration, a Brazilian Catholic Church agency said on Tuesday. The Missionary Indigenous Council said illegal miners, loggers and tappers of natural resources are involved in most of the invasions.