Tag: Raoni Metuktire

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:03 UTC

  Amazon forest Chief blasts Bolsonaro for blaming wildfire on tribes: “that is a lie”

  

  Chief Raoni Metuktire, one of the most iconic defenders of the Amazon, condemned Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for blaming wildfires devastating the rainforest on indigenous people.

• Monday, July 20th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  Amazon indigenous leader defender stable after blood transfusion in hospital

  

  Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, one of the Amazon rainforest's best-known defenders, is “stable” after receiving a blood transfusion in hospital, his institute said on Sunday. Raoni, chief of the Kayapo people in northern Brazil, has been hospitalized since Thursday for weakness, shortness of breath, poor appetite, and diarrhea.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 12:03 UTC

  Amazon indigenous leaders summit to form alliance against Bolsonaro's environmental policy

  

  Dozens of Amazon indigenous leaders have gathered in the heart of the threatened rainforest to form an alliance against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy and his threats to throw their homelands open to mining concerns.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Brazilian chief Raoni on a European tour to counter growing threats to Amazon

  

  Brazil's legendary indigenous chief Raoni arrived in Paris on Sunday for the start of a three-week tour across Europe where he will meet heads of state, celebrities and the Pope to highlight growing threats to the Amazon.