The temporary framework perpetuates the usurpation of lands, according to the leader of the Yanomami people – 06/07/2023 – Science and Health

2023-06-07 17:42:00

For Davi Kopenawa, a shaman and political leader of the Yanomami people, the approval of the temporary framework – a “big snake” – will make it easier for illegal miners and usurpers, who are currently operating in hiding, to invade indigenous lands.

Leader of the mobilization that led to the demarcation of the Yanomami Indigenous Land in 1992, Kopenawa says he is hopeless at the lack of protection for the land. “I’ve already waited, like, 20 years… I’ve never been successful. The damage is only increasing.”

According to the leader, the operations of the Federal Government to expel the miners need the support of the Army, especially at the borders. “But the military is not helping, because they are in favor of the usurpers working underground,” he says.

Kopenawa is launching a new book, called “Espírito da Floresta” (Companhia das Letras). He says his works are warnings against threats to the earth, and he refuses to call them “climate change.” “For me, change is revenge on earth.”

_{Translated by AZAHARA MARTIN ORTEGA}

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