Maurício Torres

Maurício Torres is a contributor to Mongabay.

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Human Rights

Brazil to Open Indigenous Reserves to Mining Without Indigenous Consent

The Bolsonaro administration’s plan violates indigenous land rights as guaranteed under Brazil's 1988 constitution.

By: Sue Branford &; Maurício Torres ,; Mongabay

March 17, 2019

News Analysis

If Brazil Allows Terra Legal Changes, Land Grabbers Win and the Amazon Loses

New bill would alter federal program meant to provide peasants with small land plots into a land giveaway for big landowners.

By: Maurício Torres &; Sue Branford ,; Mongabay

June 21, 2017

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Brazil Assaults Indigenous Rights, Environment, Social Movements

The Temer administration is provoking violence, while trashing environmental, indigenous and social rights.

By: Maurício Torres &; Sue Branford ,; Mongabay

June 7, 2017

News

Indigenous Groups, Amazon’s Best Land Stewards, Under Federal Attack

Brazil's Temer government, backed by the agribusiness lobby, seems determined to reduce Indigenous rights and end recognition of new Indigenous territories.

By: Maurício Torres &; Sue Branford ,; Mongabay

April 15, 2017

News

Human Rights

“Day of Terror”: Munduruku Village Attacked by Brazil’s Federal Police

A brutal federal police raid on an Amazon Indigenous village in 2012 ended in gunfire and blood.

By: Maurício Torres &; Sue Branford ,; Mongabay

February 5, 2017

News

Environment & Health

Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin Threatened by Massive Development

Brazil's soy farmers and traders want to turn the Tapajos Basin into an industrialized commodities export corridor.

By: Maurício Torres &; Sue Branford ,; Mongabay

January 22, 2017

News

The End of a People: Amazon Dam Destroys Sacred Munduruku “Heaven“

Brazil dynamited an indigenous sacred site to make way for Teles Pires dam.

By: Maurício Torres &; Sue Branford ,; Mongabay

January 19, 2017

News Analysis

Environment & Health

Temer Government Set to Overthrow Brazil’s Environmental Agenda

Brazil's powerful agribusiness lobby is pushing a raft of new laws to set back environmental and Indigenous protections by 30 years.

By: Maurício Torres &; Sue Branford ,; Mongabay

December 27, 2016

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