Brazil licensed their rocky fishery to be exploded. These Amazonian riverfolk are defending their ancestral territory. Part 1 (video)
Brazil has licensed explosions of the Lourenção Rocks, a vital Amazon fishery and biodiversity refuge, as part of plans to open the Tocantins River to agribusiness shipping. Riverfolk who depend on the area say their rights were violated and they were never consulted.
The Lourenção Rocks fishery on the Tocantins River in the Brazilian Amazon, December. Riverfolk who have fished these stony depths for generations say the federal government violated their rights by licensing the detonation of their fishing grounds for an agribusiness shipping channel, without consultation. Photo: Tiffany Higgins
