Category:When Rocks Talk & Rivers Walk

Category:The Amazon

WATCH: Brazil licensed their rocky fishery to be exploded. These riverfolk are defending their ancestral territory

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.

"We are the owners of the Tocantins River"

WATCH: Brazil licensed their rocky fishery to be exploded. These riverfolk are defending their ancestral territory