Puncturing the lungs of the planet

Jan 03, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched an assault on environmental and Amazon protections with an executive order transferring the regulation and creation of new indigenous reserves to the agriculture ministry – which is controlled by the powerful agribusiness lobby.
The move has sparked serious concern for indigenous leaders, who feel it threatened their reserves, which make up about 13% of Brazilian territory, and marked a symbolic concession to farming interests at a time when deforestation is rising again. Although it was expected from this president, no one thought it would come so quickly.
It is disheartening to witness the signing of an executive order by the President of Brazil that can cause a dismantling of the Amazon and its inhabitants, especially indigenous people. This move can cause serious damage to the entire plant, since the Amazon is considered to be the lungs of the planet.
Guyana has been the champion of protecting the rainforest and its inhabitants. Guyana has a strong voice in protecting the environment, since we share the remnants of the Amazon. I urge every Guyanese and most especially leaders, churches and organizations in the hinterlands, to raise an active voice against this decision to dismantle the Amazon.

Yours faithfully
Kevin Ram

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