September 5: Amazon Day The Amazon Day was established by the federal law n° 11.621 of 2007, and has been “celebrated” since 2008, on September 5th, as it coincides with the creation of the Province of Amazonas in 1850 by D. Pedro II. Therefore, the true meaning of remembering this day is to raise awareness …
IX National Meeting of Indigenous Students The National Meeting of Indigenous Students (ENEI) held its 9th edition with the theme “Ancestrality and Contemporaneity”, in the week of July 26 to 29, 2022, being hosted at the State University of Campinas – SP; the event covered approximately 2 thousand indigenous students from all 5 regions of …
The International Day of Indigenous Peoples The International Day of Indigenous Peoples is a date that symbolizes the resistance of the natives of the land, which refers to an ancestral struggle for diversity, respect, for the life of everything inside and outside the territories, whether they are demarcated or not. Among the 5 thousand indigenous …
The agouti and Brazil nut trees The Agouti, a small and agile rodent, is one of those responsible for the dispersion of Brazil nut trees in forests. The Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) is a native Amazon tree, and it is threatened with extinction in Brazil due to deforestation. The agoutis gnaw the fruit that …
Juma Institute in Austria: Erdgespräche Event and visit to the Presidential Palace On April 20, 2022, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen and his wife Doris Schmidauer received chieftain Juma Xipaia at his presidential palace in Vienna to talk about the crisis in the Amazon. Juma was very well received and was able to talk …
