July 02, 2019 | El Pais
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Cuiabá, Brasil—"My life is defending this place," shares Eduardo Morimã, of the apika Indigenous group, and who lives in Juara, which is in the north of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Situated in the heart of the country, this area is in one of the eyes of the storm of deforestation in the Amazon due to intensive cattle ranching and soy, corn, and cotton monocultures that make up part of the agricultural belt in the region. Beyond the impact on the flora and fauna of this watershed, and much like the displacement of populations, the construction of a project of hundreds of hydroelectric dams would worsen deforestation indicators in the region.