Street artists and volunteer firefighters are linking up to fight wildfires and deforestation.
, in the smallest demarcated Indigenous reservation in Brazil. She is one of five women who founded the Indigenous Brigade Pico do Jaraguá, where nearly 800 people live in six villages. Ara Mirin started to notice the forest fires approaching their villages in 2019.“The state firefighters took too long to get to our area,” Ara Mirin explained. “We started to see too many wild animals dying and were concerned about the fires getting to our homes as well.
The dismantling of the environmental protection agencies and frameworks in Brazil by Bolsonaro’s government, and the record-breaking deforestation in recent years, had been bothering Mundano. But the A clown named Curumim arriving at Aldeia Solimoes, in the Amazon, in one of Saúde e Alegria hospital boats.The fires in the Amazon are not new for Scanavino. For two decades now Saúde e Alegria has supported local campaigns led by the state firefighters to prevent fires, including the training of local brigades in the area of the Tapajós River in the Amazon. “I’ve seen large fires in our region. In 2011, in 2019 … and we’ve always made ourselves available to support,” he said.
“We started our volunteer brigade with a few people in 2017,” Romano explained. “Then in 2019 we expanded.” So he and his friends began fundraising. The police unit leading the case accused the volunteer brigade of setting fire to the forest to receive funds from WWF with the support of Saúde e Alegria. Scanavino describes those days as the worst in a lot of people’s lives. Some of his friends were arrested; he, his work colleagues and their families were threatened in their homes, and ridiculed and defamed on social media.
Vinicius Mendes couldn’t believe it when he saw his face on the mural in São Paulo. He explained that the person on the wall is not him, but a representation of all volunteer brigadistas, people he loves and respects. “These people who leave their families to go put out the fires, who are not even recognized as a working category as per the Brazilian labor code.”For Mundano, to see another of his projects being discussed in schools throughout the city is one of the greatest rewards.
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