*[Enwl-eng] Saving the rainforest

Sat Jan 10 21:15:24 MSK 2026

When you take action, you can make change.
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      Saving the rainforest
      When you take action, you can make change.
                        Eoin Higgins 

                        Jan 8 

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      Ana Laide Soares Barbosa’s Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre is part of the Volta Grande do Xingu Alliance, a coalition aimed at protecting the Amazon region from development (Ekō is also a member).

      We wanted to hear from Ana about the work she did in 2025, and where the alliance is headed this year. 

      Can you tell us about your work in 2025?

      Our work was carried out on two fronts, namely:

        1.. Legal and political advocacy and defense. Working with bodies such as the State and Federal Public Defender’s Offices, the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) and the State and Federal Public Prosecutor’s Offices, as well as special UN and IACHR spaces and reports, in cases that seek to defend the territory of traditional and Indigenous communities not living in villages threatened by the Belo Sun mining company, and also in cases of criminalization and threats to human rights defenders. 
        We also work on political advocacy with government structures such as Incra, Ibama, Funai, the Ministry of Human Rights and others.

        2.. Fieldwork carried out with communities and leaders in Volta Grande do Xingu affected and/or threatened by large projects in the region, working on training to confront threats, rights violations, criminalization and conflicts, on the one hand, and on building a life project that includes the management of their territories in an environmentally, culturally, politically and economically sustainable manner, on the other. 
        Since 2023, this process has included working with landless campers who are facing the transfer of areas of an agrarian reform settlement to the mining company Belo Sun; and, since 2025, direct work with Juruna, Kayapó, Akroá Gamella and Xipaya indigenous families seeking recognition of their territories, which have been usurped by megaprojects in Volta Grande do Xingu.

      What is the status of the Belo Sun project? Are you working to block it?

      ⁠The Belo Sun project’s license has currently been shelved by the Pará State Environment Secretariat. The agreement between the Belo Sun company and the Institute of Agrarian Reform (INCRA), which ceded approximately 2,400 hectares of the PA Ressaca settlement, was annulled by the federal judge of the Altamira-PA court and ratified by the judge who took over the case when it was contested by the mining company. 

      This case is awaiting an appeal decision. In the second week of December, Belo Sun was the target of a protest by Indigenous women from the Middle Xingu. This demonstration resulted in the submission of guidelines questioning the studies and consultations carried out with the communities surrounding the project.

      The results of the political and legal incidents were supported by the groundwork and research carried out through my work in the field, as well as the occupation of the agrarian reform plots granted by INCRA to Belo Sun.

      How can Ekō’s audience help?

        a.. Effective security for the approximately 200 families we work with in the Volta Grande do Xingu, the 50 families occupying the land that Belo Sun stole from the Agrarian Reform

        b.. Contributions to expand other groups to influence the autonomy of the territories of the Volta Grande do Xingu

        c.. Financial contributions through campaigns for the work that the Xingu Vivo Movement develops in defense of traditional communities and the environment

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