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<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">BREAKING NEWS:
Investigative journalists have just revealed
<STRONG>land-grabbers are selling stolen Amazon
rainforest on
Facebook</STRONG>. <BR><BR><STRONG>Tell Facebook to
listen to indigenous communities who live there and stop
stolen land being advertised on its Marketplace,
NOW.</STRONG><BR></SPAN></P>
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<P><STRONG>For sale on Facebook: Brazil’s Amazon
rainforest. </STRONG></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">A groundbreaking BBC investigation
has just revealed that plots of </SPAN><STRONG>Amazon rainforest --
including national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples
-- is being sold illegally</STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">
via Facebook’s classified ads service, Marketplace.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">And </SPAN><STRONG>Facebook
doesn’t seem to want to do much about it.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Fuelled by the cattle ranching industry,</STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"> and in the knowledge that remote locations
won’t be inspected by the authorities, </SPAN><STRONG>‘investors’
are clearing forest ready for farming and selling it
off</STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">Facebook, once again, is hiding
behind its usual excuse that it ‘requires buyers and sellers to
comply with laws and regulations’. </SPAN><STRONG>But really, does
it expect land invaders willing to steal land from indigenous
communities to care about its toothless policy?</STRONG></P>
<P><A style="COLOR: #00abbd; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"
title="Facebook: stop land invaders from selling stolen land on Marketplace!"
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/563784?t=1&akid=85883%2E15424008%2E6B_YH9">Facebook:
stop land invaders from selling stolen land on
Marketplace!</A><U></U></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">Indigenous communities like the
</SPAN><STRONG>Uru Eu Wau Wau people rely on the land to hunt, fish
and collect fruits.</STRONG></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">But with deforestation in the
Brazilian Amazon at a 10-year high, continued land grabs are
described by </SPAN><STRONG>community leader Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau
as an attempt </STRONG><STRONG><EM>‘to deforest our
lives’.</EM></STRONG></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">To make matters worse, those
</SPAN><STRONG>involved in the illegal land market do so expecting
the Bolsonaro government will declare an amnesty </STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">on the stolen land. Once they’ve deforested
it they plead with politicians to </SPAN><STRONG>abolish its
protected status, on the basis it no longer serves its original
purpose. Then they can legalise their claims.</STRONG></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">And </SPAN><STRONG>Facebook
Marketplace has become their go-to site to sell plots up to the size
of 1,000 football pitches.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><A style="COLOR: #00abbd; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"
title="Facebook: stop land crimes from being committed on your platform."
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/563784?t=2&akid=85883%2E15424008%2E6B_YH9">Facebook:
stop land crimes from being committed on your
platform.</A><U></U></STRONG></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">Tell Facebook it can’t look away
while land invaders profit from their crimes on its
platform.</SPAN></P><IMG alt=""
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<P><EM><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">More
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href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/563782?t=12&akid=85883%2E15424008%2E6B_YH9"
rel=noopener target=_blank>Amazon rainforest plots sold via Facebook
Marketplace ads</A> BBC, 25 February 2021</DIV></TD></TR>
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align=left><B>From:</B> <A title=us@sumofus.org
href="mailto:us@sumofus.org">Ignacio Petitcollot, SumOfUs</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial" align=left><B>Sent:</B> Saturday,
February 27, 2021 3:04 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial" align=left><B>Subject:</B> The Amazon
is for sale on Facebook?!</DIV>
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