Who does the Amazon belong to?
The showdown over the burning of the Brazilian rainforest foreshadows battles to come.
Wildfires in Brazil鈥檚 Amazon rainforest are burning at a record rate. It鈥檚 caused global anger and anxiety with more than three million people sharing the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia. Criticism has been directed at the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for failing to protect the rainforest and rejecting $22 million of aid money.
In this episode we look at who has ownership over the Amazon and other places of environmental importance like the Arctic. We speak to Jon Lee Anderson, a journalist at the New Yorker Magazine who has been visiting indigenous people in Brazil for years. We also hear from 大象传媒 journalist Camilla Veras Mota who last week travelled to see the fires in Porto Velho. And Juliana Gragnani from the 大象传媒鈥檚 Brazilian service tells us what Brazilians make of all the outside attention and who they blame for the fires.
Producer: Duncan Barber.
Mixed by Andy Mills.
Editor: John Shields.
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