#prayforamazonia-Upside Down World-
“The fact that the Amazon is still seen as something faraway and also, or mainly, as a periphery shows just how stupid white Western culture is—a culture first of European roots and then of U.S. ones, and a stupidity that molds and shapes the political and economic elites of the world and likewise of Brazil. Also, to some extent, the intellectual elites of Brazil and the planet. Believing the Amazon is faraway and that it is a periphery, when the only chance of controlling global heating is to keep the forest alive, reflects ignorance of continental proportions. The forest is the closest close that all of us here have. And the fact that many of us feel faraway when we are here only shows how much our eyes have been contaminated, formatted, and distorted. Colonized.” Eliane Brum

My kids now know that the native Amazonian people have protected the forest for millennia. That their sacred land holds gold and other riches that the greedy West seeks to extract. That the Brazilian president and his allies’ rhetoric in favour of developing the Amazon validate all sorts of crimes and invasions. . While transforming these images with them I could personally touch on the grief felt for the fact that whole tribes can cease to exist yet show my children the beauty of the moments I shared with such peoples and landscape.

#prayforamazonia-Virus
The virus swept through the region like past plagues that have travelled the river with colonisers and corporations (New York Times)

#prayforamazonia- Blood on His Hands
“BRAZIL’S far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is accused of having blood on his hands yesterday after a young indigenous land-defender was shot dead by illegal loggers in the Amazon.”

#prayforamazonia-Ritual I
“My kids now know that fires are started on purpose and then the cattle and soya comes. They know that the indigenous people can become more ill of Covid than us people in the cities. They know there is blood involved.”

#prayforamazonia-Roots
"For us to be capable of resisting, we must become the forest—and resist like the forest,” Eliane Brum, Brazilian newspaper reporter and filmmaker based in the Amazon city of Altamira.”

#prayforamazonia-Dont' Look Away
“The increase in violence in indigenous territories is a direct result of his hateful speeches and steps taken against our people.”

#prayforamazonia- Ilness
"Definition of ethnocide: the deliberate destruction of an ethnic culture"

"Bolsonarism’s number-one power project is to turn the public lands that serve everyone—because they guarantee the preservation of natural biomes and the life of native peoples—into private lands that profit a few. These lands, most of which lie in the Amazon Forest, include the public lands to which Indigenous peoples have the constitutional right of use." Eliane Brum

#prayforamazonia- Wounded Rivers
"Rivers are the givers of abundance and life yet can bring death and disease."

#prayforamazonia-Guardians of the Forest
Blood in the Amazon: Brazilian activists are murdered as Deforestation Increases

#prayforamazonia-Plant Wisdom
“In a normal year, the Amazon rainforest absorbs about 2.2 billion tons (2 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide, studies suggest.”

#prayforamazonia-Rainforest
“The Amazon River basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth, covering about 2.67 million square miles (6.9 million square kilometres) in seven countries.”

#prayforamazonia- "The Amazon Is Ours”
"New study shows gold mining in the Amazon is leeching nitrogen out of the soil, raising mercury concentrations and stopping new trees from growing for years.”

#prayforamazonia- Carbon Storing
“Today, president Jair Bolsonaro, is weakening the environmental protections there in order to give agriculture more power. This came to a head when, in summer 2019, more than 30,000 wildfires burned in the Amazon, sparking worldwide outrage”

#prayforamazonia-Vultures
“The Amazon rainforest has been reduced by about 17% since the 1970s. Cattle ranchers, loggers, and farmers are mostly to blame for the deforestation, but the demand driving them comes from all around the world. Brazil's economy depends on agriculture, especially beef and soy, which is grown on cleared land in the Amazon.”

#prayforamazonia- Praying is not enough
“Social media users concerned over the long-term environmental consequences of deforestation and fires in the Amazon region began the online campaign #prayforamazonia to bring awareness to the issue.”

#prayforamazonia-making off

#prayforamazonia-Making off

#prayforamazonia-Making off