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About Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

I'm a French artist living near Paris. From 1968 to 1973 I studied at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, then at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, for my BFA. My work for many decades has been informed and inspired by time spent with indigenous communities. Various study trips devoted to the exploration of techniques and natural pigments took me originally to the Dogon of Mali, West Africa, and subsequently to Yanomami communities in Venezuela and Brazil. Over many years, during the winters, I studied the techniques of traditional Bogolan painting. Hand woven fabric is dyed with boiled bark from the Wolo tree or crushed leaves from other trees, then painted with mud from the Niger river which oxidizes in contact with the dye. Through the Dogon and the Yanomami, my interest in the multiplicity of techniques and supports for aesthetic expression influenced my artistic practice. The voyages to the Amazon Rainforest have informed several series of paintings created while living among the Yanomami. The support used is roughly woven canvas prepared with acrylic medium then textured with a mixture of sand from the river bank and lava. This supple canvas is then rolled and transported on expeditions into the forest. They are then painted using a mixture of acrylic colors and Achiote and Genipap, the vegetal pigments used by the Yanomami for their ritual body paintings and on practical and shamanic implements. My concern for the ongoing devastation of the Amazon Rainforest has inspired my films and installation projects. Since 2005, I've created a perfomance and film project - Fire Sculpture - to bring urgent attention to Rainforest issues. To protest against the continuing destruction, I've publicly set fire to my totemic sculptures. These burning sculptures symbolize the degradation of nature and the annihilation of indigenous cultures that depend on the forest for their survival.

Electric fencing safeguards declining wader populations! — The Applied Ecologist

Originally posted and adapted from a RSPB Centre for Conservation Science and Vogelbescherming Nederland blog. Insufficient reproduction as a consequence of predation is a major determinant of population decline in ground-nesting birds. Malcolm Burgess and colleagues discuss their latest study … Continue reading →

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La Terre et les peuples autochtones meurent pour notre obsession de l’or ! Choisissez le droit à la vie plutôt que les profits sur l’or ! 

photo : Barrick Gold Corporation L’or est une relique coloniale que nous devons de toute urgence reconnaître comme essentiellement sans valeur – la déforestation, la pollution et les impacts catastrophiques sur l’eau, la faune et les communautés autochtones sont principalement … Continue reading →

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Venezuela – Eles acusam Bolívar e Amazonas de estarem “seriamente expostos” ao mercúrio! — Ecoamazônia

Durante o ano de 2022, o Projeto EPA denunciou em diversas ocasiões a extração mineira na área que compõe o Arco Mineiro do Orinoco. O sul do país está “seriamente exposto” ao mercúrio como resultado da mineração ilegal que ocorre … Continue reading →

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The threat to seabirds and the Barents Sea! — The Applied Ecologist

Feature photo: The Hornøya cliffs with nesting seabirds, including Kittiwakes, Common Guillemots and possibly Razorbills © Biotope In their latest research, Sam Hodges and colleagues present a novel solution that may help guide ecosystem management practices by predicting the effects … Continue reading →

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The Earth and Indigenous peoples are dying for our Gold obsession! Choose the Right to Life over gold profits!

photo: Barrick Gold Corporation Gold is a colonial relic that we urgently need to recognize as essentially worthless – the deforestation, pollution and catastrophic impacts on water, wildlife and Indigenous communities is mainly for futile and superficial jewelry and financial … Continue reading →

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STF invalida mais uma lei estadual que proibia destruição de bens apreendidos em operações ambientais — Ecoamazônia

Para o Plenário, a lei de Rondônia é incompatível com as normas gerais sobre proteção do meio ambiente editadas pela União. O Plenário do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) declarou, por unanimidade, a inconstitucionalidade de lei do Estado de Rondônia que … Continue reading →

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Rich Nations Are Burying the Developing World in Plastic Waste! — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. High-income countries have long sent their waste abroad to be thrown away or recycled—and an independent team of experts says they’re inundating the developing world … Continue reading →

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TUTTE LE MINIERE D’ORO SONO UNA SCENA DEL CRIMINE! Sia l’estrazione dell’oro legale che quella illegale sono entrambe distruttive!

UNISCITI A NOI PER ALTRE 2 SETTIMANE DI AZIONE GLOBALE CONTRO BARRICK GOLD! In solidarietà con le comunità colpite dall’ESTRAZIONE LEGALE DELL’ORO di BARRICK GOLD! In solidarietà con le comunità colpite da BARRICK GOLD Corporation! Nel rapporto sui diritti umani … Continue reading →

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Um repórter do outro lado da notícia: ‘Depois que a água entra, não há retorno’ — SUMAÚMA

Jornalista amazônida especializado na cobertura de eventos climáticos extremos conta a dor de ser atingido por um deles quando o igarapé São Francisco, no Acre, avançou sobre ruas e casas Um repórter do outro lado da notícia: ‘Depois que a água … Continue reading →

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Native people are leading the “fastest growing” environmental movement! — Darcy Hitchcock

What if people didn’t own a forest but the forest owned itself? Listen to this interesting podcast featuring indigenous Rights of Nature leaders Native people are leading the “fastest growing” environmental movement — Darcy Hitchcock

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