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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.

A solução para a crise mundial da água corre nas veias da Amazônia — SUMAÚMA

Se o objetivo é salvar o planeta da escassez, os acordos globais precisam garantir os direitos indígenas, proteger as nascentes dos rios e deletar os projetos de grandes hidrelétricas na floresta A solução para a crise mundial da água corre nas … Continue reading →

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Seabed Mining for the Sake of Clean Energy Is a Wicked Trade-Off! — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An investigation by conservationists has found evidence that  828 more words Seabed Mining for the Sake of Clean Energy Is a Wicked Trade-Off — Mother Jones

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Oro legale e oro illegale – Se la Barrick Gold Corporation oi cercatori d’oro stessero cercando l’oro nel tuo cortile e contaminassero la tua unica fonte d’acqua con cianuro o mercurio, saresti ancora decorato con gioielli, orologi e accessori d’oro?

Diritto alla vita invece dei profitti legali in oro! Più sai, meno l’oro brilla! Niente dice “ti amo” come… 20 tonnellate di rifiuti minerari?! Questa è la quantità di rifiuti di roccia estratti e scartati per produrre la quantità di … Continue reading →

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Operação Amazônia Verde desmonta 11 garimpos ilegais no Pará! — Ecoamazônia

Ação do ICMBio gerou mais de 11 milhões de reais em multas Entre os dias 4 e 22 de março, agentes de fiscalização do ICMBio estiveram em campo para a Operação Amazônia Verde. 35 more words Operação Amazônia Verde desmonta 11 … Continue reading →

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How Do You Keep Migrating Birds off a Giant Toxic Lake from a mining site? — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As darkness fell on Nov. 28, 2016, residents of Butte, Montana, heard the unmistakable honking of some 60,000 snow geese circling the Berkeley Pit, a … Continue reading →

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Oro legal y oro ilegal: si Barrick Gold Corporation o los buscadores estuvieran buscando oro en su patio trasero y contaminaran su única fuente de agua con cianuro o mercurio, ¿seguiría ataviado con joyas, relojes y accesorios de oro?

¡Derecho a la vida en lugar de ganancias de oro legal! ¡Cuanto más sabes, menos oro brilla! Nada dice “Te amo” como… ¡¿20 toneladas de desechos mineros?! ¡Esa es la cantidad de desechos de roca extraídos y descartados para producir … Continue reading →

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Leis frágeis ajudam expansão de garimpo ilegal na Amazônia, diz dossiê — Ecoamazônia

Um dossiê divulgado nesta semana aponta que o avanço do garimpo ilegal em terras indígenas na Amazônia está relacionado à falta de fiscalização, omissão das autoridades, leis frágeis e vulnerabilidade das áreas exploradas. 36 more words Leis frágeis ajudam expansão de … Continue reading →

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Mining Giant Is One Court Ruling Away From Destroying an Apache Holy Site! — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For nearly a decade, tribal leaders in Arizona have fought to save Oak Flat—a sacred site central to the religious practices of the San Carlos Apache … Continue reading →

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Ouro Legal e Ouro Ilegal – Se a Barrick Gold Corporation ou os garimpeiros estivessem garimpando ouro em seu quintal e contaminando sua única fonte de água com cianeto ou mercúrio, você ainda estaria enfeitado com joias, relógios e acessórios de ouro?

Local legal de mineração de ouro contamina terras Indígenas com cianeto! Direito à vida em vez de lucros legais de ouro! Local illegal de mineração de ouro contamina terras Indígenas com mercúrio! Nada diz “eu te amo” como… 20 toneladas … Continue reading →

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Estrategia de sostenibilidad financiera de los gobiernos Indígenas del macroterritorio de los jaguares del Yuruparí — Ecoamazônia

En los departamentos colombianos de Amazonas, Vaupés y Guainía se ubican las denominadas Áreas No Municipalizadas (ANM), territorios que han sido históricamente habitados por pueblos indígenas y hacen parte del extenso bosque tropical amazónico. 39 more words Estrategia de sostenibilidad financiera … Continue reading →

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