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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.

GENOCÍDIO: Mais de 570 crianças Yanomami menores de cinco anos morreram nos últimos quatro anos de doenças evitáveis ​​diretamente ligadas à mineração ilegal de ouro! A fronteira Brasil/Venezuela é dominada pela mineração ilegal de ouro há décadas e uma parte substancial do ouro de sangue Yanomami transita pela Venezuela e se infiltra na cadeia global de abastecimento de ouro, declarado com documentos falsos como ouro de “origem legal”!

“Mais do que uma crise humanitária, o que vi em Roraima foi um genocídio. Um crime premeditado contra os Yanomami, cometido por um governo indiferente ao sofrimento do povo brasileiro”, disse Lula, o recém-eleito presidente, após visitar um centro de … Continue reading

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La Amazonía perdió 9,7% de su vegetación natural en 37 años — Ecoamazônia

Los datos más recientes de MapBiomas Amazonía refuerzan la necesidad de una acción internacional integrada para revertir la actual tendencia de destrucción que, de persistir, llevará al bioma más allá de su punto de no retorno a finales de esta … Continue reading

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Climate change, agrarian justice and pastoralism — Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience – PASTRES

Information on a conference in September 2022 about climate and agrarian justice. Climate change, agrarian justice and pastoralism — Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience – PASTRES

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GÉNOCIDE : Plus de 570 enfants Yanomami de moins de cinq ans sont morts au cours des quatre dernières années de maladies évitables directement liées à l’extraction illégale d’or ! La frontière Brésil/Venezuela est dominée par l’extraction illégale d’or depuis des décennies et une partie substantielle de l’or du sang Yanomami transite par le Venezuela et s’infiltre dans la chaîne mondiale d’approvisionnement en or, déclarée avec de faux documents comme de l’or “d’origine légale” !

“Plus qu’une crise humanitaire, ce que j’ai vu à Roraima était un génocide. Un crime prémédité contre les Yanomami, commis par un gouvernement indifférent à la souffrance du peuple brésilien”, a déclaré Lula, le président nouvellement élu, au lendemain d’une … Continue reading

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We can still see these 5 traces of ancestor species in all human bodies today | The Conversation — msamba

Alice Clement Alice Clement is a Friend of The Conversation. Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University Elia Pellegrini/Unsplash If we go far enough back in time, we all share an ancestor. And some of the … Continue reading

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Como chegamos aos 570 pequenos indígenas mortos — SUMAÚMA

O delicado caminho do jornalismo para evitar cometer violência ao denunciar violências Como chegamos aos 570 pequenos indígenas mortos — SUMAÚMA

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GENOCIDE: Over 570 Yanomami children under the age of five have died in the past four years from preventable diseases which are directly linked to illegal gold mining!  The Brazil/Venezuela border has been dominated by illegal gold mining for decades and a substantial part of Yanomami blood gold transits through Venezuela and filters into the global gold supply chain, declared with false documents as “legally sourced” gold!

“More than a humanitarian crisis, what I saw in Roraima was a genocide. A premeditated crime against the Yanomami, committed by a government impervious to the suffering of the Brazilian people,” newly-elected President Lula said the day after visiting a … Continue reading

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Genocídio Yanomami gera primeiro movimento humanitário de reconstrução do Brasil — SUMAÚMA

Após 4 anos de destruição dos laços de comunidade e solidariedade pelo governo Bolsonaro, o colapso sanitário que já matou 570 crianças de menos de 5 anos na terra indígena começa a unir brasileiras e brasileiros em torno de uma … Continue reading

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Human Rights Watch urge a Lula revertir “la destrucción desenfrenada” de la Amazonía! — Stigmatis News

El Gobierno de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva necesita “implementar inmediatamente” un plan contra “la destrucción desenfrenada” de la Amazonía brasileña, tras cuatro años en los que Jair Bolsonaro debilitó “severamente” la fiscalización ambiental, […] Human Rights Watch urge a Lula … Continue reading

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«I cercatori d’oro stanno distruggendo i nostri fiumi, la nostra foresta e nostri figli. La nostra aria non è più pulita, il nostro gioco sta scomparendo e la nostra gente piange e chiede acqua pulita. Vogliamo vivere, vogliamo riconquistare la nostra pace e il nostro territorio.»

Sei tu? «I miei nonni pescavano in questo fiume per sfamare la comunità. Ora è pieno di contaminazione da fanghi, benzina, diesel e mercurio. I pesci stanno morendo e la nostra terra Yanomami sta morendo. Noi Yanomami stiamo soffrendo, non … Continue reading

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