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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.

Why birds migrate vast distances – and how you can help during their breeding season! — Geography Directions

By Louise Gentle, Nottingham Trent University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Now that spring is in the air, the UK is starting to see its summer visitors arriving. Ospreys … Continue reading →

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Cette semaine, les Yanomami doivent célébrer le 30e anniversaire de la démarcation officielle de leur territoire le 25 mai 1992, mais des dizaines de milliers de mineurs d’or illégaux alliés à des gangs criminels armés opèrent en toute impunité sur leur territoire en ce moment, contaminant les rivières avec du mercure et intimidant et nuisant à la communauté !

« Mes grands-parents pêchaient dans cette rivière pour nourrir la communauté. Maintenant, il ne s’agit que de contamination par les boues, l’essence, le diesel et le mercure. Les poissons meurent et notre terre Yanomami se meurt. Nous Yanomami souffrons, nous n’avons … Continue reading →

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Indígenas protestan contra la minería ilegal en las reservas de Amazonía brasileña! — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

EFEBrasilia 12/04/2022 Pueblos indígenas perteneciente a uno de los pueblos reunidos en el Campamento Tierra Libre (ATL), protesta durante un acto llamado «Ouro de Sangue» (Oro de Sangre), en contra del incremento de la minería en territorios indígenas, hoy, en … Continue reading →

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If You Care About Humanity, Chill Out on the Steaks! — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Replacing 20 percent of the world’s beef consumption with microbial protein, such as Quorn, could halve the destruction of the planet’s forests over the next three … Continue reading →

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Today, the Yanomami should be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the official demarcation of their territory on May 25th, 1992, but tens of thousands of illegal gold miners allied with armed criminal gangs are acting with impunity in their territory right now, contaminating rivers with mercury and intimidating and harming the community!

« My grandparents fished to feed the community in this river. Now it’s just sludge, gasoline, diesel and mercury contamination. Fish die and our Yanomami land is dying.  We Yanomami suffer, we don’t have peace. The gold miners destroy our houses … Continue reading →

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Desmatamento e degradação florestal estão fora de controle na Amazônia, mostram dados do DETER

Desmatamento nos primeiros quatro meses do ano é 70% maior do que em 2021.  É o pior resultado para o mês de abril desde 2016: o DETER registrou uma área de 1.012 km² sob alerta na Amazônia Em abril de … Continue reading →

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In The Terrority: Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau protect their land in Brazil from invaders & illegal deforestation – KALW

In The Terrority, Uru-eu-wau-wau people protect their land from invaders & illegal deforestation – KALW https://ift.tt/LGJ9Cy7 In The Terrority, Uru-eu-wau-wau people protect their land from invaders & illegal deforestation  KALW Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/CGJZnQE In The Terrority, Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau … Continue reading →

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“Se stanno devastando l’Amazzonia in cerca di oro, c’è un mercato degli acquirenti. Chi compra questo oro? I grandi marchi e i marchi del mondo della moda?” Chi allora compra quest’oro come gingillo? Per favore assicurati che non sei tu!

PER FAVORE, ASCOLTA IL MESSAGGIO DELLO SCIAMANO YANOMAMI – L’APPELLO DELLA FORESTA PLUVIALE! « Ehi, guardaci! Ti vediamo Cerchiamo di mostrartelo Non ti sei mai preso la briga di imparare la nostra lingua Guardavi sempre in basso Ti avvertiamo dall’inizio La … Continue reading →

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Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies! — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Environmental science and conservation news — Read on news.mongabay.com/2022/05/rachel-carsons-silent-spring-60-years-on-birds-still-fading-from-the-skies/ Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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Indigenous and Alaska Native women could face escalated violence if Roe is repealed! — Stigmatis

According to the CDC, Indigenous and Alaska Native women and Black women are more likely to die as a result of pregnancy than white women. They are also two to three times more likely to die as a result of … Continue reading →

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