{"id":10224,"date":"2025-11-09T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-amazonians-who-dont-care-who-trump-is-and-their-fight-to-protect-home\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:07:39","slug":"the-amazonians-who-dont-care-who-trump-is-and-their-fight-to-protect-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-amazonians-who-dont-care-who-trump-is-and-their-fight-to-protect-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazonians who don&#8217;t care who Trump is &#8211; and their fight to protect home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Out of the window is Brazil&rsquo;s cattle country.<\/p>\n<p>Huge Texan-style ranches are interspersed with ugly towns that grew up around Brazil&rsquo;s westward expansion of the 1970s and 80s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-custom-markup \" data-component-name=\"ui-article-custom-markup\" data-testid=\"article-custom-markup\">\n<div class=\"flourish-embed\" data-src=\"story\/3421653?2738516\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s almost impossible to imagine that when I was a child, all this was an impenetrable rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>Now only fragments remain. And a warming climate is helping take what&rsquo;s left.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-site-video callfn\" data-account-id=\"6058004172001\" data-amp-iframe-embed data-asset-id=\"1b6f4daa-a22d-4d14-bb36-c17fea628193\" data-asset-path data-asset-version data-autoplay=\"false\" data-auth-config data-caption=\"The fight to save the Amazon\" data-clip-type data-component-name=\"sdc-site-video\" data-component-name-alias=\"ui-sitewide-video\" data-competition data-copy-url-text=\"URL copied to clipboard\" data-fn=\"sdc-site-video\" data-id=\"id_1b6f4daa-a22d-4d14-bb36-c17fea628193\" data-is-live-stream=\"false\" data-lite=\"true\" data-options data-originator-id=\"-1\" data-originator-handle=\"brightcove-news-gb\" data-package-name data-provider=\"brightcove\" data-player-id=\"yjBoKQ5XA\" data-playsinline data-sensitive data-sdc-id=\"7075445\" data-sdc-video-id=\"1b6f4daa-a22d-4d14-bb36-c17fea628193\" data-sport-category data-state=\"loading\" data-token-state=\"none\" data-video-ad-unit data-video-blacklisted-originator-ids data-video-id=\"ref:1b6f4daa-a22d-4d14-bb36-c17fea628193\" data-video-type data-auto-pause-on-not-visible=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-closed-captions-position=\"middle-third\" data-show-closed-captions=\"true\" data-show-pip=\"true\" data-show-live-stream-scrubber=\"true\" data-autoload=\"false\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-video__inner\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-video__content\" data-role=\"bridge-controller\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>              <span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-role=\"poster\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster\"><br>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-tom-clarke-forest-amazon_7075411.jpg?20251108111303\" alt aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"><span class=\"sdc-site-video__loader\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-loader\"><\/span><br>\n                <span class=\"sdc-site-video__time\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-time\">5:05<\/span><br>\n              <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>              <video id=\"id_1b6f4daa-a22d-4d14-bb36-c17fea628193\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id class=\"video-js sdc-site-video__tag\" controls playsinline data-testid=\"sitewide-video-video\"><\/video><\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"sdc-site-video__caption ui-media-caption\"><span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-role=\"caption-text\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-caption\">The fight to save the Amazon<\/span><br>\n            <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Along the road, we see fires. Despite vegetation appearing green and lush, they&rsquo;re burning intensely.<\/p>\n<p>Rainfall in this region is less than it was and dry season temperatures are around two degrees higher.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-custom-markup \" data-component-name=\"ui-article-custom-markup\" data-testid=\"article-custom-markup\">\n<div class=\"flourish-embed\" data-src=\"story\/3421063?2738516\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/story\/3421063\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"visualization\"><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When fires start &ndash; and there were around 140,000 of them last year, nearly all man-made &ndash; they burn for longer and more destructively.<\/p>\n<p>Despite significant reductions in deforestation by Brazilian President Lula da Silva&rsquo;s government, fires in 2024 claimed millions of hectares, diminishing the progress.<\/p>\n<p>And once the forest has burned, it typically loses its legal protection &ndash; and the cattle move in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>How can rainforests &ndash; one of the most important land-based stores of planet-warming carbon &ndash; stand up to pressure from climate and people?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps by having people in them, like the Kayapo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image sdc-article-image--full-bleed\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071764.jpg?20251104132441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/384x216\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071764.jpg?20251104132441 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071764.jpg?20251104132441 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/1600x900\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071764.jpg?20251104132441 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/2048x1152\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071764.jpg?20251104132441 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt data-testid=\"article-image-image\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>They are one of Brazil&rsquo;s 300-odd indigenous groups and have been one of the most successful in protecting their ancestral territory.<\/p>\n<p>No mean feat considering that the territory is the same size as Portugal and there are little more than 9,000 Kayapo.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, they killed invaders and violently resisted early efforts by the Brazilian government to claim their land.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-custom-markup \" data-component-name=\"ui-article-custom-markup\" data-testid=\"article-custom-markup\">\n<div class=\"flourish-embed\" data-src=\"story\/3421075?2738516\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/story\/3421075\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"visualization\"><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The village we arrive in is called Kubenkrankehn. It translates, ironically for me, as &ldquo;bald white man&rdquo; &ndash; an early missionary who came to convert the Kayapo here centuries ago. He didn&rsquo;t last long.<\/p>\n<p>The greeting we receive is the opposite, singing and dancing by villagers wearing feathered headdresses and hand-sewn beads &ndash; a display of tradition and unity that&rsquo;s been attributed to their success.<\/p>\n<p>But also, one for our cameras.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image sdc-article-image--full-bleed\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-brazil-cop_7071815.jpg?20251104142727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/384x216\/skynews-brazil-cop_7071815.jpg?20251104142727 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-brazil-cop_7071815.jpg?20251104142727 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/1600x900\/skynews-brazil-cop_7071815.jpg?20251104142727 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/2048x1152\/skynews-brazil-cop_7071815.jpg?20251104142727 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt=\"Kayapo territory in the Amazon\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\"><span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">Kayapo territory in the Amazon<br>\n        <\/span><br>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kayapos&rsquo; fight now is for recognition and financial support to protect their land as ranches, roads and illegal gold mines continue to eat away at the forest bordering their territory.<\/p>\n<p>After being taken to a guard post, we travel on to see what they&rsquo;re defending.<\/p>\n<p>And nothing has prepared me for how overwhelmingly beautiful it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<\/strong><br><strong>COP&rsquo;s potential for change limited by the elephants not in the room<\/strong><br><strong>Is net zero dead?<\/strong><br><strong>Few places explain world&rsquo;s refugee crisis as well as this<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image sdc-article-image--full-bleed\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071765.jpg?20251104132500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/384x216\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071765.jpg?20251104132500 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071765.jpg?20251104132500 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/1600x900\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071765.jpg?20251104132500 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/2048x1152\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071765.jpg?20251104132500 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt data-testid=\"article-image-image\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A land of waterfalls, towering trees and every inch of it roiling with life.<\/p>\n<p>Here, the buzzing, pinging and metallic ringing isn&rsquo;t from mobile phones, just millions of creatures that sound like them.<\/p>\n<p>An elder tells us how even this healthiest of forests has changed in response to warmer temperatures and declining rainfall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image sdc-article-image--full-bleed\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-cop-clarke_7071572.jpg?20251104112330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/384x216\/skynews-cop-clarke_7071572.jpg?20251104112330 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-cop-clarke_7071572.jpg?20251104112330 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/1600x900\/skynews-cop-clarke_7071572.jpg?20251104112330 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/2048x1152\/skynews-cop-clarke_7071572.jpg?20251104112330 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt data-testid=\"article-image-image\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He tells me the leaders who don&rsquo;t believe in climate change can only do so because they live in comfortable cities.<\/p>\n<p>So what, I ask, does he make of Donald Trump?<\/p>\n<p>He tells me he&rsquo;s never heard of him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-custom-markup \" data-component-name=\"ui-article-custom-markup\" data-testid=\"article-custom-markup\">\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-photo-slider\" data-src=\"visualisation\/26020789?2738516\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/26020789\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"photo-slider visualization\"><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kayapo are sending delegates to COP30, just as they have done for years.<\/p>\n<p>Not because they&rsquo;re that interested in the politics of climate change or the gathering pace of a low-carbon transition.<\/p>\n<p>Where developed world leaders see a challenge, they see an opportunity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image sdc-article-image--full-bleed\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071766.jpg?20251104132533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/384x216\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071766.jpg?20251104132533 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/768x432\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071766.jpg?20251104132533 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/1600x900\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071766.jpg?20251104132533 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/11\/2048x1152\/skynews-cop-brazil_7071766.jpg?20251104132533 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt=\"The Kayapo territory \" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\"><span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">The Kayapo territory<br>\n        <\/span><br>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rainforest is one of the most powerful storage systems for greenhouse gases. Sucking up the carbon we burn and turning it into life.<\/p>\n<p>With two, or more, degrees of global warming all but certain, keeping forests like theirs standing is one of our few insurance policies against a dangerously hotter future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>The Amazonians who don&rsquo;t care who Trump is &ndash; and their fight to protect home<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the window is Brazil&rsquo;s cattle country. Huge Texan-style ranches are interspersed with ugly towns that grew up around Brazil&rsquo;s westward expansion of the 1970s and 80s. It&rsquo;s almost impossible to imagine that when I was a child, all this was an impenetrable rainforest. Now only fragments remain. And a warming climate is helping&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-amazonians-who-dont-care-who-trump-is-and-their-fight-to-protect-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Amazonians who don&#8217;t care who Trump is &#8211; and their fight to protect home&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}