Amazon riverfolk warn blasting rocks for shipping route will kill fisheries

Mongabay
Feb 25, 2026, 2:00 am125 ptsTrending
ITUPIRANGA, Brazil — Ronaldo Macena and Erlan Moraes, traditional riverfolk leaders whose families have lived for generations on the Lourenção Rocks fishery on the Amazon’s Tocantins River, were hopeful in September when a federal judge visited their villages. For several generations, Macena told the…

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